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Harvest Moon (opens the original)
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This month’s full moon is the Harvest Moon, near to the equinox as it is. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, it is so called as the full moon’s light helped farmers to keep working, to let them harvest after sundown and reap the last of their crops while they could, before the threat of freeze. Harvests are a time of abundance and gratitude as well as practical preparations for the winter to come. Full moons celebrate culminations, ripeness, and endings. There are all kinds of celebrations and f
On practicing (opens the original)
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Writing is a practice. When we turn up to write, we are practicing a craft and art, as well as a way of being. We might have ambitions for this writing, or we might be more interested in exploring worlds, interior and exterior and imagined. We might come to our process with a sense of play, or we might feel more attached to the outcome, which can bring a range of emotions: longing, anguish, disappointment, anticipation. We may be writing to know ourselves a little better, when we seek to explore
On beginning (opens the original)
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We have crossed into a new season. The clocks might not have gone back yet, but already the air feels different. The light is a little gentler. Leaves are beginning to turn, at least where I am. It is barely autumn, but I can feel it in my bones. We have been preparing for this change, and now it is here. How are you feeling? My little Blue House is ready for work: the things of summer are put away to lighten my mental load, to thin distractions. To keep me present. I have made some plans on big
On balance & the equinox (opens the original)
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Today is the equinox when day and light are in balance, as we tip toward autumn or spring in our hemispheres. Having considered that we might lighten our load through packing a new bag and planning our next steps in new shoes, today we think about our balance: where are we light and where are we dark? How does a word like “balance” strike you? You may think about “work-life balance”, an often unattainable ideal that might have us questioning our abilities and resources. Work and life are rarely
Where are you going? (opens the original)
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You’ve got your new bag. Now it’s time for a new pair of shoes. Can you remember how it felt to be fitted, that metal contraption that measured our growing feet? (Apparently, it’s called a Brannock Device. I remember standing in it in my little socks, a man at my feet moving all the slides and levers.) What a ritual! Remember the process of putting our little wiggly feet into hard, solid shoes that were maybe a little too big or too long, despite the Brannock, leaving room to grow? Maybe there w
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