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Dispatches From Kansas
Essays taken from a weekly newspaper column published in the Washington County News, Washington, Kansas. Look for my book, "Dispatches From Kansas," available from Amazon.com, from the author or Town Crier Bookstore, 716 Commercial, Emporia.
Friday, March 06, 2015
Saturday, February 28, 2015
A month of surprises
February is not a month given to surprises. It knows its pitiable place in the pantheon of the Roman calendar—named not for a god but a ritual—knows that it was a late inclusion to fill the interminable blank space the Romans left for winter, knows it was short-changed on days, and knows, too, that the inclusion of that first r would render it virtually unpronounceable for much of the world's population. Still, February has a role and it performs it well, even if that role is as bland and uninteresting as a bowl of oatmeal.
Until this year, that is. For some reason—climate change, fracking, gas prices falling below two dollars per gallon, a shift in the space-time continuum—February has deviated from its routine. Its monotonous predictability has proven unpredictable.
My first surprise came upon opening my electric bill. Normally a thing of dread (our 110-year-old farmhouse has all the insulation of a wood rat's den), the bill turned out to be the lowest ever for a January. It was so low that I checked the name on the bill to see if maybe I had opened my neighbor's mail by mistake.
January's unseasonably warm weather continued into February, though with a schizophrenic messiness. Days of whiteouts and blowing snow morphed into springlike days with temperatures in the seventies. Records fell across the state for the highest February temperatures ever recorded, and skies were filled with northbound geese. It didn't matter that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, thus guaranteeing another six weeks of winter. The common consensus around here was that if neither the National Weather Service or the Farmer's Almanac have any clue over long-range forecasts, then only a damned fool or an Easterner would take the word (or shadow) of a rodent.
Forecasters were quick to follow the unsettled pattern with giddy pronouncements about the impending tornado season. While I like reminders to clean out my basement and plan for severe weather, it seemed a little early to start trash-talking spring, and anyway we had our hands full enough with wild weather fluctuations to start wringing our hands over an unforeseeable future.
During the last storm, as the wind howled down from the north and blowing snow dropped visibility to a quarter mile, a big tree limb snapped off and draped itself over the electrical line to our house.
Power was out all over town, and though we still had electricity, I wasn't positive it would last. A call to the electrical company garnered a promise that a linesman would come out and at least provide advice as the line from house to pole was ultimately my responsibility. Due to the innumerable problems inflicting the company during the blizzard, the dispatcher said, he couldn't say when, if ever, I could expect to see the linesman.
As the first week gave way to the second without a visitation, I began to study the offending limb with the idea of removing it myself. Without getting electrocuted, that is. A long narrow snag jutted out over the line, with most of the weight was cradled by lower limbs. If I could find something to reach that high, I reasoned, it might be possible to simply push the limb off.
Google queries turned up thousands of webpages all but guaranteeing instant death should I handle, grasp, graze or in any other manner come into contact with an object touching a power line, and several others claimed that wood could act as a conductor. I could find dozens of documented cases of homeowners meeting their demise by doing exactly what I proposed, but not one success story.
Still, how hard could it be? If I used a fiberglass painter pole to shove it off, would that act as a conductor? And anyway, how electrified could the limb be? I mean, if it carried enough electricity to fry me to cinders, wouldn't the entire tree be electrified?
I decided to experiment. One balmy, sun-blessed day I walked out and with only minor trepidation lay a hand on the tree trunk. It was cool to the touch, slightly rough. No buzz. That in itself was something of a surprise, considering all I'd read.
Empowered, I retrieved a saw and started trimming away some of the lower limbs. As they gave way, the broken branch sagged toward the ground, adding pressure to the power line while simultaneously shifting the snag to a steeper pitch. Very carefully I removed the supporting limbs while keeping an eye on the branch dangling above me. When it appeared ready to fall on its own, I found a fallen sapling with a nice forked end and used it to apply pressure to the branch's base. Three sharp shoves and the whole thing came crashing down, narrowly missing both the shed and myself. The power line was intact.
That in itself was February's biggest surprise. Past attempts at tree trimming always ended in disaster, so this was a first.
That doesn't mean, however, that I'm feeling cocky. For the rest of the month I'm laying low. There's still a lot of February left, and I've never been one for surprises.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Halfway from then to there
What I remember, what comes to me most strongly now in the opening stages of a winter that leaves me chilled to the bone, was the heat. It radiated off the pavement of downtown Courtland like a living thing bent on incinerating the throngs of people lining the streets and charring the cars and the trucks and the colorful floats making their slow, languorous way down Main Street. It seared the rubbery skin of the amusement park inflatables in city park until they threw back their own infernal heat like so many orange-black coals smoldering in the grass below the silvery dome of the water tower. The heat soaked into everything—the grass and the pavement and the white sands of the volleyball pits and the metal frames of the cars and the bricks and the glass and the benches and the enclosed oven-like prison of the beer garden—so that it seemed to emanate from all angles and all sides, infinite and inescapable.
