Articles written by Janet Kurtz

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Best Laid Plans (Organ Recital 101)

A Sunday in late June, anticipated since the dark, icy days of January, finally arrived with the blue skies and green grass expected of such ...
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June Wedding – a la mejicana

A thunderstorm roared through this morning, knocking out the electricity, uprooting a dozen trees, and producing excellent mosquito hatch conditions. This is exactly the type ...
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Spring Melts

Life is returning to my tundra. Like old friends, the cooing of the mourning dove greets me, mixed with the peenting of the snipe on ...
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Culture Shock: Quarantine to Disney

It was a trip planned for spring 2020, before the world closed down abruptly, cancelling plans from visiting elder family members to foreign forays. The ...
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March On: A People’s Journey through Time

The snow rose in piles over the edge of the hill before sloping down to the frozen Mississippi River. We snowshoed along a narrow path ...
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The Enchantment of ENCANTO

Early February morning pinks and lavenders outline the clouds in the eastern sky before exposing a tree line, then the frozen garden, and snowshoe paths ...
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Braiding Sweetgrass

Braiding Sweetgrass is a book making the rounds these days with good reason. Author Robin Wall Kimmerer writes poetically from her spirit and theoretically, as ...
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La Acostada and La Levantada

Dusk fell on the houses in thebarrio situated near Saltillo’s center. Christmas lights were hung on the artificial pine in the sala and draped across ...
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Thanksgiving: Changing Perspectives

I am a person of the north – a four season type of person. Last month, I was enjoying the extended fall of glorious color ...
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