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Tim Van Deelen

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Plain member

Seventy-five years ago (October 27, 1949), Sand County Almanac (SCA) was published (Oxford University Press). It emerged from a great collection of essays and musings

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One Thing

So. What’ll it be today? Rage or despair? Or can I manage to set them aside for a while? At least enough to get my

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Preemptive

Sunday morning’s sermon centered a theme of showing God’s love in the world. It frequently does, this being a favorite topic of Pastor Karen –

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Rhythms

Monday morning with no obligations claims the gift it is. I got up old-man early anyway. Such is the power of habit, and circadian rhythms,

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Windigo

At 5a.m. Monday, I am on my second watch, trying not to shiver. The sun rose moments ago, a laser point anticipated by hours of

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Overburdened

I’ve seen this before, deer flies bold enough and brazen. You hear them, pounding themselves on the windshield and against the door and laying siege

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Seeing the cougar

A stream with no tributaries is a first-order stream. One with only first-order tributaries is second order and so-forth with ever increasing fractal complexity. So

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