Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
Came across this beautiful, intense, gentle to crackling performance of Kalinka, (the name means “red berry),” a Russian folk song, on youtube.

Just imagine! We human beings, even as small children, can express in utter, individual, disciplined abandon, while moving in concert with others. We can! Some do!


AGREED!
As you see here, Malilda is ahead of the others. However, when I unboxed her, she was white, already large, and bent over every which way, so much did her burgeoning self resist dark confinement. When planted, and placed in a sunny window, Matilda straightened up with two days, turned green on the third, and, as of two days ago, this! Since that time, it looks like nothing is happening, but you know damn well that she’s getting ready to burst into bloom.
As ever I bow to her, and Mother Nature’s mysterious regenerative capacity, as we await the darkest, holiest moment of the year, 10:27 pm EDT, December 21, 2023: Winter Solstice.

”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
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Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
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