Memorial Day marks the beginning of the outdoor season but it was cold and wet here on the High Planes, couldn’t even barbecue. The forecast though showed the possibility for a spectacular day, the day after, so I started forming a plan. I was thinking a good long bike ride but I still have a […]
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I first came across the term “Petty Tyrant” in a Carlos Castenada book. When I was in High School, in the mid 70’s, my little sister had a summer job cleaning dormitories at Knox College and brought home a boxed set of the first four volumes of “The Teachings of Don Juan”, that someone had
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For quite awhile, I have been pondering and meditating on abortion. Since it has been in the news flow lately, as the political left and right struggle with each other and their belief systems regarding the right and wrong of it, I thought it the perfect time to write a post. Any time we give
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The basic requirements for life are clean air, water and food. Almost all disease; wee beasties from viruses to cancer have a difficult time in an alkaline environment. We are energetic, electrical beings and energy moves and thrives in an alkaline environment. In a high acid environment, energy is impeded, we become sluggish and slow;
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Woke up this morning to the remnants of a High Planes Blizzard. Snow everywhere, in little drifts and piles – sparkling, bright and cold. The temperature on the Christian Church sign across the street blinks 15 degrees at 8:00 straight up, as the Methodist Church, a block east chimes the hour for a full 30
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The north wind was slamming into the cottage, this morning when we got up at 4:30 or so, whipping and whistling. I looked out the window, to check the temperature on the church sign, across the street, it read 23 degrees. I ran the math in my head. Cold + Really windy = Really Cold.
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One of the things I miss about the city, are the grocery stores. Out here on the High Planes there is only our small grocery store. Vickie manages it and does her best to bring in new products and organics but the vendors just don’t have access to the crazy, other-worldly inventory, of the speciality
Mick used both oars to turn the raft perpendicular to the current as they came into the sharp river bend, so he could maintain control of the boat and not get caught in the main channel, which flowed up under the overhanging branches on the opposite bank. “Holy cow. Look at all those fish feeding
Cuchara Canyon was a lucky find for me. I’ve driven past it a number of times on the way to other places and have always found the country interesting. Interesting but not really worth a stop, not with the plethora of outdoor opportunities and some of my favorite places in the state, just a little
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Have you ever considered the identities you have created for yourself? ‘The Good Son’, ‘The Doting Father’, ‘The Loving Mother’, ‘The Supporting Wife’, ‘The Rescuing Hero’ or the ‘Stupid Clown’. You get the idea, there are hundreds of these mythic, archetypal thought forms, (masks) out there. Which ones are imprisoning you? How many different manifestations
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False Dichotomy – The suggestion that two things are mutually exclusive, “you are either with us or against us” suggests that there are only two types of people: those who think and act identically and those who are enemies. After the mass shooting events last weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, I started
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I’ve been pondering a bike ride to Mount Sunflower (the highest point in Kansas), for quite awhile but the conditions have not been right or I lacked ambition, until a couple days ago. I was down at the local pub on Friday night having dinner and a few beers with Vickie. A younger friend of
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Humans love to build fences and walls. We make everything “Us vs. Them”; Religion, Gender, Nationality, Politics, Race, Age, even Sports Teams. It must be part of our early training, our indoctrination, a toxic belief that takes up residence and never leaves. It is understandable I suppose, as evolution has historically occurred in small groups,