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,
An article for the local newspaper. Once a person has met their biological needs and they feel safe and secure, their next most important requirement is a feeling of community and belonging. Community is a vital component in the quality of life equation. We need to support our local economy if we want to maintain
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To grow and evolve you need to push the edge of the envelope, stretch your limits and challenge your personal belief system. As you evolve, stretch, and grow, it creates stress. Be patient and attentive. Determine the best spot to apply pressure, which relieves the stress. Often the action that is required is letting go,
◆ a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold. ◆ a heavy and prolonged snowstorm covering a wide area. There was a big one last night. It has been quite awhile since I’ve experienced one. I believe the last one was here too, on the High Planes about a decade ago. We
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The February Moon has traditionally been called the Snow Moon due to the heavy snowfall typical of the season. The National Weather Service corroborates that, showing on average, February is the snowiest month for the U.S. Other names used by the Native Tribes were Hunger and Bone Moon. There was so little food that the