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Steps for the Enjoyment of Musik
Step 1. Get a great set of headphones. Sinnhauser or something really great. Get what an audiophile gets. I don’t know much about it, but when you experience the difference it’s apparent. Step 2. Play Mahler Symphony No. 1 and listen to the entirety of it while rotating lying on your back on a nice…
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A Day at the Mall (This Really Happened, No Big Deal)
I decided to drive over to the Barton Square Mall on an early Saturday afternoon. I pulled into the long parking rows outside of Dillard’s department store and sharked cautiously up and down for a spot closest to the entrance. It was two weeks before Christmas Day, bright and crisp and blue-skied. The lot was…
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Who’s Going to Carry The Boats (In Dresden, at 4 am on a Tuesday in February)?*
Sometimes you do everything right and still face an unplanned challenge. For example, you might provide regular and proper maintenance for your car but still suffer a flat tire on the way to your cousin’s barbeque. In my case, I ticked all the boxes to make it to the Dresden Hbf this morning. The day…
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Ethiopia: Addis Ababa to Mekelle
Day 2 (March 24, 2013) – Addis Ababa to Mekelle and More The Ethiopian calendar tells us that this is the year 2005. That’s fine. A 5:15 a.m. start to a city already awake and the sun beginning to rise over men and women dressed in white. Jackie says that she heard horns calling people…
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Ethiopia Blog: Addis Ababa
Guest blogger Holley Blackwell is a doula, beekeeper, consultant, and writer living in Chicago, Illinois. She has joined in the Healing Hands of Joy spring 2013 Ethiopia trip because of her enthusiasm for Healing Hands of Joy’s programs and innovations. She will be posting periodically and retroactively. Day One in Addis Ababa (Jackie Renwick, Kim…
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Sometimes you just are who you are
Tonight I went to go see Los Crudos at the ChiTown Futbol Club on Throop near Cermak. It was a fantastic punk show, full of energy and different ages, straight edge and drinkers, lots of different colors and some of the the best, dissident sounds. I think about how I am a follower of Jesus…
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New Start 2-28-13
Tomorrow begins March, and it is a new start for this year. During the month of March I will travel to Ethiopia and see people and sights that I cannot even fathom. I imagine dry rocks and curves in the roads with old busses and dust and rather creative attire. I imagine a blue sky…
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Struggle Lifted
It happens. Struggles can end.
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Regrets and Non-Regrets
These are things that I absolutely do not regret: Hiking trips Anytime spent in wilderness, forests Becoming a doula Going to college Writing Poems and writing anything, really Riding my bike slowly, quickly, far, etc.
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