Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Strawberry Moon<\/p>\n
Had another bowl of strawberries fresh from the patch, grown under the Strawberry Moon.\u00a0 There’s something special about food that comes from your own land, nurtured by your own hands, a something special beyond the nutritional and taste benefits.\u00a0 It relates to be who you are because of where you are.\u00a0 We’re a Seven Oaks family and you can’t be a Seven Oaks family if you live in Ohio.<\/p>\n
I had another frisson of this yesterday when I sat in the Minnesota Environmental Partnership offices and looked across the conference table to a black and white photograph of a boundary waters lake.\u00a0 Since I shifted my political work to the environmental and away from the economic four years ago, I have sat in meeting after meeting (the unglamorous fact of political life) dedicated to making this state’s overall environment better in some way.\u00a0 Seeing that photograph as we discussed initiatives for energy in Minnesota, the context for our work snapped into place.<\/p>\n
We’re talking about our home, this place, the place where we are who we are because we are here.\u00a0 You could say a gestalt of the work gelled.<\/p>\n
Been a little down since yesterday’s stop by the policeman.\u00a0 It embarrasses me, as it is supposed to do, and calls the rest of my life into question, which it is not.\u00a0 Then, my Latin tutoring session today found me floundering, wondering where my mind had been when the rest of me engaged this week’s translation from English to Latin.\u00a0 Mix it up with the fact that I missed my nap yesterday and my exercise.\u00a0 Result:\u00a0 glum. In spite of the sun.<\/p>\n
So. Exercise now.\u00a0 It always makes me feel better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Strawberry Moon Had another bowl of strawberries fresh from the patch, grown under the Strawberry Moon.\u00a0 There’s something special about food that comes from your own land, nurtured by your own hands, a something special beyond the nutritional and taste benefits.\u00a0 It relates to be who you are because of where you are.\u00a0 … Continue reading Minnesota: Where We Are<\/span>