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TGIF!

December 15, 2017 Batch 4

Morning meese… It’s sad that our daily life has come to having to fight bigotry, misogyny and a myriad of other terrible things on a daily basis. It’s disheartening and depressive to say the least. […]

VNV Tuesday: Alabama by the Numbers 12/12/17

December 12, 2017 DoReMI 12

I’ve never been to Alabama. I have no family in Alabama (although my since-passed aunt and uncle retired there). To the best of my knowledge, I don’t know anyone in Alabama. Despite all that, I […]

TGIF!

December 8, 2017 Batch 9

Morning Meese… I’ve been trying to keep my anger under control by taking time away from everything. With problems in my daily life controlling that anger is getting harder and what is […]

VNV Tuesday – Preaching to the Choir 12/5/17

December 5, 2017 DoReMI 12

I’m not gonna lie…as I followed the unfolding of the Senate passage of the #GOPTaxScam last Friday night, I became so stressed, upset, and angry that I ended up throwing up in my kitchen sink. […]

TGIF

December 1, 2017 Batch 5

Morning meese! What we are going through with this supposed government is so far beyond the pale it’s hard to discern up from down and down from up. You all know I’m […]

VNV Tuesday: Giving Tuesday 11/28/17

November 28, 2017 DoReMI 8

Giving Tuesday is not just a marketing ploy like Black Friday or Cyber Monday. It was started six years ago: Created by the team at the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at the 92nd […]

TGIF

November 24, 2017 Batch 9

Good morning meese… This is going to be a brief one…good old lackadaisical Thanksgiving…Forgot yesterday was Thursday ..oops :) Well it looks like bobby-three-sticks didn’t hear our call for action for any perp walks Wednesday. […]

VNV Tuesday – An Inside Baseball Look at the DNC, from and by the DNC

November 21, 2017 DoReMI 12

What follows is a post I started a few weeks ago, but I haven’t seen this information discussed much, if at all, so I’m going ahead with what may well be old news. Fierce

The last Sunday Breakfast

November 19, 2017 Michael Holmans 8

I regret to say that this will be the last diary in this form. The immediate reason for this is that I have other engagements on the next two Saturdays which will preclude my being […]

TGIF

November 17, 2017 Batch 9

Morning meese… Life is a hard as hell at all times but especially what we’ve had to endure the last 18 months and more to the point the last 12. I thought I was going […]

April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

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May 1, 2025 3

At Winter Solstice, the light begins to return – gradually, the memory of the long nights fades until the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox. From that point on, the light returns more [...]

Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

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March 19, 2025 5

Tomorrow, March 20th, at 2:01am Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]

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Spring is in the air!

February 1, 2025 3

At the beginning of February, when much of the north appears frozen and lifeless, there are stirrings below the surface and in the sky. The light is returning; today there is nearly an hour more [...]

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Welcome, Returning Light!

December 21, 2024 3

The winter solstice “occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, the term is [...]

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Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

September 22, 2024 3

An equinox occurs twice a year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the Sun being vertically above a point on the Equator. The latitudes +L [...]