2017 – Page 3 – Motley Moose

Fighting Back: Congresswoman Jackie Speier – #MeToo Congress Act

December 2, 2017 JanF 2

The weekly Fighting Back post is also an Open News Thread. The Weekly Democratic Party Address was delivered by Congresswoman Jackie Speier of California. (In this week’s address, Speier highlights the ‘Me Too’ movement and […]

TGIF

December 1, 2017 Batch 5

Morning meese! What we are going through with this supposed government is so far beyond the pale it’s hard to discern up from down and down from up. You all know I’m […]

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 […]

Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

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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 [...]

Yes, it WAS a Wonderful Life!

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February 28, 2024 9

Imbolc, 2006. L to R, Moira, Beryl, Jenny, and Yrs Truly Looking back, it strikes me as odd that my 33-year-friendship with Beryl began when I met her friend Jenny, rather than with Beryl [...]

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Spring is in the air!

February 1, 2024 3

At the beginning of February, when much of the north appears frozen and lifeless, there are stirrings below the surface and in the sky. The light is returning; today there is nearly an hour more [...]

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Welcome, Returning Light!

December 21, 2023 5

The winter solstice “occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. Though the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, the term is [...]

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Ghost Bark

October 29, 2023 8

(Excerpt from Rowena Wentworth’s journal) 16 October 2023 I heard it again this morning. It was a bark, just a single bark, but it woke me up from a night’s sleep. I [...]