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Dec.07.2011
After the gaudy melodrama of fall -- a hundred thousand extravagantly colored death scenes attended by an equal number of gaping onlookers -- early winter is dull, almost boring by comparison. Temperatures tight rope around the freezing mark, snow falls, melts, then maybe...
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Sep.16.2010
Forty-five years ago, Colorado’s South Platte River left her banks and thrust herself at the tall cottonwoods whose deep roots, until that moment, drank matter-of-factly from her mossy waters near the frog pond by my childhood home. Twenty feet tall now, the river roared across mowed lawns,...
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Mar.07.2010
When You Don’t Have The Answers
1. We’ve acknowledged that mystery is all around us—a given.
2. The sea is powerful by being low. The rivers flow into it.
3. Low is good because it knows how to receive gracefully, naturally. Low waits.
4. “Let it be.” Paul McCartney
5. “Want to make God laugh...
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