THE TRESTLE The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 By most estimates this has been a rather lean snow year for Northern Maine thus far. The old-timers used to say 100 inches was a good snow year so at approximately 30…
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COFFEE BUM The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 Over the years I’ve established a caffeine-earned reputation as a coffee bum and spent more time in diners and small coffee shops than I care to admit. When I’m on the road…
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ALL IN THE FAMILY The Isolation Blues; reflections during covid-19 We broke ground but we didn’t erect a building. It takes a long time for social justice to permeate every human soul. We still have a lot of the Archie…
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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…