I got a text from Kurt last night, asking if I wanted to try the Loop again. We can walk part of it. We’ll have to- I am out of shape. When I got up, we met and enjoyed a slow clod around the Academy, and seeing the sun pop up over the Sandias...
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I’ve been dealing with some physical issues this week, and so this morning, after a very slow start to the day, I decided I needed to get out for the afternoon. For some reason, my mind jumped immediately to revisiting the Hoodoo Trail in the Ojita Wilderness. Several years ago, I parked at the...
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This afternoon, my brother texted my immediate family with some good news, and my mom replied to him that it called for a fat celebration for he and his wife. She gave him an encouraging word, and then in an immediate followup text to just me and my dad, she said “I’ll fix supper...
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Tonight after work I met my sister, her husband, and her eldest son for a walk in the Sandia foothills at dusk. I had my camera with me, but a long stretch of clouds to the west made the prospects of remarkable light at sun down seem pretty slim. Except, there was a thin...
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Tonight after work I decided to head back down to Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge to check in on the birds. I knew the Cubs game played this evening was blacked out locally, so I couldn’t go home and watch it. And I also didn’t feel much like going home to sit around....
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I was fortunate enough to have some time off available to burn at work, and an offering of generosity to nudge me to get me on the road the first weekend of March. About two weeks ago, a work colleague I talk regularly with about all kinds of sports let me know she and...
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It was a good day for a Monday for the most part. I ate Blake’s burrito for breakfast, drank a raspberry mocha, drank 3 bottles of water at work, skipped lunch, and then ate some tacos for dinner tonight. The tacos part was interesting because an hour before dinner, I had been in the...
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I awoke early this morning having considered last night taking a drive up to the Valle Caldera to check on the trees, but at 6AM, that particular urge left me. I went back to bed and enjoyed another hour and a half of needed sleep. The morning passed in gross misappropriation. By 1, I...
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In some seasons of my life, it can feel like being is divided into three layers. On the surface is the layer of action, where the day to day bustle of life happens. In the innermost one, people meet and share their souls, and find camaraderie and sympathy and compassion, and it’s there they...
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