Bad as it was—113 degrees on the heat index scale, a number that seemed laughingly low—the sizzling heat was like a balmy spring day compared to the hellish conditions cloying the cinderblock barbecue pit tucked in a corner by the alley where hundreds of chicken halves were roasted en masse, the smoke of their blistered skin rising like a diaphanous pillar into a pale cerulean sky bereft of clouds or color or the slightest whisper of a breeze. The bodies of those red-faced workers cleaning and cutting and sorting and spicing and grilling those truncated chickens steamed in the blast furnace temperature, their clothes, stained by an accretion of crystalized salt, pasted to their forms like wet paint. They guzzled liquids and Taterade, a potent, sweet concoction of gin, lemonade, lemons, oranges, limes and powdered sugar, until they felt waterlogged and giddy, and batting away the flies unceasingly labored over the smoking, cherry-red coals, unpacking fresh chicken halves and sliding them into wire cages by the tens and twenties, uncomplaining and unstoppable, certain of their role, the part they played in a custom that stretched back five decades.
It was the 50th anniversary of Courtland's annual Fun Day—two days, actually, though the first day somehow didn't count as if it were merely a practice run prefacing the main event—and Lori and I were there to photograph it from start to finish. During that long weekend we put in gruelingly long hours, witnessed every facet of every event regardless of the atmospheric extremes and became, in essence, honorary residents. And now, midway between the 50th and the 51st, we've been invited back for a discussion on the festivities from an outsiders' point of view.
Which is easier said than done. Normally I keep copious notes of our travels in a diary I've kept since 1973, but upon our return from Courtland, crispy and fried and altogether exhausted, we faced similarly long hours in our other jobs and, in my case, deadlines that brooked no delays. Unfortunately, writing my autobiography always plays second fiddle to writing for pay, plus there were more than 4,000 images of Courtland to cull and process. My own historical record would forever have a gap, like the Nixon tapes only less contestable.
With the absence of written reflections, all I had to go on was my memory, and that wasn't too good. During four of the six months separating then from now, medications for nerve damage brought on by shingles have left me with short-term memory loss and random misfiring of my cerebral synapses. To be fair I had been warned that the drugs could make me suicidal, homicidal or stupid. Thankfully the first two never materialized.
The stupid part they nailed on the head. And while most of the effects have faded to near-obscurity, I have occasional moments when my mind goes blank, when simple things such as our address or phone number are temporarily wiped from my brain, when I forget where I'm at or what I was doing or where I was going. It can be quite comical at times. The medication also provides a legitimate excuse for my behavior, which isn't an altogether bad thing.
It doesn't, however, help me much in dredging up a coherent recollection of those two days.
I realized early on that my photographs would have to fill in the missing blanks. Fortunately, for memory's sake, the thousands of images catalogued in Lightroom are as sequential as possible when using two cameras. Sitting in my cool—sometimes too cool—home office, I could recreate the entire experience from start to finish, and, too, I could see my failures as well as my triumphs.
In retrospect, given enough time to make lens changes (always a logistical challenge when one's camera bag is two or three blocks away and suddenly, in the middle of the action, the photographer decides a speciality lens would be the preferred choice) I would have done some things differently. I would have asked the organizers for clouds to filter the sun. I would have kept myself more hydrated than I did, though to the town's credit cold water was offered everywhere I went, and lemonade—or what I thought to be lemonade but wasn't—was generously offered at the chicken pit. I was a little fuzzy on the details of what I was drinking, having misunderstood "Taterade" for "lemonade" thanks to hearing loss and what I was beginning to believe was the onset of heat stroke, and fuzzier still were the subsequent images taken in the aftermath after I staggered dazed and blistered from the chicken pit, weighed down with an alcoholic buzz and a brace of heavy cameras. While technically not perfect, those images, too, tell the story.
There were other misunderstandings, including one specific to Republic County. Somewhere during that first afternoon I was approached by a very nice woman who told me how much she appreciated my work. She introduced me to her family, and we talked together off and on for two days. It wasn't until the second day, however, that she realized that I was not, in fact, Jim Richardson, the famed National Geographic photographer who has done so much to tell the story of neighboring Cuba. Perhaps it's inevitable that any grizzled, bearded, Nikon-toting, broad-brimmed-hat wearing photographer in Republic County will be automatically assumed to be Richardson, though it plays havoc with the hapless, non-Richardsonian photographer's ego.
It comes to me that my tale is anything but sequential. Though our lives follow a proscribed trajectory rooted in the movement of planets and galaxies pinwheeling through the universe, our memory is rarely linear. Sometimes arbitrary, sometimes peculiar in the details it summons, memory is a will-of-the-wisp. It goes where it will. Just now I was brought to the irrigation canal west of town for the annual duck race, witnessed by a handful of volunteers who dumped a box of plastic duckies over a foaming head gate and zoomed downstream to be ready for their painfully slow arrival. There were no cheering throngs urging their duckies toward greater haste, no crescendo of anticipation as the vanguard duckies neared the finish line, only the soft whir of grasshoppers and the sluggish whisper of water lapping the side of the canoe. A truck drove by dragging a plume of dust that rose into the air and drifted to earth with much the same pace as that of the duckies. Beers were popped to mark the occasion, though I wisely refrained.
