Yesterday, our most recent blanket of snow provided a glimpse back for me. As I waited for my daughters to get off the bus I had the time and inclination to step into the middle of the road our house resides on in Carlisle. Of course this wouldn’t typically be remarkable except for [...]

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Blue skies are here again…at least temporarily. Following back to back storms it has been refreshing to look beyond at the vista, as it were, instead of the the snowplow in front of me or the car collision just to the right. Today was the first outright beautiful winter day, albeit, freezing cold.
Encouraged [...]

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Here we sit in New England waiting for the first Big storm of the season, schools are closing early, streets rolling up and talk of white out conditions are all over the t.v and web. For me, after the initial rush to rework interdependent schedules, the calm before the storm has set in. [...]

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My daughter Emily and I took a long hike down from the Visitor’s Center at Minute Man National Park, over the Old North Bridge, until we were at the river’s edge and looking toward the Old Manse. It’s wonderful to have such an enthusiastic partner beside me on a morning that was not yet [...]

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