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Monthly Archives: January 2016
deep water – January 29
1.29.2016 long languid strokes stretch easy down the pool overhead pipe keeps the body in line through the scull. breathe. slow, steady unhurried. pace, pace, pause. let the mind drift while the body moves. calming minutes … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, body, exercise, meditation, peace, soul, tranquility, water.
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Hoppy come home – January 28
1.28 Hop-Along-Cassidy smiled his hard smile, eyes like diamonds, so deadly and cool. Hold it or else, were the words left unspoken no need to utter the message was clear. Where has it gone now that either-or clearness … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, cowboys, heroes, Hopalong Cassidy, idealism, movies, yearing
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Old cowboys – January 26
1.26.2016 Old cowboys make me happy astride their movied range I know they weren’t the real west but I loved them just the same. Good won out the bad guys fell they always got us … Continue reading
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Tagged b-westerns, childhood, cowboys, heroes, ideals, movies, remembrance, values
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believer – January 24
1.24.2016 I believe in science — it is not enough I believe in the human story — it is not enough I believe in the leadings of my heart — it is not enough cold and harsh hot and … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, collective unconscious, damage, God, humanism, humanity, Jesus, limitations, mind, objective reality, origins, Psychology, salvation, science, soul, spirit, theology, Trinity, weakness
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non-original sins – January 22
1.22.2016 dead bodies in the streets wounded pleading faces, our enemies at the mercy of our whim seeing our fantasies play out in real life is not always pretty or ennobling. what evil lurks in the hearts of … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, bitterness, blindness, evil, fantasy, hatred, original sin, politics, repression, self, self righteousness, self-indulgence, sin
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Intermittentcy – January 21
Hello friends, Some intermittentcy (is that a word?!) coming up this month, as my writing energies are channeling into a six week course on The Story of The Silver Screen Cowboys that I’m teaching at UofMinnesota’s OLLI program starting next … Continue reading
years – January 19
1.19.2016 years feel like moments or eons depending upon who you are spending them with. ————
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Tagged experience, feeling, joy, pain, relationship, relativity, time
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spandex – January 18
1.18.2015 wrapped up in furs like kleenex nothing stops winter’s spandex from clinging to skin with fire. —————–
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