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Trails To Life Go Up. Saturday, July 12, 2014. On Watching the World Cup. Last week, sitting in an Ethiopian Café in my Roger’s Park neighborhood, I marveled at the comradery and collective spirit among the Café’s usual regulars from half a dozen capitals of the world. But the memory that comes back with most clarity is that first time I stood before a screen amongst fans of the world’s great past time. On the walls of many of the men, there next to their national hero, Leopold Senghor, their first presi...
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Trails To Life Go Up: Swimming and Yoga: Flying Fish...
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Trails To Life Go Up. Sunday, September 19, 2010. Swimming and Yoga: Flying Fish. Swimming and Yoga: Flying Fish (Part 1). Nude swimmer or human fish? Sometimes when people ask me how was I first introduced to the practice of hatha yoga, instead of technically answering them “in my college acting class,” I want to give a more truthful answer: “swimming at my grandparent’s lake cottage in northern Indiana.”. I practice freestyle or “the crawl” but all the strokes can provide a flowing movement...Or is it,...
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Trails To Life Go Up: September 2012
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Trails To Life Go Up. Friday, September 28, 2012. Happy 80th, Mom: Walkng with The Mind of My Mother. 8220;For some fool reason, they always lead you right up over the biggest rock to the top of the biggest mountain they can find.”. Grandma Gatewood, the oldest woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail, twice, alone, wearing Keds, eating Vienna Sausages, and sleeping, rolled up in a shower curtain. I ease my father’s car up to her, careful not to cause alarm, and get out. Her face registers that frightf...
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Trails To Life Go Up: October 2012
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Trails To Life Go Up. Friday, October 19, 2012. Hiking in Gary's Miller Beach. This is why I love the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and many other hidden remnants of the remarkable natural landscape that once stunned the early French explorers with its wildness and wonder. I asked for a map at the resource center, but the ranger said they didn’t have one, but that she’d mark it on my map. This was a good sign, I thought, or was it? Fall, wasn’t it? In the city, you recognize that the trees are changin...
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Trails To Life Go Up: August 2013
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Trails To Life Go Up. Wednesday, August 14, 2013. The Gardens Around Us. To live—is that not enough? Let us then live, let us affirm! I think a lot about my mother these days, as she sits in a wheelchair in an Alzheimer’s unit next to I-69 that leads to the town where I was born over a half a century ago. When I visit her, I roll her out of her room and the sterile, homey hallways where women like her roam and wait at the locked doors, hoping someone will let them out. How we relate to the land is the mo...
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Trails To Life Go Up: Surprise! Hiking in Gary's Miller Beach
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Trails To Life Go Up. Friday, October 19, 2012. Hiking in Gary's Miller Beach. This is why I love the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and many other hidden remnants of the remarkable natural landscape that once stunned the early French explorers with its wildness and wonder. I asked for a map at the resource center, but the ranger said they didn’t have one, but that she’d mark it on my map. This was a good sign, I thought, or was it? Fall, wasn’t it? In the city, you recognize that the trees are changin...
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Trails To Life Go Up: October 2014
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Trails To Life Go Up. Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Walking in Suburbia: Indianapolis Steps Out, Slowly. This past summer I took up residence at my parent’s home in the suburbs of Indianapolis so as to put the home up for sale after my father’s recent death and my mother’s failing health from Alzheimer’s. I spent my high school years at their odd wooded two acre residence just off of one of the city’s main east west streets—71. And something else—people walking down the street. When I watch the walkers mo...
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Jeff The Giant Orange Cat
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Posts filed under 'Picture Post'. Comments Off on The End. 201407.17. - 18:47 Comments Off on The End. Jeff The Giant Orange Cat passed away this afternoon. We think he was 16 years old. We thank all those who took an interest in Jeff and followed him over the years. We thank you for your comments, gifts, emails, and fan art/music. Most of all we thank you for loving animals and loving your pets as we loved Jeff. This is our last photo of Jeff; he was helping us play Hay Day. We will miss him always.
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Jeff The Giant Orange Cat
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Archive for March, 2014. 201403.31. - 23:05 Comments (4). Since Norman has been gone, Jeff and Rita’s relationship has evolved. Before, Rita would complain verbally or even throw a punch when Jeff got too close to her. Jeff was mostly oblivious. Now, however, they have entered a new frontier of togetherness. And then there were two. Cats That Look Like Hitler. I Can Has Cheezburger? Carl's Jr. French Fries. Is your pet prepared for an earthquake?
