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Peace and rest at length have come,
All the day’s long toil is past;
And each heart is whispering,
‘Home, Home at last!’
–Thomas Hood
It’s good to be home. :)

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This is the Snow that Never Ends, it Just Goes On and On My Friends…

Does anyone remember “Lamb Chop”? It suddenly strikes me as rather an odd title for a children’s tv show and a better name for a serial killer or a basset hound… but I’m already wandering. If you remember that show, you will perhaps smile indulgently on my title – until the song gets stuck in [...]

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Of Ice and Sleds (a very pathetic attempt to parody “Of Mice and Men”)

Well, the time has come for an update. I was hoping for my mind to help me out and think of something intelligent and summary-like so you could know all the thoughts that have been tumbling around my brain and what I’ve been doing these past few weeks with some semblance of order, but I [...]

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The Guardians

My big little brother just sent me a poem he wrote for school. He always surprises me – he’s such an amazing mountain-bike racing, skateboarding, hiking, outdoors maniac… and then in a quiet moment he comes out with the most profound and thoughtful things. Anyway… I kind of think he’s wonderful. :) Great job, Little [...]

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Study Dance

When you’ve been reading Turabian for 3 hours straight, sometimes you just need to get up and tear around outside in the cold air until you feel like your lungs might explode. But if you like to pull things off with a little more style, you can bust one of these [...]

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A Fiercer Delight and Discontent

“For our Titanic purposes of faith and revolution, what we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer [...]

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