Reading Time: 5 minutes Carpe diem, seize the day, gets tossed around as if it’s actually good advice. It’s a popular and ancient maxim …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Two months after our wedding The Redheaded-Wildflower [my wife Dee Dee] and I ventured into the magnificent mountains I first …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Burst of blue like living flame Searching from wintered stalk. Forlorn whistle calls a name. Lone bluebird becomes a flock. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week’s Word of Advent is joy. Joy is something all of us have experienced but few of us are …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes In the early 70s Richard Nixon mocked war protesters by throwing up double peace signs and shaking his jowls like …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes This past week I was hunting in the Rockies. Time after time as I hiked the woods, I found myself …
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Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the most memorable mountain bike rides I’ve taken also became a parable about death and new life. Taking …
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Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m bewitched by aspen trees. Have been for years. They are complex, moody creatures. Their dark eyes are windows into …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Courage is not the absence of fear. We’ve all heard this. It’s easy to define things by what they are …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes For most of my life I didn’t drink water the way the experts say you’re supposed to. In summer we …
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