From the clamorous Drum Safari to the closing strands of Logan Mize's electrifying concert, we tried to capture not just the outward manifestations of a small town celebration, but the very essence of Courtland culture and Courtland talent. Like other Kansas celebrations, there were the requisite cheering squads and local musicians and dancers and gymnasts, and parades where tractors and combines outnumbered vehicles ten to one. Unlike other Kansas celebrations, Courtland presented the non-requisite but nevertheless wildly entertaining whistling bellybuttons who resembled nothing more than grotesque Mr. Potato Heads wearing abbreviated tuxedos, top hats and copious amounts of red lipstick, the non-Celtic version of Riverdance as envisioned by energetic Courtland males, and a delightful choreography involving a bevy of neon-garbed beauties wielding folding lawn chairs. Fun day, or days, indeed.
We were surprised at the number of young people and children present, and of how many events were created with them in mind. From banging on drums and skillets, making paper umbrellas for drinks, rooting through piles of corn for quarters and nickels and dimes, to the gigantic slip-and-slide in the park, children seemed to be involved in almost every facet of the celebration. They were the first to take to the streets when the music fired up in the evening and shadows hung long and the first break in the heat brought a sense of relief, and they were the last to leave when the final cords died away in the starlight. On the second day, not long after the trash men swept the streets of refuse, they were the first to emerge to congregate near the starting line for the races, barely able to contain their enthusiasm not merely as bystanders but as participants. They are the future of Courtland; they are future Courtland.
We were also surprised at the town's apparent prosperity, and the sheer number of volunteers it took to make everything happen. With a population of 285, almost everybody had a role of some sort, however minor. Very few towns can pull that off.
And that, perhaps, was what struck me most. When on the final afternoon I stood atop the elevator and snapped four frames, one for each cardinal direction, little did I know that I was looking at the past and the future. There wasn't much to see other than endless agricultural fields disappearing into misty horizons and the long shadow of the elevator stretching into the east along the railroad tracks, but that emptiness spoke of constant change.
In 1885, when the town was founded, the county population stood at about 17,000 people. It was the frontier, the vanguard of western expansion. Five years later, when the first U.S. Census of Population was released, the director of the Census Bureau announced that the American frontier was closed. American settlement had reached the Pacific Ocean. The process of filling in the gaps began in earnest. In 1893, during an address to the American Historical Association, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented a paper on the significance of the frontier in American history, arguing that the frontier experience was critical to the definition of the American experience, especially in regions such as the Great Plains which had grown rapidly over the course of the previous century.
To Turner, the frontier was the "meeting point between savagery and civilization." It was what every generation of Americans had returned to as they were pulled evermore westward on a continually advancing frontier line, and what had made them what they were, with a "coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness," with a "practical inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients, that masterful grasp of material things… that restless, nervous energy, that dominant individualism." And until Americans discovered to their chagrin that their relentless westward expansion had but one insurmountable boundary—the Pacific Ocean—the frontier in mind and reality was always on the far side of the sunset.
The trend is now reversing. The Great Plains are emptying out. Looking west into the lowering sun I saw the new American frontier, counties defined as those having fewer than six residents per square mile. Republic County totters on the edge, with a mere seven residents per square mile, and surrounding counties are heading in the same direction. There are fewer people here now than at any time during the Courtland's 129-year history, and the same could be said for the county as a whole.
But Courtland is holding on. Population decline has leveled off, young families are moving back, median income is rising. It has a vibrant arts community and it really knows how to throw a party. It is a community in every sense of the word—in the best sense of the word, and it isn't giving up like some towns that will, within our lifetimes, simply disappear from the map. That fierce, implacable determination to never give up is the same driving force that Turner ascribed to the pioneers as the foundation of the American character.
I wondered what Turner would think if he could look down on Courtland from my aerial perch. I imagine the sight of such vast uninhabited reaches would have both confused and amazed him, for his synopsis of the closing of the frontier was not merely an analysis of the past but a premonition about the future. If, he suggested, the frontier had been so essential to the development of the quintessential American character, how would that character fare with its closing? At the time of its writing, his question had no answer. It was merely rhetorical, a means to an end, and the end was this: "And now four centuries from the discovery of America," he wrote, "at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history."
Surely, then, the second period of American history was one of expansion and retreat, of boom and bust and the great outward migration to urban centers. The transformation of the Great Plains would have baffled Turner, even as if sometimes baffles its residents. Sometimes the best we can do is not enough, and sometimes our hopes and dreams burn to ashes. But prairie people are good at enduring, and good at not giving up. Looking down on Courtland, having enduring a day and a half of celebratory exuberance with the best yet to come, I had an inkling that Fun Day was more than just an annual hoe-down, but somehow symbolic of the town's conviction about its place in the future. It would not disappear without a fight. It would not fade away with a whimper of regret.
