For me, the stakes are much higher now that I've been able to say what's untenable. From my perspective, I need to either get this fixed, once and for all, or stop trying to fix it. For both of us, we can't keep living in 'I wonder if today's the day we stop trying ( Read more... )

It's not as dark out as it should be. Moonset was over an hour ago, a second-night thumbnail sliver turning golden brown as I left Best Buy at 9 pm. Now it's midnight but the sky above our woods is still light. Cloud cover? Sky glow? I don't know ( Read more... )

 Amazing day Saturday -- plenty of good food for mind and body. Followed by plenty of good ritual that feeds the soul. I'd been at this ritual before, a few years ago. I recalled that the Deity invoked seemed actually to be present. I remembered that some of what the aspected Deity said struck a resonance in me.

Somehow I didn't expect that, as the ( Read more... )

Dear Husband noticed his // well, our // cellphone bill this week. It was high -- about five times as high as we expected.  So he looked further, and discovered that the last several months have been equally high. This is when I learned that he has set the bill to automatically pay itself from his creditcard, so he never has any awareness of the ( Read more... )

 Today somebody asked me if I was offended with them. I had to think about that a moment, because yes, I was -- but I hadn't acknowledged it even to myself. Then I looked closer and realized that my internal reaction (you know, the one I hadn't noticed) was way out of proportion to the little thing they did that I found so obnoxious ( Read more... )

 Begin with the end in mind ( Read more... )

I'm finding myself surprisingly curmudgeonly about the state of my country and its assorted incarnations of mass culture.

Everywhere these days I hear far more judgmentalness than seems appropriate or useful. Reminds me of a long-dead elderly relative who would ask to be taken for a "nice Sunday drive" and spend the whole time praising or blaming ( Read more... )

Wondering why I was having such a hard time choosing travel dates for the annual migration from the frozen North to warm water and the sailboat. As my resistance grew, some events occurred in the region of Central America where the boat now is, but Dear Husband found those in the category of "these things happen, even though tragic" and went ahead ( Read more... )

How lovely to have the Full Moon and the Autumnal Equinox coinciding ( Read more... )

New experiences, experiments ... and challenges ( Read more... )