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Michael Kennedy
3 days ago1 min read
From Twig to Titan: The Quiet Wisdom of a Tree
Once I was nothing but a twig. The softest breeze rocked my world. I’ve been stepped on, defiled, and worse, ignored. In winters, I...
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Michael Kennedy
7 days ago2 min read
The Silent Language of Books, Sunrises, and Trees
What can a book say? Can it utter a single word? No, not one. And yet, as Carl Sagan marveled, “What an astonishing thing a book is…...
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Michael Kennedy
Dec 152 min read
An Unusual Santa Story
With Glenn W. Turner at his Lake Mary, FL home. Glenn W. Turner was a controversial and charismatic man known as “the harelip son of a...
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Michael Kennedy
Dec 122 min read
Wake the Morning
In his excellent book, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows , John Koenig creates words by using combinations and fragments of Greek words...
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Michael Kennedy
Nov 252 min read
The Quiet Magic of a Sunrise Walk on a Lake Tahoe Pier
A walk on a Lake Tahoe pier, especially at sunrise, inspires a reverence only the natural world can evoke. The imagery of the mountains...
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Michael Kennedy
Oct 282 min read
Season of the Witch
Depending on your point of view, the world around you can seem like a dream or a nightmare worthy of a painter and poet like William...
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Michael Kennedy
Oct 53 min read
Giving Back
Answering the call of generosity In one of his commencement speeches, Kurt Vonnegut said this to the freshly minted graduates: "You will...
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Michael Kennedy
Sep 172 min read
The Story We Tell Ourselves
Sometimes in life the script we’re given no longer fits the story we want to live. Illustration by Maurice Sendak in Robert Graves...
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Michael Kennedy
Sep 82 min read
Teri Smith, My Artist Friend
Teri Smith’s watercolors were featured in Moonshine Ink in November 2023, they caught my eye, and I wanted to see more. This led to a...
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Michael Kennedy
Sep 32 min read
What the Brothers Grimm Got Wrong
"I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell." ~ Walt Whitman The Juniper Tree is a story by the Brothers...
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Michael Kennedy
Aug 161 min read
Pier Pleasure on Lake Tahoe
Seven unforgettable moments on, under, and near the piers of Big Blue You feel a cosmic connection to something other-worldly when you...
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Michael Kennedy
Aug 33 min read
The Lesson of the Juniper Tree
I'm standing on the root of a Juniper Tree, my Journal open under the shade from its heavy, twisted branches stretching in every...
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Michael Kennedy
Jul 241 min read
The Wolf We Draw
A teacher asked his grade-school students to draw a picture of a wolf. Their drawings all had wolves with sharp fangs and sinister eyes....
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Michael Kennedy
Jul 134 min read
To Read or Not to Read
Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are We study and read books not just to gain knowledge and ideas from other people, but to feed...
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Michael Kennedy
Jun 302 min read
Wonderlust
And the search for yūgen It's one thing to be amazed by a Gandalf or Dumbledore, wise sages and guides who don't exist; but it's quite...
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Michael Kennedy
Jun 206 min read
The Ripple Effect
Hacking our way through life in order to get ahead. Shortcuts and hook points and anything else we can do for an edge. It's a rush to the...
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Michael Kennedy
Jun 172 min read
Obscure Enlightenment
I hike alone up the mountains in my backyard. Deep in the woods. Sometimes at dawn and sometimes late in the day. I'm not afraid of the...
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Michael Kennedy
Jun 166 min read
A Touch of Oz
The Inspirational Story of Two-Time Olympian, Osvaldo Ancinas He's too humble to admit it, but Osvaldo's journey from his hometown of...
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Michael Kennedy
Apr 223 min read
Wisdom of the Wolf
Black Wolf encounter in Olympic Valley, CA (June 17th, 2019 - 6:35pm) The interesting thing about finding yourself in a bad spot is you...
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Michael Kennedy
Apr 83 min read
Deadwood Society
Lurking in the mountains of Olympic Valley, California, among the lifeless trunks of trees which once stood tall and majestic, are faces...
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Michael Kennedy
Apr 62 min read
Don't just do something, sit there!
Jevons Paradox and the Efficiency Trap As resources are used more efficiently, we end up using more of the thing, not less. As...
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Michael Kennedy
Mar 272 min read
Dalton's Run
"Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood For nothing now can ever come to any good." ~ W. H. Auden's Funeral Blues Dalton's world had...
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Michael Kennedy
Mar 183 min read
Delicacies of Tahoe
And our dance with the mountain The emotional ingredients of sights, sounds and textures, if bottled, could give the Chicago-based...
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Michael Kennedy
Mar 93 min read
Tahoe Blizzard / 3.24
Far East Center, Palisades Tahoe On Wednesday, February 28th, it was a Spring-like day, warm enough to take a dip in the Lake. It was the...
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