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December-ish (but still November-ish)
Every year I tend to get a bit sentimental and reflective when December rolls around. As I close in on the end of my second full year of this blog, I’m hoping to channel some of that sentimentality into some productive creative motivation here (and also in other online and offline spaces I’ve been inhabiting
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Un-Wounding
I hate blog posts that are just excuses for not writing. That said, I have been quiet for quite a while. That deserves at least a little excuse for not writing. The summer was a bust. Back in July when I wrote about my knee I was still moderately hopeful that whatever my self-diagnosed ailment
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Knee-hab
Ten days ago I was climbing up a mountain trail near the Crowsnest Pass, a low peak along the continental divide on a sunny Sunday afternoon, looking at views like this: I could feel the start of some bit of twinging in my right knee, but like anything else for a guy in his mid-40s,
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Monday Zen: Pulling Weeds
In a previous post I mentioned that my vegetable garden has been sprouting through the spring in a particular state of ambiguity. As all the little seeds I deliberately planted in May began to germinate and grow, so did the variety of weeds and volunteer plants begin to emerge from the soil. In many cases
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After the Storm
Exactly one week ago, almost to the hour of me writing these words, I finally tested positive for COVID-19. By all accounts and on a severity scale of one to ten (one being no symptoms and ten being the most severe fatal variety) I would rank my infection experience at a 4 or maybe at
Category: life & stuff
Generally just words and thoughts on the progress of my day-to-day.