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finding the love story
In Denmark, my studio instructor was a young (20-something?) urban designer named Ulrik. In addition to the cultural barriers between student & instructor and the USA and Denmark, Ulrik also was...
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wickedness & salvation (it’s christmas)
Suddenly, and as it always has been, it all became too much to bear. Driving home after work this evening, the police chief’s tale of opioid overdose replaying in my mind and radio newscasters...
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children, vacations, emergencies
choosing the better part I celebrated my 6 month wedding anniversary and received word my stepfather will be indeterminately admitted to the Mayo Clinic’s pre-hab facilities this weekend. For the most...
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gather\together
In a few hours, I will head off to church, to a gathering with which I’ve been falling into belonging/engaging/approving/tolerating-love for the past 6 or so months. This affection is in no small part...
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appending the grey
image credit: Matt Chang cc It’s 43 degrees and raining on a mid-February Friday in Minnesota, weather so untypical for the climate that I’m momentarily displaced and the freeway I travel down could be...
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trusting the equipment
cc image from flickr user Beth Rankin During college I worked at a ropes course, primarily shepherding upper elementary and middle school campers through obstacles ranging from 6 inches to 40 feet off...
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settling
From flickr user Alexander Baxevanis | cc The police chief asked me the other day how I had ended up in Minnesota, after schooling in St. Louis and Illinois. (Aside) The police chief and I talk,...
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here
Image: manoj mp | cc It seems to take about a year. From leaving in May of 2010 to Easter-ish 2011 to let go of St. Louis. Ten months to stop listening to endless Jason Boland on Pandora and accept...
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making it rain
Image: Harini Calamur | cc A broadly engaging courses I’m taking this semester covers the role of natural disasters in urban development and planning. One of the more ‘applicable’ and relevant...
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love, labor, lost
Photo Credit: ed_needs_a_bicycle | creative commons I’ve not felt the need to write for many months. (That’s not entirely true. In June I composed a short series of posts inspired by my weekly 3-hour...
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“homestyle” cooking
Image Source: Arnold Gatilao, Creative Commons I have a bottle of schwanky Imported from Italy Extra Virgin Olive Oil sitting on my faded Formica countertop. I used several tablespoons this weekend...
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mise en place
Image Source: Crystl, Crative Commons I’ve used that same set of blue glass bowls time and again. Lovely. A quarter of my bookcase is devoted to holding cookbooks that I rarely ever use*. I was taught...
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right makes might
Image Source: Nick Hobgood, Wikimedia Commons Living with no TV & limited internet access has given me plenty of time to read. (Whether I actually *use* all of that time to read is another matter!)...
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House wife/City wife
Image Source: Lori L. Stalteri, Creative Commons I’m beginning to think that this, homemaking (or at least some version of it), is my purpose. In an earlier time, perhaps it’s all that would have been...
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drawings we have lived
Image Source: Creative Commons KatieThebeau “each one of us should then speak of his roads, his crossroads, his roadside benches; each one of us should make a surveyor’s map of his lost fields and...
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writing on walls
In my bag, I keep a tattered hard-bound notebook (think pseudo moleskine) to record interesting quotes I find while reading. In the absence of anything productive to say (for this blog, anyway–I’ve got...
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“I’ll know it when I see it”
Image Source: Jimmy_Joe, Creative Commons In 8th grade, I learned to navigate by map. As part of the school Speech team, I spent frigid winter Saturdays wandering other communities’ high school...
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someday I’ll see home
Image Source: MSGV Michael Gil Creative Commons If home is where the heart is than my home is where you are. But it’s getting oh so hard to spend these days without my heart. -Relient K After a...
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speaking of place
…I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through. And I am replying, “Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.” -Jack Gilbert, Say You Love...
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christmas spirit
Nisse & Dala Horse nestled above a window in Koldinghus Museum. Image Source: Author In northern lands of midnight sun, Christmas is a welcome reprieve. When the sun peeks above the horizon for...
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