High above the town, on the outskirts of the new frontier, at the opening of the third period of American history, I saw Courtland rising.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Kansas Territory Brewing Co. earns raves from fermentation club
It was hard to tell who was more surprised when the Kansas Territorial Brewing Company began filling with people on Tuesday, Feb. 10—Luke Mahin, a founder of the Courtland Fermentation Club, or Brad and Donna Portenier, owners of the microbrewery.
"I didn't know we had that many members," Mahin said, looking around the room. Across the street a small bus disgorged its passengers, all of whom made beelines for the door. "Some of these people have never been to a meeting."
Brad Portenier, busy filling coolers with unlabeled silver cans, watched as another dozen people walked in. "I hope we have enough beer," he said.
The club was there on a field trip to sample the fledgling brewery's wares as well as to discuss the process of crafting fine ales, stouts and lagers on a commercial scale. As for the microbrewery, it had just received the necessary licenses to operate and was finalizing the initial selection of beers for review by the Kansas Craft Alliance, a statewide collective of Anheuser-Busch distributors. Considering that the club's members consisted of amateur brewers who were passionate about the craft, the sampling was a perfect opportunity not only to have the company's beers critiqued but also a means to generate buzz. But first it had to pass the taste test.
On that point, there should have been no worries. Before Portenier could corral the group for a short introduction, club members were already rating the beers, with the stout, in particular, singled out for acclaim.
The fermentation club, founded in June of 2014, was created after Mahin and a friend, Tanner Johnson, researched options for serving home-brew during special events such as the annual Courtland Fun Day. They were surprised to discover that a large number of residents throughout the county were versed in making their own beers and wines, and dismayed to discover that serving home-brew at public festivities was illegal.
At the time, state laws banned the sharing of home-brew outside of the brewer's house or among anyone but the brewer's immediate family, Mahin said. Those archaic laws were struck down in mid-summer, and now under new regulations home brewers can share with club members or in invitation-only settings where the public isn't allowed.
The club is loosely organized with only about a third of its members involved in home brewing, and the others either interested or learning. ("People always say that it's the best club they ever joined," Mahin said. "It's the only meeting I go to where I don't want to drink afterwards.")
The Washington field trip was a first for the club, and also the most-attended meeting since the club's inception. About 35 people showed up.
The idea behind the microbrewery was part economic development, part historical continuity and part fun for fun's sake, Portenier said.
"Most little towns in Kansas are like where I grew up," he said. "There were 180 people in town, and I was in the biggest class in school—there were seven of us. My brother was the only one in his grade. I always wished we could do something to save that town."
Though he was born in Washington, he grew up "everywhere but here," in his words, and upon his return he and his wife, Donna, decided to stay and build. They started Bradford Build and made a success of it, but as they looked around his hometown it was evident, and depressing, to see so much of it gone, both people and businesses.
"You look at the old pictures and it's just a shadow of what it used to be," he said. "But it's not too late. We can try to keep something going here."
With that in mind, they purchased three empty buildings downtown. One became the western clothing shop, another Miss Donna's Doll House, and the third Mayberry's, a restaurant. When Duckwalls, a general store, went out of business several years ago, the Porteniers couldn't stand seeing it empty. It was time for something a little more fun, he said.
From the start, it was envisioned as a microbrewery. "The number one attraction in a town is a microbrewery," he said. "There are a lot of people who really enjoy the art and craft of making beer."
They bought a little brewery kit, assembled it, but then started having second thoughts. Not about making beer, but about the eventual size of the operation.
"We started thinking that if we're going to wash the dishes for one barrel, it won't take much longer to do the dishes for 20 barrels," he said. "You can see the kit sitting over there in a corner. We never did use it."
After putting feelers out for a qualified brewmaster, his supplier slipped him a name: Parker Harbaugh. He arranged for a meeting and knew immediately that he had his man.
"Parker brews with a passion and knows how to use a slide rule," Portenier said. "He read a whole book on water. Anybody who does that is serious about it, and he got it right."
During remodeling, they kept finding horseshoes and hand-forged items dating back a hundred years. Prior to Duckwalls, the building housed a car dealership (Portenier's father bought a '57 Chevy there), and before that—long before that—it was a livery stable.
Honoring the past, whether personal or regional, is important to Portenier. The name for the brewery came about because of his desire to promote everything local as much as possible.
"All these buildings in our downtown effort here had their abstract signed by an authorized signatory of Abraham Lincoln, so that's his signature, probably by someone else. But they'll say 'City of Washington, Kansas Territory,' so that's where that name came from."
After hiring a graphic artist to design labels, they received a letter from the U.S. Patent Office's attorney advising them of a conflict with the too-similar sounding name of the Wyoming Territory Brewing Company. "Apparently Wyoming sounds a lot like Kansas to the Patent Office," Portenier said.
