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July 2009

Gone blueberry picking…

July 10, 2009

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Did I hear the word pie?  My grandfather would never get through a holiday meal with out making the comment “I never knew a Reeve that didn’t like pie.”  I relish memories like that.
Picking berries is a great way to rediscover memories.  The mind tends to wander and lost memories get a chance [...]

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…Soul Adventurer

July 9, 2009

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When following one’s dreams quickly the reality sinks in that the whole show has a director beyond our conscious control.   The image of entering into the forest or the dark wood, as in Dante, is a fitting analogy.  Surprises await at every turn.
While much of the attention in popular culture given [...]

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Summertime

July 8, 2009

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We have had so much rain over the last month that it seems like Summer has had a tough time getting Spring to move on out.  But summer camps have begun, the sleeping patterns of the kids has changed, and when I look to the Western sky at 9pm I can [...]

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The Peacock

July 6, 2009

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Many discussions in our home surround the topic of color. Many of the discussions focus on color theory as it applies to painting.  Here I’m laying out a series of quotes, some food for thought, that takes a decided turn toward the symbolic.
“It was not the tail alone that was [...]

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To Scythe

July 5, 2009

I always find it hard to pick my favorite season, but clearly one of my favorite times in the summer revolves around pulling the scythe out of the barn, finding the sharpening stone, and heading down the back hill to make some hay.
About five days each year are committed to this task.  The hay is [...]

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Putting a finger on the problem…

July 4, 2009

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Everybody has an opinion of what’s wrong with the show.  We can’t help at times to scan our surroundings and want to proclaim like Marcellus in Hamlet, “something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”  Our instinct on the matter is nothing new.  In many ways the historical conflicts and schisms [...]

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Gnaw

July 3, 2009

In the back of the Elementary Latin Dictionary is a table of roots where you will find this curious combination gna- strung together.  Gna- forms the root of our gnosis and know. And gnaw perfectly captures the process of transferring energy through the body.
I was keyed into this root by Charles Olson who often jotted [...]

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The Objective Psyche – take two

July 2, 2009

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It’s always a cool thing when the narrative of what one is attempting to articulate seems to fall into ones hands on it’s own accord.  As a followup to the previous post concerning the objective psyche, and the “what if” I posed, this nugget jumped from the page.  It tosses the [...]

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The Objective Psyche

July 1, 2009

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“The alchemical opus must be understood as a phenomenology of the objective, autonomous psyche enacting its drama of transformation on the stage provided by the material world, the objective nature of which must remain unknown in order for the play to continue.” Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel, pg.36
The subtlety of the wind, [...]

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