{"id":63190,"date":"2026-01-07T06:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63190"},"modified":"2026-01-07T07:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:14:37","slug":"seed-keepers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63190","title":{"rendered":"Seed-Keepers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yule and the Moon of New Beginnings<\/p>\n

Wednesday gratefuls: Tara and Eleanor. Vince and Arjean. The snowblower finds a new home. Dangerous Fire weather. The Dog run. Shadow, the snuggle bunny. Ruth learning a new job. Gabe finished his jigsaw puzzle. My boy comes on the 14th. MVP.<\/p>\n

Sparks of Joy and Awe: Shrimp and White Bean Soup<\/p>\n

Life Kavannah: Wu Wei\u00a0 \u00a0 Shadow, my Wu Wei mistress<\/p>\n

Year Kavannah: Creativity.\u00a0 \u00a0Yetziratiut.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cInspiration exists, but it has to find you working.\u201d\u00a0\u2015<\/em>\u00a0Pablo Picasso<\/em><\/p>\n

Week Kavannah:\u00a0 Patience.\u00a0 Savlanut.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tarot: Back at it soon<\/p>\n

One brief shining: In the first week of January-January!-we have no Snow, down the hill Denver temperatures have been in the seventies, as the onrush of a changing climate washes over us even in the mid-continent and high up in the Mountains while sea level cities and nations watch salt Water fill municipal Water systems, subways flood, and the center will not hold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hard to sort out the emotions. Despair as the World burns, Carbon emissions continue to hit record highs. Anger and deep sadness at the politicians spinning the clock backwards, disorienting even the most optimistic. Frustration and rage at matters like economic injustice, bigotry, infrastructure side lined while science and medicine lose momentum due to budget cuts. Melancholy over a life’s work shunted into a back alley of history.\u00a0No need for doom scrolling when reading the front page of any newspaper accomplishes the same task.<\/p>\n

Yet. Shadow returned home a more snuggly, biddable Dog. Our relationship strengthened. I made a White Bean and Shrimp soup yesterday. My son has a short visit planned this month. Paul and Tom have a visit planned for my birthday. Pain is gone from left hip, lower back, and leg. Shadow Mountain home is warm and book filled.<\/p>\n

Yet. My sister Mary has a chance to return to her first love, library science, in a special project for the University of Melbourne. She’s settling into a diverse neighborhood along Sydney Road. My brother Mark has worked his first full calendar year in the sands of Araby.<\/p>\n

Yet. The Lodgepoles grow. The Aspens clone. Mule Deer and Elk Cows carry the next generation of their species. Maxwell Creek rests, frozen for now, waiting for Spring. The Mountains hold us all in their valleys, slopes, and peaks.<\/p>\n

Yet. Democratic socialists have won Mayoral races in Boston, NYC, Seattle. The No King’s movement has grown. Approval ratings for Red Tie Guy’s command of the economy, his gunboat diplomacy, even his immigration policy have tanked. His own Presidential ratings as well.<\/p>\n

While those of us who embrace economic fairness, ethnic and\u00a0 gender and religious pluralism, globalism, a sustainable human presence on Mother Earth have neither given up nor backed away from the hard work of readying ourselves for the next era.<\/p>\n

If you’re one of us, a Seed-Keeper, I hope you can live your best life right now. And. That part of it be sustaining the vision of a world ruled by love, justice, and compassion rather than greed, lust, and the will to power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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