February 17th, 2010

The wonders of winter

Why do I love winter? Because I don’t have to move or travel to go to an entirely different country. Every thing’s different. Winter is clear, crisp,  and dry—sort of like May in New Mexico without the dust, the wind, or the scorpions, centipedes, tarantulas, rattlesnakes, et al.

The shapes of the hills become beautifully

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February 12th, 2009

From ArtBistro.com: it’s a Minnesota thing, an amazing ice festival

Watch out Firefox’s Google bar made the title into a linnk to itself.

The Coolest Festival Lake Shikotsu – ArtBistro.com

I got this link from an Art Bistro newsletter this morning. As a scandahoovian Minnesotan, this is really cool! But then the Japanese tend to take things over the top a little.

I won’t grab

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January 4th, 2009

Mid-life crisis? No… it’s just winter

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time for the past several months trying to determine what the Lord wants me to do with the rest of my life. Talk about a waste of time, as if He is going to give me the plan in advance… However, it is a far larger waste to go blithely on with my plans — assuming that

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