He's currently working with an attorney in Wyoming to resolve the issue. He also called the owner to tell him he didn't intend to infringe on his patent. "He said he knew what I was going through," Portenier said. "He offered use of the name for one dollar per year for 50 years, after which time it automatically renews. That's the attitude of everybody in this business. It's been fun."
As for the labels, Portenier said they were doing everything they could to promote the Midwest.
"Kansas builds more aircraft than anywhere in the world," he said, "so we have one that loosely resembles Clyde Cessna's first plane. I thought that was cool. Atchison, Kansas, used to build locomotives. If you build stuff for a living, that's just impressive as heck, so we wanted to pay tribute to that." Their Breakfast Brown label shows the Burlington Zephyr, a train that in 1938 set a speed record from Denver to Chicago. Another, aptly named Summer Breeze, depicts a tornado filled with flying debris. Every label incorporates a grain elevator somewhere within the design.
Portenier has been happy with the ales that Harbaugh and Eric Helms, the associate brewer, have crafted. The stout, in particular, was a favorite, though he admitted to liking everything he's tried so far. "We wanted an IPA that didn't punch you in the nose with pine needles," Portenier said. "I think Parker hit that dead on. It has a nice IPA aroma and flavor but it's not so intense right up front."
He's eager to try the lager when it's ready in about a week, he said, adding that he doesn't know of a single other brewery that makes lagers.
The company currently offers a honey brown ale named Breakfast Brown, a lager, a stout, a red ale and a wheat beer, but intends to expand into speciality varieties, including beers using recipes from the fermentation club and other home brewers.
So far, dozens of samplings have elicited mostly rave reviews, though there have been some exceptions, Portenier said.
"One Coors Light fan sampled the stout, ended up drinking four of them and announcing it good," he said. "Others say it's too much for them. And that's okay. If everybody liked vanilla, there wouldn't be any chocolate."
Hosting the club boosted their confidence in the quality of their products, Portenier said.
"It was a shot in the arm having the club come over," he said. "Sometimes you feel like you're the only horse with a harness. They were so enthusiastic and so much fun that it was really encouraging."
Club members were equally impressed, Mahin said. "Brad's is one of the best stouts I've ever tried," he said. "I'm glad there are people like Brad who are crazy enough to do this."
A soft grand opening is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 26. "We're going to go ahead and ease into it," Portenier said. "Down the road a bit we'll have a big to-do."
On March 4 the Porteniers will take samplings down to the Kansas Craft Alliance for a final critique of the labels and beers. "I'd say so far the stout is fantastic, the IPA is fantastic—we've had good luck," he said. "I see no reason why you won't see our beers on the shelves in six to eight months, maybe a year."
For more information on the Courtland Fermentation Club, check out their Facebook page or call Mahin at 785-374-3511.
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Thursday, January 01, 2015
Transition into new
The year bleeds away to its inevitable conclusion. Outside frost and cold and a smattering of clouds but still only the faintest, nearly imperceptible luminance in the east. I glance through the blinds to see if the trashcan is still upright or dumped and its innards scattered to the four corners of northeast Kansas and cannot. Not yet. It's rare that I set out the trash the night before mainly because of worries of marauding hordes of ravenous raccoons, but realistically we'd have the same problem if the trashcan was on the side of the house in its accustomary place. In other words, the danger level doesn't change much in fifty feet. The only real concern is the wobbliness of the trashcan when perched on the uneven surface of the gravel road. Get one big coon on top and the others shoving on the side and down it will go. It wouldn't stand a chance.
The year bleeds away to its inevitable conclusion. Each morning a huge, noisy mob of crows lift off from woods along the county line and disperse to the north and the south, a black cloud of unnameable proportions. Those heading northward skirt the shadowed channel of the Big Blue as if following a line of demarcation they could in no ways breach, two separate and distinct flocks each to its own claimed side. The morning flight out and the return flight back both take about two hours, squandering half the available daylight. Why they fly so far to forage is a mystery. They freckle the skies in their raucous, untamed numbers, a river of black-feathered sentinels.
The year bleeds away to its inevitable conclusion. I drove across the bridge spanning Juganine Creek whose dry channel was littered with dead leaves and mossy stones and recalled the time I walked its length from the top of the ridge to the south to its confluence with the Big Blue. There's something fascinating about following things back to the source, certainly a backwards trajectory in my case but close enough to allow for artistic license. I think in some ways that's why people my age and older are so involved in genealogy or family history. It's not just a matter of who begat whom or when and where those begats begot but patterns and cycles and rhythms that might explain or at least allow certain indiscretions or misdemeanors. It's not who we are but how we got to be who we are. Some seek justification, others vindication. Others just like to look for the usual characters that crop up through the generations. In my family it was Doc Scurlock, an enforcer who rode with Billy the Kid until he wisely accepted a pardon from Governor Lew Wallace and lit out for new lands in the scrublands of west Texas.
