Finally, spring is here. You open the windows and smell the magical smell.. But what to do if springtime you brings ennui … even self doubt? Perhaps my doubt comes from the late, even unreliable, spring of Northern Colorado. Even when it does show up, you can’t be totally sure it will stay. There can […]
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Are you wondering how to start a spiritual journey? To do that, we first must entertain a few definitions. First, let’s talk about the progress of our lives as humans on earth. Then, we can speak of types of spiritual journeys. I think of life as being in three stages. You can start your spiritual
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Dinner. It’s More Important than Either You or I Thought This is my roundup post about dinner. I’ve been thinking about dinner a lot these days, and not just because I’m hungry. Dinner is more important than I thought. And it’s hard to get a “real” (three course, meat, starch, and vegetable) dinner together every
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It came time this week for the Mountain’s Edge People, my beloved Meetup hiking group, to challenge our local landmark: the Horsetooth Rock Hike. Five miles out and back, with a rise of about 1,400, this is the Fort Collins hike. The one everyone knows. The one all the college students must do once. Though
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In an earlier blog post, Loomings of a California Spiritual Journey, I listed four questions I planned to answer by taking a pilgrimage, to California where I grew up. These questions were general and could serve various individuals who want to reflect and refine life practice. Basically, they sketch out a “a how to change
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As I read over the posts that I wrote on the California trip, I made a list of the things I learned on each day and linked the posts below. Today, as I re-write and re-edit, I come again upon thoughts of Amelia Earhart. Her name came up more than once. Like her I was
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I spent most of the day driving, returning from Littlefield, Arizona to Fort Collins. I actually left before 6 a.m., and rolled up to my house at 5:45 p.m. But it wasn’t all bad, because as I drove I was thinking about the California pilgrimage, putting my life in order, so to speak. The 10
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I have arrived in LIttlefield, Arizona, just on the far side of the Nevada border. It was a long, tiring drive. The morning began beautifully, with “Barely” showing me how he feeds the blue jays from his porch. That was the highlight of the day. After that, Cholame, then Bakersfield, and then the Mojave desert
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Tomorrow, bright and early, I need to get back in the car and travel east. Toward Colorado. Which is not a bad place. Nor is work bad. Exactly. But you know. Today would be a day in San Luis Obispo. Doing my own kind of things. Walking the Labyrinth My day in San Luis Obispo
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Up till now my central coast trip has been in and around Morro Bay. Today, I decided to go up Highway 1 to see the part of that road that clung precariously to the side of a mountain. This would be that part of Highway 1, driving to Big Sur. This trip would not go
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