Tide Turn . . .

It's Freya's (Frigg's) day . . . and the Beaver Moon rises in TulseyTown this evening about 5pm in an anticipated clear sky. It's the last of the four consecutive supermoons we've had this year. Why “Beaver” Moon? Many indigenous peoples recognized beavers heading to their water safe dens to wait out the winter to come.

“If you live in a house which is impermeable to the cold winds and storms and difficulties of this world, you will also wall yourself off from the moonlight.” – Jane Hirshfield, The Ink Dark Moon, Vintage, 1990.

No, women aren't likely to "boycott" men — but here's why the idea matters– Amanda Marcotte

If you are feeling out of sync (as am I) with society’s emphasis on partying our way through the holiday season, you are not alone. While society is ringing jingle bells and urging us to buy more and more stuff, we may be sensing an urge to turn inward, against the tide. – Mirabai Starr

Speak of tide turns...

Poet Ted Berrigan, was born on this day in 1934 Providence, Rhode Island. University of Tulsa grad and pal with Tulsa poet Ron Padget and Joe Brainerd, they moved to the lower East Side of NYC becoming part of the New York School of poets and painters.

It's also the birth date of Georgia O'Keeffe. The New York and Taos based painter was born in 1887 Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

We are not self-made, nor independent from one another.

Tide Turn on a Winter Day

Wine dark sea / red dawn sky. / Forever ago a glass calm.

Magenta sails / on a flat earth / incomprehensible as death /

birth bewildering / as the woman bringing it / from wherever the wind is born.

Inconceivable as a round earth / conceived in the imagination /

of a mother's child / on an icy hillside shore /

playing with stones.

– JAB