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Imbolc, in the belly, comes next week, February 1st.\u00a0 It is the celebration of the quickening of the ewe’s and the freshening of their milk, providing a much needed respite from winter stores among the ancient Celts.\u00a0 More significant to me it is also the celebration of the triple goddess, Bridgit, goddess of hearth, smithy and poetry.\u00a0 Look for more information on the 1st day of February.<\/p>\n
Today is a doing, outside and out in the world errand day.\u00a0 Weekends still inhabit the same free, but free to do domestic things that they have for all my life.\u00a0 Strange that the rhythms have not changed for me, but they have not.\u00a0 I did get groceries yesterday and today will do some makeup chores and other thises and thates.<\/p>\n
The unrest in the Middle East shows the threadbare nature of the Realist school of diplomacy.\u00a0 In this approach, think Kissinger among others, the best you can hope for in enemy territory is a regime you can influence.\u00a0 Realism gave us the Shah of Iran.\u00a0 Saddam Hussein.\u00a0 A stubbornly prickly Israel.\u00a0 Mubarak in Egypt.\u00a0 The Saud’s in Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 It also prompted us to side the with the corrupt regime of southern Vietnam against the communist north.\u00a0 This is a bankrupt policy stance and nothing shows it so as the fervor for democracy or at least different tyrants in the Middle East this week.\u00a0 We end up on the side of the brutal, the crazy and the meglomaniacal.<\/p>\n
No tyrants for me today.\u00a0 JIF peanut butter, ranch dressing and grapefruit.\u00a0 Forgot’em last night night.\u00a0 And fixing that damned printer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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