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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Searching for Ourselves in Great Books
Every year, as an exercise in discipline and self-improvement and to gain some of the liberal arts education I lacked as an MIT tool, I read a great book. Not something defined as great by the whims of popular culture, … Continue reading
Pedaling Principles Chapter Eight – Illinois: Clean Government Wanted
I left Cape Girardeau early and crossed the Mississippi with the dawn. The Illinois side is low lying land, swampy and lush. No more than two miles into the state I saw a large stenciled sign in front of a … Continue reading
Deep Yoga
On the morning after Christmas I found myself cheek flat on the pavement eyes straight up the yellow line of the road, the blacktop stretching out of focus beyond my peripheral view. A pick-up truck eased to a stop before … Continue reading
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Tagged Bikram, cracked rib, The New Tork Times Magazine, Wiliam Broad, yoga
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Pedaling Principles Chapter Seven – Missouri, Moralilty on a Lawn Sign
By the time I got to Neosho, MO early on a Saturday evening I was hot and tired and in need of a good shower. There are a cluster of hotels where US 60 and US 71 intersect, so I … Continue reading
Shopping for Sweet Scents
This Christmas my daughter asked for Chanel Number 5 perfume, an atlas, and soaps from a store called Lush. The list pretty much bookends the journey of personal exploration a twenty-two year old woman travels through in search of her … Continue reading
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Tagged Chanel Number 5, Colonial Drug, Lord & Taylor, Lush, Macy's
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Pedaling Principles Chapter Six – Oklahoma, Energy for the Taking
The ride south from Dodge City, KS to Woodward, OK is one hundred and ten miles, a long and lonely haul on a hot, hot Saturday in late July. I was most thankful to the caring waitresses at Shorty’s Café … Continue reading
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Tagged Afton OK, Buffalo OK, Cape Wind, Chandler OK, energy, Oklahoma, Packard Museum, Route 66, Shorty's Cafe, Turbines, wind farms
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Twin Tales of Darkness
Haiti is not nearly so dark as it used to be. The electrical grid in Grand Goave, which ran maybe four to six hours per day during the year after the earthquake, now operates about twenty hours a day and … Continue reading
Buckeyes in Haiti
I often describe Haiti as magical, and I am not alone in that view. Mysticism is strong here where ancient voudou merges the physical and the spirit world. It also provides context for the daily trials of people with so … Continue reading
Pedaling Principles – Chapter Five – Kansas
Kansas – We Are What We Eat Cows like me. At least, that it what I imagine as I ride along the side of the road. When I ride by, cows stop what they are doing, grazing, and look at … Continue reading
Construction by Hand
A five gallon bucket is a foot in diameter and just over a foot tall. It will take over 11,000 buckets of concrete, carried from the mixer by hand and up a ladder, to pour the second floor of the … Continue reading
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