HeyJaredIn Search of a Wisewoman
Having lived long and not necessarily well-lived life I remain incapable of censoring wry commentary on my microcosm and the greater world. An intentional eremite embracing the Tree of Life, a symbol across history & cultures - we are all one family.
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October (opens the original)
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October, the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, from the Latin meaning eight in the Roman calendar before January and February were added. We in the northern hemisphere might quibble about having two of what for many are endless months some try to escape, know that October can be a spectacular month of blazing colours as our maples put on their best show, echoing the firey colours of the opal birthstone. It is a month when the air chills and thoughts of gathering in fill one’s da
Working Out - part 2 (opens the original)
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When one says they are working out others understand the concept of intentional physical exercise usually involving a gym membership, machines overwhich others have willingly sweated, and shelling out for a membership. The observation that someone is looking fit often comes with the question of, or answer that, “they’ve been working out.” In years past hearing the statement of “working out” meant that someone had hired themselves out for supplementary income beyond just keeping the home fires bu
Working Out (opens the original)
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My predecessors did not need a gym membership. Even if such places existed, they would have had no time nor money for such frivolities. Every day was a workout just doing the tasks of basic survival. Manual labour accompanied every day’s routines. My early childhood was an indoctrination in chopping wood for the fires that fueled cooking and hauling pails of oil for the heater in the centre of a 100 year old log house where waking to hoar frost on the nails was a regular winter morning observati
First Frost (opens the original)
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Every morning in the +four decades of inhabiting this house, begins with the same ritual of opening the drapes on the north facing window and reading the mountain. My farm origins formed my observations but maybe it is global warming changing jet streams as I am less predictive in what I see. I did, however, see the houses across the street had frost on their west-facing sides. Jack was busy last night in giving his first warning. The grass wasn’t touched but in subsequent mornings, he will have
Seasonal Signs (opens the original)
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The seasonal changes are sometimes subtle. Sometimes it is because of distraction as life is so busy but sometimes the signs just seem to creep up. Were those leaves turning colour last week? Was I looking for a warmer sweater yesterday and realizing I’d been wearing one for days? There are years when one wakes to a killing and unexpected frost and is then propelled into dealing with the results. Such an odd year this year with the unsummer of wildfire smoke and excessive heat that put paid to e
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