Articles & Essays

It’s Critical

As I’ve watched the development of the Covid-19 storm, from my little hidey-hole on the high plains.  I began to wonder, what happened to critical thinking and critical analysis? When did we lose the capacity to evaluate the evidence and discern manipulation, error, hypocrisy and bias? It does not take a close examination of the […]

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Point of No Return

“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.”  ― Arnold Joseph Toynbee Collapse is imminent. It’s not if, it’s when and we are on the precipice. I’m not saying that to be negative, I’m saying it because we

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Free Donuts

Jared Polis is at it again. The Colorado Vaccine Lottery is history but I guess there’s a few dollars left in the kitty, so the new campaign is to give out $100 dollar gift cards to Walmart. The more children you bring into the vaccine stations, the more gift cards we will give you, inferred

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Playtime

“Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good” -Lucia Capocchione We had the pleasure of having all four of our grandchildren come up to the High Plains and stay with us for a while this summer. They were all four

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Real Food Doesn’t Wear a Label

Real food has something processed food doesn’t have – fiber. The food industry removes the fiber to stabilize the food, so it won’t go rancid. Fiber reduces the shelf life and that’s unacceptable to the big industrial food companies, so their answer is to remove it. The problem is that, it’s not food anymore. It might look like food and taste like food but it is a very poor substitute for real food. Unless chronic disease and obesity are desired, instead of health. 

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Human Paradox

The big advantage we had as children was that we knew we didn’t know. We were fearless little explorers; laughing, running and playing. Full of imagination and curiosity about what nature and the Great Wide World would show us. Collecting a hand full of dandelions or roly-polies, the questions flowing non-stop. How high is the

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