POST ELECTION The Isolation blues; reflections during covid-19 The violence in this world is real, don’t be dishonest about that, yet violence does not have the last word. God is still up to something in this world. So don’t give…
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THE NEW YEAR The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 From the Journals of Henry David Thoreau January 6, 1858 The first snow-storm of much importance. By noon it may be six inches deep…Very little evidence of God or man did I see…
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BEWILDERMENT The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment… Rumi Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go…
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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 The last week of December is the darkest (and sometimes the coldest) time of the year here in the north woods. The stretch from Winter Solstice to New Years Day is the frozen low…
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SNOWY COMPANIONS The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 Last Sunday morning we had our first significant snow of snow season ’20-’21, about 10 inches of heavy, snow-ball pack snow. It was a Christmas card perfect snowfall, clinging to the trees…
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TEN DOLLAR BILL The Isolation blues; reflections during covid-19 Years ago I dropped off a friend of mine at the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown Bangor. You have to get up early in the morning to make it in time…
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THANKSGIVING The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 Here is a photo I took earlier this morning of the icy Meduxnekeag on the day before Thanksgiving. This shot is taken looking upstream as you can see the oxbow taking an extreme bend…
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DRIVING LESSON The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 My grandfather, George Hutchinson Sr., was born in 1870 and was almost 60 years old before he ever attempted to drive an automobile. He grew up in an American era when horse…
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RUBBER BOOTS The Isolation blues; reflections during covid-19 When I was nine years old I worked my first job, picking potatoes on our family farm. With my paycheck I still remember one of the things I most wanted to purchase; a…
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GET OUT THE VOTE The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 In the years that followed it became fashionable, even mandatory, to speak of the “failure” of the Great Society. But the Great Society did not fail. It was abandoned. The…