I got up early this morning and the quality of the moonlight slanting in from the west was so striking it reminded me of that old barbershop quartet song. Orion appeared above the trees, fully visible for the first time this season. Through a trick of the light, it stood alone. While moonlight and mist obscured most stars, Orion was clear and strong. Even the fuzzy “stars” of his sword were visible. Although generally when it comes to the sky I couldn’t tell Cassiopeia from the Perseid meteor shower, I learned to love this constellation when I was a kid…
Author: Claire
I’m having a bad brain day. Or at least a slow brain morning. More later, but in the meantime have a Chihuahua puppy fighting a Great Dane. Source
Sara Hoyt relates the horrors her sons experienced with grade-school #MeToo and ponders the impossibility of healthy relationships and healthy children ever arising out of such mad mentality. (Via Wendy McElroy)
Very long but very worth it. Kent Sorenson was a cocky political rookie being courted for his influence in the Iowa caucuses. He switched loyalties from Bachmann to Paul — and committed a greedy rookie error. He went to federal prison for corruption. It was a real eye opener.
… because we’re a month or more away from our first frost. But after a rainy September we’re in the midst of mild, sunny days. Sunny days have meant only one thing to me all summer: Accomplish work on the house. We (and I) did enough of that to turn Ye Olde Wreck officially into the Mo Saoirse Hermitage, but there’s still a bit of this, bit of that. I’ve begun each dry morning with a to-do list. Yesterday I was good and did everything I planned. Today … well, I got started, though I ended up doing a different…