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Seeing Red
I am heartbroken…. I have called Minnesota “home” my entire life. And there is something remarkably strange about knowing your life is occurring in a place and time that will one day be depicted within history books. Some days I wake up to a silence that holds all the promise and possibility of normalcy, and…
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Return to Your Senses
Nothing would be the same after that day…nor could I understand all the ways that was true. I was in a deep sleep when the phone trilled. Certain I had once again overslept; my nervous system launched its menagerie of physical sensations that expressed its state of panic as my mind quickly composed another version…
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Rapt
My encounters with eagles have historically been…well, complicated. Seeing one has always felt magical. But my earlier encounters often came with baggage that made them equally distressing. I grew up at a time when bald eagles were on the endangered species list. To see one was a rare experience. And it was precisely this fact…
