Author: Jack
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Weekly Reflection: Lightning Days and Glacial Months
WordPress seems to have changed my very carefully chosen font and I’m not sure how to change it back. This one sucks, I’m sorry you have to see this. Anyways. It’s been a bit since I’ve been able (made the time) to sit down and write one of these, or much of anything. I bought…
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Weekly Reflection: New Roads & New Years
I’ve survived another year! This past week was one of the best I’ve had in a long time. I haven’t been able to go to the gym at all since I hurt my shoulder, but this has given me some time back in the mornings. I’ve been able to get organized, catch up on sleep,…
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American Heartbreak: A Record For Every Road
*Checks Notes* Wait a minute… this is a country album, and it’s… actually good? Yes folks, it’s true. Now, look. I’m not here to carelessly disparage country music as a whole, or at least not as much as a lot of people might. While yes, the genre as a whole has pretty much gone stale…
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Weekly Reflection: Time, More Time
I’m starting to settle into life out here, and that comes with pros and cons. Post grad life is presenting itself with basically nothing but time, and that’s as much of a problem as it is an opportunity. I’ve never been good with using my free time if there’s something else to do in my…
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Maybe Tomorrow
Maybe one day, I will have the capacity to just go the fuck to sleep. Today is not that day. My own lack of discipline continually hounds me. The lack of an ability to set out on a course and then follow through on it, or to know that my life would be improved if…
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Weekly Reflection: The Unexpected
It isn’t often that Montana is in the news, but unfortunately it decided to be this week. For the first time since 1988, and for the first time in an apparent very long time for any reason other than wildfires, Yellowstone is currently completely closed. The latest reports are saying that it might open again…
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Decay & Dandelions
I took a walk today, down by the river. I pulled over to clear my mind. I wandered for a while, between bison patties and riverbed The recent rains made the plains into swamp. As I walked, I found a tree And before my eyes, the process of life unfolded “From dust you came, to…
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Weekly Reflection: Highways and Hills
Two thousand, three hundred and ninety miles; ten states; four national parks, two national monuments, and two state parks; $1002.20 in gas. What a journey this past week has been. While it may have cost me an arm and a leg to get out here, never in my life have I seen so much in…
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Weekly Reflection: Growing Pains
“I’m no good at Goodbyes” – Post Malone: philosopher, scholar Hhhhh… This week has been one of the toughest I’ve had in a long, long time. I’ve never really been one for saying goodbye. It’s always hurt me deeply, from breakups to graduations to the ends of friendships, I’ve really never been able to handle…
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Graduation Reflection: Gratitude
It seems that I have graduated. After transferring and dealing with college through a pandemic, at most points it honestly seemed like this day would never come. Now that it has, I cannot believe how quickly it went. Adults always like to tell you it’ll be the fastest four years of your life, and as…
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