The year bleeds away to its inevitable conclusion. As far as I know I'm prepared for the next step. The calendars are hung, computer folders created and files formatted and ready for entries, this year's financial records pored over and sorted and organized, a new manila file waiting in the file cabinet, photographs sorted, hard drives backed up. I can't think of anything else. It's all a mindset more than anything, something we must do due to our slavish dedication to the clock and the calendar. The solstice passed without thought or nod, an egregious lapse on my part. Solstice anchors us to star-time, the numberless clock of worlds spinning in space with each day no more than another in an endless cycle of rotations of sunlight. Sun rise, moon set. Orion lifting above the dark fringe bordering Juganine Creek, the seven nebulae of the Pleiades a ghostly smear at zenith, the changing of constellations, themselves mere fabrications of mythical beings as imagined from our lowly perspective.
The year bleeds away to its inevitable conclusion. The changing of the calendar, while largely symbolic of our culture and our civilization, always makes me feel a year older, like a birthday without cake and candles. It's not a letdown (though cake is always welcome), but more of a closure of one chapter before the seamless transition into another. Birthdays have a different feel, part surprise that I've lived this long and part somberness at the accelerating rate of abatement. The closing of the year has a more natural, organic feel to it, almost a sense of adventure in that beyond that termination lies unexplored and untrammeled lands. The year bleeds away to its inevitable conclusion, but we do not. Beyond every ending lies a new beginning.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Seasons greetings from Oz
One of the joys of being a professional photographer—a term that still gives me the hives whenever anyone says it—is the constant learning required to master the craft. This is remarkable considering that school was 12 years of unremitting torture, other than for 6th grade when I sat next to a pretty blonde named Amy. Amy, like most pretty girls in 6th grade (and 7th, 8th, and so on) was utterly clueless about my presence except for two miraculous times when I became a trend-setter. The first was when I started packing heat, a perfect replica of the Man From U.N.C.L.E's Walther, the second when I came to class wearing Beatle Boots. My newborn fame lasted all of one day, which was an education in itself.
This week I learned that if I attempt to use my 24-inch Lastolite softbox with its cheap plastic speedlight bracket in a reasonably stiff Kansas wind, things can and most probably will escalate. Believe me, I learned a lot chasing the softbox across a pasture land-mined with fresh cow pies, mostly involving the matching of photographic equipment to the state's mercurial atmospherics as well as on-the-fly foot placement during high-speed pursuit across prime Simmental rangeland. (When my wife asked if I was responsible for the mud on the carpet, all I could say is, "not really.")
I also learned upon arriving home that if one person has had a problem with a particular piece of equipment or gear, someone else has already solved it. Such was the case with the bracket. Within an hour of research a new industrial-strength metal bracket was on the way for the bargain price of $150. I figure it's worth every penny if I never again have to scrape fresh cow flop from my softbox.
I also learned a new trick for photographing people who hate to have their picture taken. For example, before getting serious with the overwrought subject, I tell them I need to make a few test shots to test my exposure. They immediately relax, and I immediately take a very good portrait. That I did this on a dear friend was probably dastardly not so much for the splendid image but for the fact that I wasted no time in posting it to Facebook. Friends in Clay County have advised me to steer clear of the area for a few weeks or months until the subject in question calms down.
During my two-and-a-half month bout with shingles I learned a lot. I learned about pain management and how to overcome limited mobility, I learned about studio and on-location lighting, I learned new Photoshop tricks and techniques, and I learned that no matter how bad things are, you have to remain optimistic. That, too, is remarkable in that I've always been an avowed pessimist. Though I always loved Winnie the Pooh's innocence and occasional brilliance, I found myself drawn to the sad, lonely, morose Eeyore. Eeyore's gloomy outlook was the perfect antithesis to Tigger's bouncy ebullience, and much more aligned with my own personality.
Yet for all of his forlorn bleakness, Eeyore occasional showed glimpses of what passed for optimism. During a particularly nasty winter storm, Eeyore was overheard to say, "It's snowing still. And freezing. However, we haven't had an earthquake lately." On another occasion Owl flew by, and though Owl didn't say anything to Eeyore, he at least noticed him, and that, Eeyore said, was very friendly and encouraging.
Friends, to Eeyore, were few and far between, but he appreciated the ones he had. When Pooh rescued his missing tail, he said, "Pooh is a real friend. Not like Some."
Friends, to me, were also rare during my much of my life. But on the drive home from my wild portrait shoot in Clay County I reflected on friends I've met since relocating to Kansas, and I realized that my fortune in finding this place was as unimaginable as it was late in my years. (I could hear Eeyore mumbling, "Better late than never, for Some.") That it happened at all was due to a good woman who had a dream she was willing to share, and for that I am forever grateful. In fact, it comes to me that marrying her was not just another form of education, as any married man will attest, but the exact moment when my personality shifted polarities from negative to positive.
