Sunday, December 19, 2021

What If Depression Catches You??

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 Whether it's situational, seasonal, or random, everybody finds themselves under the weight of depression sometimes.  You can wallow in ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Isaac the Eater and Wesley the Playful

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It's a tale like many others, it but has lessons for us nonetheless: There was a town whose people feared a dragon that lived in the woo...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Grand Reopening 2021

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 It's been a long time. Who knew when we closed our doors that evening after the 2019 Candlelight Shopping event that it would be ninete...
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Thursday, May 27, 2021

Rings Rings Rings

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 Offering finger rings can be tricky. If you see a ring you just love, but it's not your size, you get angry at me and go away sad!  So ...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Flower Memories

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Many of my memories of people are cemented in as association with flowers. In the olden days, we got Mother's Day corsages for our grand...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

If You Are Someones Boss, Don't Be A Prick

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I remember it like it was the day before yesterday, though some aspects may be slightly augmented for effect, I will admit. I was in his o...

Service Without Gods

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Where do ethics come from?  Where does responsibility to other people originate?  With religion? With your god? From a following of a religi...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Seeds

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I give these prairie tours every fall at a farm museum and I just never know what is going to stick.  Does anyone really learn anything or...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Eagle Cams in Late March 2014

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When I was a kid, in the era of bad chemicals, on a plain that used to be prairie, there were birds that were rare and others that were only...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

"To be human is to yearn . . . "

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"To be human is to yearn . . . " The Crane Wife, Patrick Ness. There are more theories out there than I can remember, of what mad...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

Remembering Linda

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It's been a while, but it still hurts.  I still need her sometimes.  I met her pretty late in life, when we were both well past...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

The Myth of The Screwed Up Artist and How It Hurts Us All

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There is so much hype about artists and the artist personality.  Artists are allowed to be, maybe even expected to be, screw ups. There is ...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Strange Beliefs and The Necessary Propensity to Hold Them

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Look at it out there, dusk-like at nearly noon, the trees bare dead looking sticks, even the evergreens a black shade of dark, the grass a s...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

What Does Pretty Mean?

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Does your girl ask if she is pretty?  How do you answer?  You answer "Yes, of course you are," because she is. She's pretty...
Monday, September 23, 2013

We Don't Need Wilderness (I'm Not Saying What You Think I'm Saying But)

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We glorify the idea of the wilderness experience, long to experience it, honor and envy those who seek it when we lack the drive or the mea...