November 2017 – The Motley Moose

Yule Tide

November 30, 2017 Diana in NoVa 11

Goddess women invoke a male deity–and get a Yule surprise! In ones and twos the Circle sisters arrived at the house on the evening of Winter Solstice. They swept through the door, bringing gusts […]

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 […]

Fighting Back: Sen. Bennet – “This week, we’ll need to raise our voices and fight for our future.”

November 26, 2017 JanF 1

The weekly Fighting Back post is also an Open News Thread. The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Senatore Michael Bennet of Colorado. (Senator Michael Bennet (CO) delivered the Democratic Weekly Address, giving his […]

Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Nov. 26th through Dec. 2nd

November 25, 2017 JanF 139

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]

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 […]

Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Nov. 19th through Nov. 25th

November 18, 2017 JanF 89

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]

Fighting Back: Rep. DelBene – “The Republican legislation is a bill of callous decisions and missed opportunities.”

November 18, 2017 JanF 3

The weekly Fighting Back post is also an Open News Thread. The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington state. (In this week’s Democratic Party Address, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene of […]

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 […]

Entering the Quiet Time as We Leaf the Light Behind

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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 [...]

“Give Thanks for the Blessings”

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August 1, 2024 3

Happy Lammas!! Hey, wait just a minute! Those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all! Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the [...]

Blackness

Passing

July 5, 2024 4

Everyone says I look like my father. Well, everyone “below stairs,” as it were, and even then they speak of it only in whispers. As for guests, the naked shock on their faces as [...]

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April Showers are Bringing May Flowers!

May 1, 2024 4

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 [...]

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Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

March 19, 2024 3

Today, March 19th, at 8:06pm 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 [...]