Feb 2
“This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.” — Phil Connors
In the wild, the male groundhog comes out of hibernation mid-winter, only to look in on females in his territory and mark their burrows off limits to interlopers. Thus relieved, he returns to his den to resume his winter siesta in peace, until spring mating season.
“February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.”
Randeep HoodaIt
We don’t rely on celebrity groundhogs to predict that happy day. The Phils and the Willies, et al, are hucksters for their respective media markets. Our go-to forecaster is in the wild. Thank you kindly for you participation in this epic event. Wherever you are, may every new day be warmer than a winter of discontent.
Feb 1
“I pray this winter be gentle and kind—a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” — John Geddes
The buzz we’re picking up from the grass roots sounds promising as prayer. Tomorrow morning’s shadow play tells whether global climate changes to a kinder and gentler state on Earth than prevails on Mars, sooner or later.
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
Japanese Proverb
Jan 30
“Pale January lay / In its cradle day by day / Dead or living, hard to say.” ― Alfred Austin
No word yet on whether the official shadow will show up for the rapidly approaching prognostication on TV. If so, underground poetry could face six more weeks under the weather.
“Every winter has its spring.”
Hudson Tuttle
Jan 28
“January … The sky is low. / The wind is gray. / The radiator / Purrs all day.” — John Updike
We’re tapping the burrow for possible leaks about balancing the bipolar temperament of a tilted globe in the sway of a gob of gaslight. Watch this space for any signs of a bad moon waning.
“The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.”
― Jack Hanna
Jan 26
“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.” ― Kellie Elmore
Welcome to our countdown to the day of reckoning. During this week, we’re keeping an ear to the ground, listening for leaks of a possible early end to cold affronts felt in the global village neighborhoods of Canada, Greenland, et al. Watch this space.
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
― Kenneth Grahame
Dec 19
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” ― Herman Melville
In the twinkling of December’s Eves, happy miracles in the offing, we search our archive for answers to the question: If the laws of karma have us do it again, how would we face the morning after?
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
— Victor Hugo
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Dec 11
“The nature of people demands that most of them be engaged in the most frivolous possible activities – like making money.” — Marshall McLuhan
This work explores the nature of serendipity in the leaves of a money tree that, we believe, bestows largesse on all we survey.
All money is a matter of belief.
— Adam Smith
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Nov 14
“All dreams spin out from the same web.” — Hopi proverb
This work beats the shamanic drum of the Great Spirit that inhabits the dreamscapes of the free and the brave. Any similarity between spirits of dreamscapes and their shadows on landscapes is auditory.
Word to the wise: It would not be wise to tune-in to shamanic drumming on YouTube before reading at least the quotes in this post, lest you get carried away.
The drumming is not “making music.” It is a means of opening a doorway through sound.
— Robert Moss, Conscious Dreaming
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Oct 26
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.” — Edward de Bono
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