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Write. Read. Live.: June 2011
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He ramblings of a freelance writer, novelist and avid reader. Saturday, June 4, 2011. So why am I joyously fanatical this evening? Because tomorrow morning at 8:00 am central time one of those moments will unfold on my living room television: The 2011 French Open Men's Final. Seriously, if at any point tomorrow or later on YouTube you want to see poetry in motion (wow, I really just said that) watch 5 or 10 minutes of this final. Why do I know it will be amazing? I have no idea. I’m not even su...Shelfar...
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45°NE: Second Traverse
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Friday, December 26, 2008. Reporting in after a slushy traverse this afternoon. Better slush than bitter bitter cold. This time I took a still camera and recorded the traverse. The result, narrated after the fact, is here, or on YouTube at higher resolution here. I chatted again with a couple of folks, again no-one knew the line was there. Perhaps because it isn't. If anyone wants the PDF version, let me know. I think this gives me what I need to start contacting residents and building owners. At Merlins...
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Write. Read. Live.: Screwing my Courage to the Sticking Post
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He ramblings of a freelance writer, novelist and avid reader. Thursday, September 13, 2012. Screwing my Courage to the Sticking Post. After a year of not blogging I’m going to enter again with a clichéd song quote. But it’s so perfect for the all-too-personal post that follows and it’s helped me through at least half of the past year. I’m trying to tell you something about my life. Maybe give me insight between black and white. And the best thing you’ve ever done for me,. It’s only life after all. Most w...
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Write. Read. Live.: Learning to Love Disappointment
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He ramblings of a freelance writer, novelist and avid reader. Monday, February 7, 2011. Learning to Love Disappointment. You’re in the air and it’s above you and it’s heavy. Gravity tells me what goes up must come down…and in this case a big, angry machine will inevitably come down on your head? The ski jump is a literal leap of faith the first time you do it – and then again each consecutive time. How do you practice that? 8220;I’m sorry, who is this eagle person? 8221; I asked. Well of course he was ri...
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Write. Read. Live.: Blind Faith Fandom Payoff
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He ramblings of a freelance writer, novelist and avid reader. Tuesday, October 2, 2012. Blind Faith Fandom Payoff. I’ve finally gotten around to posting this video from YouTube as a follow up to my Learning to Love Disappointment. Post from February 2011. The final moments of the US Open Men’s Final – known by me as the day our lad did indeed get there – as seen through the eyes of a pub full of Scots. Yes, it did make me cry and I did watch it more than once. O Flower of Scotland,. When will we see.
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Measured Words: September 2011
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Friday, September 2, 2011. Truth to tell, one of the triggers for this blog came two and a half years ago, on my other blog, in a discussion about the word "Truth.". In particular, I've continued to be struck by how "truth" continues to be a quicksand for us today. In a nutshell, truth can mean honesty (making true testimony), or faithfulness (as in a true friend or an arrow flying true). And in fact, "faithfulness" is the older common meaning of the word. Suggestion: take a break from invoking "truth" i...
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45°NE: Announcing the 45°NE Project
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Sunday, November 16, 2008. Announcing the 45°NE Project. I'm embarking on an experiment. I've been ruminating for a long time about how to express sense of place in maps (I'm a cartographer). For a few years I've been thinking about how to channel experience of place into a form true both to the objectivity-seeking values of cartography and. The personal-expression values of the fine arts (I was a studio arts major in college). After a thought provoking time at NACIS. I reached the conclusion. Anyone who...
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45°NE: We're Not Alone
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Thursday, November 20, 2008. There are other sites out there documenting both 45°N markers and the true half-way point by distance. Steven Dutch from University of Wisconsin-Green Bay did this site. About markers in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Roadside America did this article. Mostly on the same sites, and has links to directions for them, and also to this marker. In Maine. More about that marker here. As Ken Wedding pointed out on my other blog, The Degree Confluence Project.
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A Different Understanding of Scripture | NontheistFriends.org
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Nontheist Friends: Quaker atheists, agnostics, humanists, and others who practice Quakerism without supernatural beliefs. A Different Understanding of Scripture. January 20, 2009. My friend Nat Case, from my own Twin Cities Friends Meeting, has a blog. This post expands on a brief comment I made on his post Fragments of a Religion That Never Existed. Where Nat writes in part:. I find scripture-as-community-glue interesting, but my sympathies lie with scriptures-taken-to-heart. I do have a series of b...
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