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Tag: Inspiration

  • Winter Wonderland Musings

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    Woke up this morning to discover snow-line has suddenly dropped 1,500 ft. below Chickaloon, AK, and the fluff continues to steadily fall . . . this will seriously alter my daily routine from hiking to shoveling 😊 The snow’s projected to end by nightfall, so . . . barring a cardiac event 😊 . . .…

  • River Walk

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    Today’s wilderness wander found me hiking the Matanuska River Valley. Carving its path over millennia between snow-laden peaks of the Chugach and Talkeetna Ranges, it’s birthed 25 miles upstream in the Matanuska Glacier. Freezing temps have restricted glacier melt dropping the river’s level dramatically. Summer’s silt-gray turbid flow has been transformed to winter’s clear blue-green…

  • ‘Firsts’ and ‘Seconds’

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    Life has lotsa’ ‘Firsts’ and ‘Seconds’ . . . First or Second best . . . First or Second place . . . First or Second choice . . . First or Second helping . . . threw that one in for Thanksgiving 😊. In this world First is preferable to Second, especially during those…

  • Swans on Ice

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    Fred D
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    What a difference a day makes!  . . . freeze-up happened sooner than expected for our local Trumpeter Swan family. The few remaining open patches of water these big birds require for their running take-off is quickly becoming solid-state, and Mom is ‘honking-out’ Dad for not booking an earlier flight south for their cygnets and…

  • Serenity

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  • Soul Contentment

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    Fred D
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    Soul contentment is hiking above snowline to witness the day fade into a golden horizon . . . and then hustling off the mountain before zero-dark thirty sets in and your spouse calls Search & Rescue 😊 “The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display His craftmanship”. Psalm 19:1I M Blessed . .…

  • Rebirth

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    Fred D
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    Temps reached into the 40s as Mother Nature granted a brief reprieve from winter’s arrival. Snow melt transformed to translucent droplets exhuming a colorful re-birth of leaves carpeting the forest floor . . . reminiscent  of the tears Jesus shed to offer all who claim Him as their own a glorious, forever rebirth. “O death,…

  • Contemplate Beauty

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    Fred D
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     “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth, find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts”. Rachel Carson

  • Leaf Speak

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    Fred D
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    Winter’s approach has stripped the forest whose fallen leaves display beauty in cryonic death, and silently speak endurance to the ‘naked’ wilderness. “In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty.” – Amit Ray +                             ^    …

  • Dawn’s Splendor

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    Fred D
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    Creation’s awakening at dawn spurs a grateful rebirth of joy in my soul. Here’s a few glimpses of dawn’s wonder that was mine to behold this morning. “The whole earth is filled with the awe of your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy”. Psalm 65:8 I M Blessed…