Month: December 2021
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New Year’s Resolution
Before I get around to proclaiming my new year’s resolution, I should tell you about my favorite corner of earth. I find myself returning to this part of the world time and time again. The first country I visited was Costa Rica, then Argentina and a short stint in Chile; after that, Brazil, and the…
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Journey through Siberia
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”-Anthony Bourdain…
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Finding Beauty
In the year 1490, Leonardo da Vinci sketched the Vitruvian Man, his idea of a perfect human form. Being a man of math and science, it inscribed the ideal proportions of the body within a circle and a square, an analogy for the workings of the universe; and of course being a man, it was…
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Using Open-Source Data To Explore Tyler State Park
My first grasp of the internet was all about free music, a user-sharing service called Napster, and a media player called Winamp. That was then; the internet now feels like a vast blackhole of information, promising to create chaos as well as the opportunity to tackle the greatest challenges of our time, like climate change,…
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To Make a Garden
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or…
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Holiday Baking Expedition: A Modified Panettone
Panettone is an Italian sweet bread eaten during the Christmas holiday. A search for a traditional panettone recipe will prescribe that it is made with a sourdough starter, 3 different refreshes before reaching the final dough mix, taking around 3 days to finish. A search for the perfect picture panettone will show a dome shaped…
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