Yellow Lunar Seed - Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 16

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Yellow Lunar Seed

There is a Time of Year that lies yawning –

Stretching the Space between Seasons

Days – Weeks of Promise when, depending on the Solstice

We stand between cold Dread and warm Anticipation

There is a Time of Year that takes the plant Roots deep –

Makes its Moves from inner Signals

Cosmic Calls of ice-filled Lakes –

Frost – Cold –Wind –Snow and Rain

 Skies of November resemble a Day in March

When grey Clouds give no Comfort or Promise of Warmth

Finally, winter loses Strength –

A Seed begins its brave invisible

 Ascent to early Suns too pale for warming –

Only Faith supports our Skin and Bones

Now chilled and blue with Longing

For spring the winter’s Damage to atone

There is a Time of Year that shivers

While we, like Children, short-sighted

And burning with Desire cannot wait

For howling, whistling Winds

To blow away the old and bring upon the New

The autumnal Days of early spring are rude –

They tease and taunt without Remorse

There is a Time of Year too short to name until …

Azure fills a Sky of cotton Clouds –

Jonquil Petals open with the Violet

Green Grass quivers with the Flights of little Bees

Whose Legs are yellow Pollen laden

Daffodil sits up with Hyacinth upon the Hill

The Moth awakes to fly on parchment Wing

The Seasons turn – Gaia smiles – naming Spring.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Dr. Danielle N. Lee

 Danielle N. Lee is an American visiting assistant professor of biology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, best known for her science blogging and outreach efforts focused on increasing minority participation in STEM fields. Her research interests focus on the connections between ecology and evolution and its contribution to animal behavior.

Academic work

Originally from South Memphis, Tennessee, she intended to go into veterinary medicine. While she was rejected from veterinary school four times, she began studying olfactory behavior in meadow voles and found her passion to pursue academic research. In her 2011 thesis, Lee proposed a new system of describing animal personality traits from more subjective, emotional descriptors, to observational adjectives.

As of 2017, Lee teaches mammalian biology and urban ecology at Southern Illinois University. She specializes in rodent behavior in both urban and rural settings. Her current focus of study is the African giant pouched rat, examining the extent to which they exhibit behavioral syndromes and the potential role of genetics in these behavioral differences. In 2012, Lee traveled to and lived in Tanzania to collect data about the African giant pouched rat for the "Wild Life of Our Homes" project. Centering on female rat biology, Lee aims to increase research about female biology that has been understudied in the animal kingdom.

Blogging

From 2006 to 2011, Lee published the blog Urban Science Adventures! before joining the Scientific American Blog Network, where she wrote The Urban Scientist blog from 2011 to 2016. Through her posts, Lee covered her experience as a research scientist, issues relating to STEM diversity, and urban ecology (what she calls "science you can see in your backyard"). Her blog aimed to connect the scientific community with under-served and underrepresented populations, primarily African-American youth, through scientific explanations that were easily understandable.

Controversy

In 2013, Lee was invited to contribute to the science website Biology Online by a pseudonymous editor named "Ofek". When Lee declined to contribute to the website without compensation, Ofek allegedly responding by asking whether Lee was "an urban scientist or an urban whore". Lee rebuked Ofek on The Urban Scientist; however, the editor-in-chief of Scientific American, Mariette DiChristina, quickly removed Lee's response from the network. Although the removal of the blog post was allegedly due to legal concerns, Scientific American was widely seen as censoring Lee, causing outrage. Ultimately, Ofek was fired by Biology Online because of the incident. Fallout related to the incident also led to the resignation of the Scientific American's blog editor, Bora Zivkovic.

Outreach efforts

Lee's outreach efforts focus on sharing science with the general public and the under-served, particularly through outdoor experiences and social media outlets. Lee founded the National Science and Technology News Service, a now-defunct media advocacy group focused on increasing interest in STEM and science news coverage within the African-American community. She has received many honors for her efforts to increase minority participation in STEM fields.*

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_N._Lee

KAN

Kin 184: Yellow Lunar Seed

I polarize in order to target

Stabilizing awareness

I seal the input of flowering

With the lunar tone of challenge

I am guided by the power of intelligence

I am a galactic activation portal

Enter me.

The distinction that keeps most people from realizing their potential is that we live in a state of mental oppression and intimidation.*

*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.

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