These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: King Lear , Act 1, Scene 1 The Elizabethans may have thought that eclipses foretold chaos and the overturning of the natural [...]
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Eclipses and other phenomena…..
Posted by Kate Thompson on May 22, 2012
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May Day, music & marmot……
May 1st always feels like the beginning of summer, of many colours green, of music and sunlight and magic. As I drove down the mountain this morning I saw a marmot running up the rocks by the side of the road. I switched on KGNU, the local radio station, and found myself in the middle of passionate [...]
Posted by Kate Thompson on May 1, 2012
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Wind…..
In contrast with snow-silence now comes the wind-screams. All night the wind found some aperture which sounded like a banshee, a chain-saw, a dentist’s drill, the hound of the Baskervilles. All night…. Although Ted Hughes was talking about the Yorkshire moors in his poem Wind, it could be this Colorado mountain too when he says: This [...]
Posted by Kate Thompson on February 22, 2012
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Happy New Year!
Well, if Christmas is about reviewing, New Year (as we return to some semblance of routine and regular life) is about looking ahead, looking into the year in front of us…
Posted by Kate Thompson on January 6, 2012
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The Post-Christmas World
Now Christmas is over for another year…….
Posted by Kate Thompson on December 26, 2011
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Thanksgiving
Who wouldn’t be seduced by the idea of a holiday called Thanksgiving? What’s not to like? But why is it immediately followed by something called Black Friday? Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day in the United States of America – but I don’t see why it shouldn’t be a day for giving thanks wherever we are or [...]
Posted by Kate Thompson on November 23, 2011
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Winter, perhaps……..
Over night the world changes……
Posted by Kate Thompson on October 28, 2011
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Autumn?
It’s autumn here, the aspen are bright gold, there’s fresh snow on the high mountains. Perhaps Keats wrote the definitive poem on Autumn……but do you have a favourite autumn verse? But I’ve just got back from 2 weeks in ………
Posted by Kate Thompson on October 17, 2011
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