The road was wet and the clouds low, and the few houses I passed were strung with Christmas lights. Topping a high ridge overlooking Randolph and the Flint Hills rolling away to the misty horizon, I was reminded of Dorothy's "there's no place like home," an overworked phrase that nevertheless rang true. For Dorothy, these vast and stark prairies were in many ways like Eeyore's antithetical opposition to Tigger. Her Kansas was hardscrabble, dusty and poor, while Oz was lush and green, a place where dreams could come true. It was a magical place where one could find their own strengths and resolutions, their own true nature. It's no wonder that Kansas has attached itself to the Oz motif, and no wonder Kansans half-mockingly call this place Oz. It's magical, and it's home, and home is filled with friends and family. There really is no place like it, and no people like its people.
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Basically I am wanting to learn what the Native Americans and Western Civilizations knew way back in the day. I want to learn how to cure ailments like skin rashes, headahes, muscle pains, digestive problems, etc., but I admit I also want to know about the ones that cause lucid dreams, hallucinations, etc. But I really dont know what this kind of study is, Ive had so many people tell me different things I got a headache from it all. Figured here atleast someone will actually know what it is I am trying to learn so that I can go where I need to go online to learn it.
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Hate to disappoint you in your venture, but I believe that you'll find that most of the pharmaceutical preparations currently on the market are much,much more effective than any natural product. The branch of science that you'er seeking is termed PHARMACOGNOSY.Many pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars in the investigation of plant or animal products which exhibit physiological activity.
Also check under herbalism, especially if you are looking to grow, harvest, and/or make herbal formulas of some kind. There are alot of different schools of thought and materia medicas when it comes to herbalism and you can probably find one that suits your needs.
A book i have would be right up your alley. He has tried or knew someone else that tried a multitude of medicinal plants. The very descriptive text will have you rolling in the aisles or shaking in horror. Good description of plants, uses and history. Just use comman sense.
Book is "AMERICAN MEDICINAL PLANTS" by Charles E Millspaugh First published in 1892 by John C Yorston & co. My edition was published in 1974 by Dover Publications INC, NY,NY My book is not for sale at any price. I injoy reading it too much.

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I am looking for a pattern for a bridal garter to make for my stepsons bride. The wedding will be in April and I have checked the internet but haven't found anything that appeals to me. Would any one have something to share? Thank you for any help you can provide.
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My dog has been shaking her head Everytime she sits up it more of a wobbling then a shaking tho and her nose is dry and she seems to just want to lay down and sleep and she is usually up wanting to play around and stuff and she just started doing this 2 hours ago and I don't know what to do somebody please help me out this is my first dog
What kind of dog is this? There's a fatal disease called wobblers disease, my friend's doberman died very suddenly of it. It affects larger breeds. Please get to the vet asap! According to wikipedia, it can be treated surgically now. Hopefully this is an ear infection, ear mites, or something much less serious as annz suggested.
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It's holiday baking like you've never seen before. It's Operation Cookie Bake and Amber Jones is the general. Last year, Jones baked more than 6,000 cookies for the... - 10.17.2007, StarPulse
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Name: Amber Jones State: California, USA Age: 16 Personality: Shes quite bubbly and upbeat. She likes for things to go her way and when things dont go to plan she calls daddy to... - 10.18.2009, YouTube
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13.05.2012 [Freeport Journal-Standard] - Aleesha Cleaver had three hits in both wins for Dakota and Amber Jones and Jaycee Cleaver each had five hits in the two wins. GERMAN VALLEY — Forreston/Polo (28-7) easily topped Boylan, winning in six innings. Meg Cullor and Ashley Long both had big
Vanderbilt honors top graduates during Commencement
11.05.2012 [Vanderbilt University News] - Scarlet Amber Jones, from Clarksdale, Miss., Founder's Medalist for the Owen Graduate School of Management, is graduating with a master of business administration. Jones was the recipient of the Henderson and Fitzgerald scholarships and was elected to
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09.05.2012 [Telegraph Neighbors] - Mabel Garcia, Amelie Gilbert, Andrew Gogan, Michaela Gregory, Luke Guertler, Sean Hagerty, Jaden Henry, Connie Hovey, Jingming Huang, Randy Jackson, Sarah James, Tori Jarvis, Megan Jensen, Amber Jones, Ellice Kim, Rachel Kirby, Kendra Krueger
Late goal helps No. 4 Villa Duchesne wrap up first Metro League title
08.05.2012 [STLtoday.com] - Not long after MICDS freshman Amber Jones left after suffering an ankle injury, the Rams nearly scored when a long-range ball from Theresa Thompson went off the crossbar. Midway through the half, MICDS was dangerous on one of its corners.
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2012.06.27 @Amber_Jones_ I'll tell you later if you're on my team!
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2012.06.27 "@Jamie_Daniels_3: Just found out the games for #OfficeOlympics on Friday...this is gonna be madness!" What are they!? Am I gonna die?
