75\u00a0 bar falls 29.78\u00a0 2mph\u00a0 SSE dew-point 52\u00a0 Summer, warm and sunny<\/p>\n
Waxing Gibbous Thunder Moon<\/p>\n
These are the dog days, so called because the Romans believed that the bright Sirius, now in night sky, added its heat to the sun, magnifying Sol’s effect. (affect=verb, effect=noun most of the time.\u00a0 I have trouble with this one.)<\/p>\n
While in the dog days, thunder storms are welcome.\u00a0 They drain the heat up into the atmosphere where it cools into clouds; rain drops form and, if they get heavy enough, fall to earth.\u00a0 The whole process results in cooler near earth weather.\u00a0 Like today.\u00a0 Yesterday in the 90’s with a dewpoint in the high 70’s; today 75 with a dew-point in the 50’s.<\/p>\n
During the dog days my gardening energy declines and I work on inside projects like the Twin Cities\/Minnesota UU history I’m crafting right now.<\/p>\n
It is so easy, to walk the aisle in an American grocery store.\u00a0 So easy to take the abundance and its affordability for granted.\u00a0 Those of us raised in the US since WWII have not known want, at least those of us in the working class and up economically.\u00a0 Mercados take the place of grocery stores in much of the world.\u00a0 We visit farmer’s markets for the quaint experience of buying food from those who grow or raise it.\u00a0 Most of the world knows only that or their own garden, their small chicken coop.\u00a0 A few still hunt and gather, yes, but most of the world has entered some form of economy based either on barter or cash.<\/p>\n
Millions have no food to buy, no clean water to drink, no sanitation to stop disease, no medical services.\u00a0 We have healthy water, food to put in a grocery cart, plumbing and doctors.\u00a0 No, everyone does not have access to all of these, but at least here it is because the culture is too indolent or too callous; in other places the services themselves are simply not available.<\/p>\n
It’s worth it, now and then, to pause in the aisle of your favorite grocery and say a prayer of thanks to mother earth and to the dumb luck that put you here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
75\u00a0 bar falls 29.78\u00a0 2mph\u00a0 SSE dew-point 52\u00a0 Summer, warm and sunny Waxing Gibbous Thunder Moon These are the dog days, so called because the Romans believed that the bright Sirius, now in night sky, added its heat to the sun, magnifying Sol’s effect. (affect=verb, effect=noun most of the time.\u00a0 I have trouble with this … Continue reading Stop in the Aisle, Say a Prayer<\/span>