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A Time of Healing and Transformation
Is it too late?
Aug 24
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Writing Wrongs
Free at Last!
Aug 19
Passages to Freedom
A lifelong quest
Aug 4
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Building Community with Baseball
May 25
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GROWING UP OUT OF AFRICA
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Beach Requiem
Jun 7
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Mug Shots
Jun 7
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AN AMERICAN PARADOX
Jul 13
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The Walls Come Tumbling Down
Jul 8
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End of the World
...as we know it.
Aug 2
Freedom Road
Do I dare take it?
Jul 31
An Economics of Doughnuts
…Living in the Sweet Spot
Jul 19
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AN AMERICAN PARADOX
Irony of War and Peace
Jul 13
2
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The Walls Come Tumbling Down
Even so, they remember.
Jul 8
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A Time of Profound Change
…micro and macro metamorphosis
Jul 4
Of Assemblies and Doughnuts
…if we imagine it, we can realize it.
Jul 1
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A LANTERN FOR PEACE: CLOSING THE CYCLE
Three flames and a lantern
Jun 26
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Freedom Road
Do I dare take it?
Jul 31
Glacier: Majestic Still
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 25
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Glacier: Mountain Majesty
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 25
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Yellowstone: Extreme Life
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 25
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Yellowstone: Extreme Heat
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 25
Flathead Lake: Bison Range
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 23
Grand Teton: Rocky Tors
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 18
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Craters of the Moon: Alienscape
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 18

Rays of Dawn

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An Economics of Doughnuts
…Living in the Sweet Spot
Jul 19
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Of Assemblies and Doughnuts
…if we imagine it, we can realize it.
Jul 1
1
Building Community with Baseball
…carrying us to the future
May 25
3
3
The Human Condition in a Sunflower
...A Metamorphosis
May 14
1
Introduction to Rays of Dawn
Behind storm clouds of fear and resistance, rays of dawn arise.
Apr 30
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LargerWhole

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A Time of Profound Change
…micro and macro metamorphosis
Jul 4
The Human Condition in a Sunflower
...A Metamorphosis
May 14
1
Reality: That That I Am
I am the energy that makes the rivers flow, the winds to blow, your body grow, the sky to snow. I am the spirit beneath the baby’s cry; the birds that…
May 10
1
Reality and Truth
We war over whose truth is the true truth, none of which truly is.
May 9
Introduction to PhotoVerse
...when a photo evokes a verse – or, upon rare occasion, the reverse.
May 1
Introduction to Rays of Dawn
Behind storm clouds of fear and resistance, rays of dawn arise.
Apr 30
1
Awakening to Apocalypse
“Apocalypse” does not mean doom.
Apr 30
2
1
What is Peace?
"...the wholeness created by right relationships with oneself, other persons, other cultures, other life, Earth, and the larger whole of which all are a…
Apr 26
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EarthCommunity

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End of the World
...as we know it.
Aug 2
An Economics of Doughnuts
…Living in the Sweet Spot
Jul 19
1
1
Glacier: Majestic Still
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 25
1
Glacier: Mountain Majesty
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 25
1
Yellowstone: Extreme Life
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 25
1
Yellowstone: Extreme Heat
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 25
Flathead Lake: Bison Range
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 23
Grand Teton: Rocky Tors
Idylls of the Parks
Jun 18
2

HumanCommunity

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A Time of Healing and Transformation
Is it too late?
Aug 24
1
2
End of the World
...as we know it.
Aug 2
An Economics of Doughnuts
…Living in the Sweet Spot
Jul 19
1
1
AN AMERICAN PARADOX
Irony of War and Peace
Jul 13
2
1
The Walls Come Tumbling Down
Even so, they remember.
Jul 8
2
A Time of Profound Change
…micro and macro metamorphosis
Jul 4
Of Assemblies and Doughnuts
…if we imagine it, we can realize it.
Jul 1
1
A LANTERN FOR PEACE: CLOSING THE CYCLE
Three flames and a lantern
Jun 26
1

Self

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Writing Wrongs
Free at Last!
Aug 19
Passages to Freedom
A lifelong quest
Aug 4
1
Freedom Road
Do I dare take it?
Jul 31
Mug Shots
Growing up on a coffee cup…
Jun 7
2
1
Building Community with Baseball
…carrying us to the future
May 25
3
3
The Human Condition in a Sunflower
...A Metamorphosis
May 14
1
Reality: That That I Am
I am the energy that makes the rivers flow, the winds to blow, your body grow, the sky to snow. I am the spirit beneath the baby’s cry; the birds that…
May 10
1
Reality and Truth
We war over whose truth is the true truth, none of which truly is.
May 9
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