This week I have been pulled into an unsettling spiral that set me to thinking about darkness and death even in this season of joy and franticness. Despite the piles of Christmas cards and the antics of a kitten discovering his first box of wrapping paper supplies, I felt oddly bereft and adrift. [...]
Winter strike zones shrink as water temperatures drop. The colder the water for most species, the smaller the strike zone, making it even more important for an “in your face” presentation. Baitfish continually swim, with brief periods of stopping. The problem with most baitfish imitations is that they only look natural when they’re moving. As soon as they’re stopped, they sink to the bottom and lay on their sides…not so with a shrimp. In nature, shrimp sit on the bottom, bury in the mud or grass, and basically do nothing. They’re not swimming most the time like most baitfish, but do drift with the current. Artificial shrimp, like those from DOA Lures can mimic this crustacean to the letter. This bait can stay in the strike zone as long as desired, giving fish an opportunity to eat it. Some new suspending baitfish imitations like the Rapala Twitchin’ Rap and the MirrOlure MirrOdine and MirrOminnow can be worked slowly enough and “hover” in the water column for a simila
This is a very special audio post for you. I really didn't have the words to say it in a text post because its something just too complicated and soulful to simply type out. I didn't really do a great job of saying it either but hey, thats just who I am...
Thursday 5th June 2008, Edge Hill University,UK The SOLSTICE Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) at Edge Hill University is pleased to announce its 3rd international conference. Building on the success of the 2007 conference, which attracted over 200 delegates from across the UK and as far away as Russia and New Zealand, the 2008 conference will focus on the relationships between research, innovation, and development. There will be a distinct spotlight on the concepts of learning environments and their elearning components - as they exist now, and as they might transpire as time progresses - to respond to some compelling and perhaps pressing questions: What is informing our current and future conceptions of elearning and learning environments? What theoretical and evidence bases are structuring our thinking, policy making and implementations? How might we juxtapose the physical, virtual and cognitive dimensions of learning environments? On what base
Paula sent me a link to the video by Straight No Chaser, a male a capella group from Indiana. Very impressive and fun. (And very clever how they morph several Christmas carols together) Also the group stopped at a Hardee's...
Smoke, night, the dark lunar fortnight, and the six months of southern solstice of the sun; departing by these paths, the righteous person attains lunar light and reincarnates.”
- the Bhagavad Gita
Buenos Aires - What does one do to celebrate the Winter Solstice? In doing a bit of net surfing, I came across numerous customs, many of which had to do with food, but the gist of it all seemed to come down to - eat well, eat hearty, enjoy. I can get behind that… and here, we don’t have to run out and shovel snow after we eat. Life is good. Some of this weekend’s menu is based on recipes that I got from other chefs or sources… to be acknowledged as we go…
Looking for a traditional solstice soup, I came across the Chinese tradition of a dumpling or wonton soup… and originally I was going to use something in that vein as our first course. But when I looked at the menu as a whole, it just didn’t fit with anything else that we were having
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Le solstice fait parfaitement son boulot et nous pouvons ressentir cela de nombreuses manières. Les énergies masculines du solstice descendent profond… comme les lames d’un rotor, elles creusent
en profondeur dans ce qui traîne encore à l’intérieur de nous et le remontent à la surface pour évaluation et élimination. Ajoutons à cela l’énergie rétrograde de Mercure, et par conséquent nous
sommes obligés de retourner vers tout ce qui requiert de l’attention et dont nous devons tenir compte. Ce solstice particulier apporte un vigoureux coup de poing… car plus notre vibration est
élevée plus nous pouvons ressentir intensément les énergies influentes. Mais la bonne nouvelle est que nous avons déjà tant libéré et tant évacué, que ce qui reste n’est que miettes. Et cela
signifie que la durée de l’effet de ces énergies est très abrégée. Si nous sommes capables d’en recueillir les bénéfices, nous pouvons nou
Kitigan Zibi cultural Centre vandalised.Aboriginal day marred for Que. community after white supremacist vandalism."...Aside from the youth incidents, she said a recent land claim was a source of contention. Last fall, the Kitigan Zibi First Nation was successful in a land claim for a piece of property in the heart of Maniwaki, Tenasco said."Kitigan Zibi homepageArsonists in Quebec targetting Jewish cottages.(Mon., June 18)"A Jewish orthodox camp in the Lower Laurentians was the target of another suspicious fire -- the third in almost a month -- on Sunday, leaving members of Montreal's Jewish community fearing for their safety.A private summer cottage at the Val-David, Que., camp was found burned to the ground early Sunday morning and five other properties were vandalized. No one was injured in the fire. Police say it appears there was an attempt to set at least one other home ablaze."--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Trea
Links for this Post: Solstice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Today is the Summer Solstice -- the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Now all the days will get a bit shorter.
These Solstices happen twice a year. The beginning of the Winder Solstice marks the day when all the days begin getting longer again.
I've always thought it was odd that summer begins with the trend going the other way, toward winter. And that winter also begins with the trend going the other way.
This is the nature of cycles. Just when things appear best, they've reached the peak and the situation is deteriorating.
Native Art shorts:Another Native-oriented blog:Shmohawk's Shmorg."A moderated blog on Aboriginal journalism and other stuff."Daphne Odjig recently received a Governor-general's award and will soon be presented with the Order of British Columbia.What Happened to Sacred Circle Gallery? (Now called Daybreak Star Cultural Center)San Marcos Record article."San Marcos (Texas) — A statue of Tonkawa Indian Chief Placido will honor some of the area’s earlier inhabitants on a prime spot in City Park... In March, the parks and recreation advisory board approved the location on the condition that organizers of a stalled effort to erect a statue of Saint Mark relinquish their claim to the site.""Legacy and Legend: Images of Indians from Four Centuries""In recognition of the 400th anniversary of the meeting of European and Native American peoples, a new exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens will look at how North American Indians have been depicted in art, p
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