Category Archives: life around us

NaPoWriMo, Day Twelve

Haven’t you heard the effect of peepers zooming by in the night? I wanted to write you words tonight driving home from work, after a movie but I watched the world instead. The highway rolled by, familiar, random red dots … Continue reading

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Proactive vs Reactive

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt

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NaPoWriMo, Day Nine

Because today is the ninth day of NaPoWriMo, I’d like to challenge you to write a nine-line poem. Continue reading

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Morning

There is nothing like looking up and seeing a bald eagle fly over, (middle-bridge Brainard) gleaming in the bright morning light.  Later in my commute I spotted a pileated woodpecker flying over I-90 west of exit 6. 

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For The Quote Box

This is the greatest damn thing about the universe, that we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can’t grasp it. — Henry Miller

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