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Trip to the Midwest July 2009 Part 1
Why am I here again? I’ve been to WI 6 or 7 times in the last year, yet I am there again… Well, I was asked to speak at the Chippewa Valley Roundup this year. This is the 12th Annual Chippewa Valley Roundup, and a little more than 12 years ago I was actually part of the organizing committee for the roundup, that was before a resentment or two kicked in. I landed in MSP…
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The Exchange
I’ve been friends with Pat and Brenda for almost 15 years. During that 15 years I have watched their children grow up from 4 year old terrors to adults with responsibilities that they take seriously. It has been a pleasure to watch. For the last few years the Pat and Brenda have been looking forward to the day when their children would be away from the house and they would effectively be free. I must…
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The C Word
Sometimes CUNT is the appropriate word. We’ve all met her, she has no respect for other people, she knows she’s better than everyone else, and she makes sure we all know it. There are specific moments when I want to call a woman a CUNT, usually when she does something that interferes with my happiness. Now I want to know if it’s ok for a woman to call another woman CUNT? Is it like FAGGOT…
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Just one more look… but it's never enough
It’s when I’m not looking for him that he appears. It never seems to fail. I was walking home from the meeting and I heard his voice, I couldn’t help but look for him – it’s been years since I’ve heard his voice and it’s still like a symphony exploding in me. Then I spotted him, his closely shaved head and short go-t lost to the majesty of his sparkling blue eyes. His eyes were…
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Only The Lonely
Over the last several months I’ve been fortunate (or unfortunate – depending on how you want to look at it) enough to have heard from several different people how lonely, depressed or just out of sorts they seem to be. My advice to each of them has been the same: Maybe you should go to more meetings. It’s easy to give the same advice to these people when I met each of them in a…
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Busy
It’s been a very busy week. Work is busy anyway, Jim will be traveling quite a lot for a Client and we need to make sure he has everything he may need for those trips. We also have a lot of Clients that need little things, things that only Jim can answer and take just a few minutes, 5 or 6 such requests can really add up to a lot of time that is taken…
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WIsconsin Trip – Summer 2009 – part 2 (Coulee Region)
First a little background information. Coulee “in Wisconsin, they are the product of nearly a half million years of erosion, unmodified by glaciation. The loose rocks at the base of the wall form what are called scree slopes. These are formed when chunks of the canyon wall give way in a rockslide. Left alone, the valleys are often woodland, with the ridgetops transitioning into tallgrass prairie when not turned into pasture or used for row…
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WIsconsin Trip – Summer 2009 – part 1 (Chippewa Valley)
I awoke in DC early Thursday morning and despite the clear skies that followed the severe thunderstorms that night, my flight was canceled. I didn’t know that until I reached the airport – having failed to check my flight status before heading out the door that morning. Delta/NWA booked me on a relatively similar flight and I arrived in La Crosse, WI only an hour or so later than I had planned. Flying into La…
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Humbling
I’ve been asked to speak at the Chippewa Valley Roundup this year. This is one of those crazy things that doesn’t seem like it can be real. If my memory serves me well, I helped do the groundwork to get this roundup up and running all those years ago. Shortly before it came to be a reality is when I copped my resentment and left the group, but I was there at the beginning and…
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Thump… Thump…. Thump
So at Wednesday nights meeting I got pretty frustrated. I interpreted a lot of folk that shared to say that it was ok to just give living amends to immediate family or co-workers as that’s what they really need. ok, it was one of many things that got on my nerves and maybe I was just in the wrong spot (I had considered going home, but changed my mind – *slaps self in head*) The…
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