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Photo Challenge: Satisfaction

  The sun leaves just the sky behind, a watery arch over the prairie, and my feet cling to the...
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Photo Challenge: Collage

How many times did I ask on a breath and a thought that you consider the moment? Consider joining me...
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Caring for the Lead Mare

It was a perfect day. There were just enough clouds to soften the heat. The front gate didn't open once all day...
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Photo Challenge: Evanescent

After the bay gelding's leg is doctored and wrapped, I walk the fence line looking at bent posts and hair...
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Photo Challenge: The Road Taken.

  Dreams are only transparent. On this routine day, let my eyes close in simple praise for ordinary moments of...
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Photo Challenge: Against the Odds

Roused by a whisper from a lost distance, through cold glass windows in deserted basements, down wet alleys, past dumpsters...
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Photo Challenge: Repurpose

All of us here, we used to be someone else. We each had a plan; it was meant to go...
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Climate Change: Not Just Bad for Polar Bears.

Farm kids, like me, learn early that a healthy anxiety about the weather is the subtext of every task--from lambing season, to...
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Photo Challenge: Resilient

This out-flat prairie, sun burned and wind-scraped, spends winter draped in the dull range of color called earth tones; upscale...
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Remembrance: Someone's Always Dying

It's that weird week between the holidays. I never know what day it is so I mess up scheduling around Christmas,...
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