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spindle tree mornings
Occasional early weekdays, framed by repeated Saturday visits to the trail. Few visits I have missed. Nature preserved amid housing and commute traffic, slightly hidden away. Listen to quietude. Spring / summer wildflowers frame a small wetland. Dark cold mornings, bright hot mornings, stop to appreciate the views, then parkrun again, again.
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pond life
A few hundred steps from home. The gift of rain-fresh water attracts visitors who pass through, and many who stay for a season or two. Or for life. Turtles all of the way down, fingerlings lurk nearby; ducks, egrets, herons, geese all the way up, they stay for a while and then fly away. Seasonal…
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home seasons
Spring, summer, fall and winter, the sun and moonlight advance above – patterns across the tree line. Watch the progression from early redbuds through full summer canopy to fall colors and then – finally the years growth drifts down and away. For just a few short months until the next early spring. Each day a…
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technology: progress or principles?
“Optimism …says there is no fundamental barrier, no law of nature or supernatural decree, preventing progress. If something is permitted by the laws of physics, then the only thing that can prevent it from being technologically possible is not knowing how. David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity. I don’t wish to avoid or withdraw from…
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On the Calculation of Volume – I, II, and III
A relatively unknown Danish author (Solvej Balle) has crafted a series of small books on a well-worn theme, a person caught in a repeating day. See full review at the attached link: On the Calculation of Volume – I, II, and III – Welcome Tara Selter is a middle-aged book reseller who lives in a…
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on the nature of events
Processing memories from distant years ago, 30, 40, 50 years or more. Recently I shared a memory with my son Matt about the time when he and his brother tried to carve up an evergreen tree in the backyard of our Colorado house, circa 1995. He could not remember this. There are no pictures or…
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two book reviews
These two books have informed me about health and wellness: The Emperor of All Maladies, a Biography of Cancer – Siddhartha Mukherjee. I am not an expert in medical practices and blessed to have avoided being a patient of this family of diseases. But I have friends and family who have suffered, and some have…
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impermanence
Everything is impermanent. The forest becomes an open field – a farm, then a housing tract. Over decades it falls into a state of disrepair, is redeveloped and reoccupied by new families. Look up and suddenly the skyline has changed. Twenty years in the city re-invented, we need a new house, a new stadium of…
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what makes up a life?
Small things: Staring at my socks, tying my shoes in the dark kitchen before each early morning run. Every day. Looking up at the dark sky, watching the progression of the phases of the moon as the weeks roll along, all too quickly. Seeing a bright meteor plunge down right in front of me. Perhaps…
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Niagara Falls marathon
Setting a goal to run and finish 100 marathons, I stood at 70 in January of this year. I did the math and decided that four marathons per year for eight(!) more years could get me there. Or perhaps I need to run a few more at my current (relatively) young age? Then I came…