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2012.06.27 Photo: Si vous adorez New York, ce livre est fait pour vous! Amber Jones a eu la brillante idée d'enfermer... http://t.co/pHkfG2Gb
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DIS Mariners teams continue their winning ways
04.05.2012 [Island Ad-Vantages] - We had plenty of offense in this game against BC, with Sydney helping herself with two singles and two RBIs, Janelle Ciomei a double and two singles with an RBI, Chelsea Brown two singles with two RBIs, and Amber Jones, Julie Hutchins, Michala Brown
Honor Roll: Four Oaks Middle
13.05.2012 [TheHerald] - Grade 8 – Santos Adams, Jatina Cradick, Haley Danger, Katelyn Futrell, Hannah Harrell, Zachary Jacobs, Amber Jones, Alanah Miller, Emily Morgan, Sergio Ramirez, Jacob Whaley, Emily Woodard, Wynter Autry, Ethan Dyer, Ceria Mickens, Diamond Waxton
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26.04.2012 [Island Ad-Vantages] - Amber Jones had two singles and a double for two RBIs, Julie Hutchins three singles and two RBIs, Janelle Ciomei a double and a triple and an RBI, Chelsea Brown a single and a double and an RBI, Haley Brewer and Michala Brown, each two singles and an
Gholston is ASWA Player of the Year
20.04.2012 [Moulton Advertiser] - Gholston joins the ranks of cousin Amber Jones to claim the award mulitple times. In Class 2A, Hatton's Jordan Johnson was a finalist as well. She led her team to an upset bid in the Class 2A, Area 16 tournament and to another upset over Westminster
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By Beth Sharp Friday 24 January 2014 Updated: 28/01 23:18
A COUNTY councillor who found funding for grit bins in Rubery said it was disgraceful the local authority did not provide them itself.
Coun Peter McDonald said Rubery residents can now expect the long-awaited grit bins to appear on Clent Road, The Avenue, Rednal Hill Lane, Richmond Road/Lyndon Road and Chapelfield Mews after they were all purchased through his divisional fund.
Coun McDonald said with many of the Rubery roads not being on the grit run, the bins were needed more now than ever.
"It has been a ridiculous situation where grit bins have clearly been needed yet the county council has refused to install them.
"Hopefully now Rubery side streets will be much more prepared for the worst of the coming winter," he added.
According to the council's records, Clent Road, Richmond Road/Lyndon Road and Chapelfield Mews were denied grit bins when they were requested because they did not meet the assessment criteria.
While The Avenue was denied because it was already on a designated gritting route and Rednal Hill Lane had not had a request submitted at all.
Coun John Smith OBE, responsible for highways, said the council assessed each request for a new grit bin against a set of criteria.
It takes into consideration the gradient of the road, whether the location is near to a bends or junctions, if it is included on the designated gritting routes, the level of traffic, the number of surrounding properties and the proximity of vulnerable residents.
"This has been the case for a number of years - decisions are not based on 'cutbacks' as it has been claimed.
"The divisional funds allocated to all county councillors have proved popular as it allows local members the opportunity to respond to requests like this from residents in their divisions, which is what has happened in this case," he added.
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Been reading a lot on here but haven't posted much. I made the move last Jan. from Mr. Beer to 5 gallon extract bacthes. I have 4 cases of recently brewed beer carbing. One batch I just bottled (Irish Red) and a Pumpkin Ale that has been in the bottles for 1 week. We keep our house pretty cool in the winter, about 60-63F. I can let my bottles carb up anywhere in the house at about 60F, or I can move them into our boiler room that gets to around 70F or even warmer, but it is not consistent. I'm looking for the best place to get a good 2 week carbonation going...any suggestions? Thanks!
Carbonation is just another fermentation by the same strand of yeast that made your beer. If they're used to working in one spot in your house that's a steady temp, I wouldn't see any reason not to put your bottles in that exact same spot.
Check the recommended fermentation temps for the type of yeast you are using and go from there. I usually get mine into the case and let them carbonate right where I had it in the primary
"Your HYDROMETER is the only BEST indicator of fermentation activity. Nothing else is accurate or consistent"...Revvy
Move it to the warm place. The temp and strain used for bottle conditioning have very, very little impact on the flavor of the beer. Heck, I've used T-58 at 80F for lagers. National beer judges were oblivious to the spicy Belgian strain.


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AMA Houston Healthcare Marketing Event Explores How to Use Emerging Technologies to Create Marketing Opportunities.
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What: "Creating New Healthcare Marketing Opportunities by Leveraging Technology Innovations," presented by AMA Houston Healthcare Special Interest Group When: Thursday, November 16, 2006 Where: The Courtyard on St. James Place 1885 St. James Place Houston, Texas 77056 www.CourtyardonStJames.com Time: 7:30 - 7:45 a.m. - Registration and breakfast 7:45 - 8:00 a.m. - Announcement & speaker introduction 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Presentation & panel discussion 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. - Audience questions
REGISTRATION: Reservations can be made online at www.amahouston.org. Advance registration is $25 for AMA members, $45 for non-members and $18 for students. Registration at the event is $35 for AMA members and $55 for non-members. Walk-ins will not be assured seating.
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Jacksonville-based Gate Concrete Products Co., a producer of prestressed concrete products for use in bridges and building structures, today announced a potential layoff of between 20-115 workers in May, according to an Aggregate Research (ARI) report.
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