Beyond our kennel. Dog Month opens: October 8th 18:20pm. Beyond our kennel. The festival known as Chung Yeung is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth Chinese lunar month, hence it is known as the Double Ninth. It’s a public holiday, this year October 1st. That’s one reason the Hong Kong Occupy action took… Read More
Chicken Busy. Rooster Month; bak lo, the Season of White Dew. “Divinity is knowing where to start.” Our Lost Infantry – Scissor Fight. It’s the Rooster month, the month of Zhong Qiu, that is the Harvest Moon, said to be the brightest and fullest. It’s the counting-up time of the year. A good time to… Read More
Rooster Diary: what to expect in September 2014. Chicken Nuggets. Rooster Month opens: September 8th 02:21am. Chicken Nuggets. Often this time of year feels more like a parting than does the New Year itself. Autumn has a very distinctive taste; endings are beginning just as beginnings are ending. There’s a new school year, a return… Read More
Monkey Diary: what to expect in August 2014. The wrench of the Monkey. Monkey Month opens: August 7th 23:02pm. Clueless in Gaza The Monkey is a rebel, the Water Monkey defiant. Take these qualities together and you have a decision to make: are you part of the problem or part of the solution? There’s always… Read More
Sheep Diary: what to expect in July 2014.Sheep at half the price. Sheep Month opens: July 7th 12:57pm. Sheepish. The Sheep month of a Horse year is a time of co-operation. The Sheep can not help but form teams of which typically the Horse is leader. There’s still plenty of Fire – hard to miss… Read More
It’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. Dedicated to Maurice Willmott. “Late last night I heard the screen door slam and a big yellow taxi took away my old man.” Joni Mitchell. Big Yellow Taxi. The Dark Newt of the Soul. Menorca, Dragon Month, Horse Year. While I’m here I swim daily; a few more lengths… Read More
Horse Diary: what to expect in June 2014. Nags and Hobby Horses. Horse Month opens: June 6th 02:32am. Fire!Fire! A Horse year is inherently fiery and the Horse month of a Horse year doubly so. Consequently, expect Fire to show itself in all the ways Fire does: heat of course but also the slips of… Read More
Snake Diary: what to expect in May 2014. Snakes and Ladders. May 5th 22:16pm until June 6th 02:32 inclusive. It’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. This month is an Earth Snake. The last time the Earth Snake ruled an entire year was 1989. By most accounts that was pretty cataclysmic; as a Tweet correspondent reminded… Read More
Bunny Hop. Fire Rabbit month, Wood Horse year. March 6th 00:09am. Big Light, Big Heat. The placid yin Wood of the Rabbit can be an anti-climax after the drama of the Tiger that opens the year. It’s a bit like the time after a tropical dawn. The Sun rises almost instantaneously, a flag hoist aloft,… Read More
Tiger, Tiger. Fire Tiger month, Wood Horse year. February 5th 06:21am. Big Fire, Big Ice: Big Water. The Tiger opens the year with a burst of Fire. To some extent this is always true because the Tiger is part Fire. In some years this blast of spontaneity, of visibility, of passion is more marked than… Read More
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