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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument: Colorado’s Petrified Past

Analysis, News / By a featured contributor

Colorado’s mountains hide many secrets, from crystal lakes to amazing rock formations. However, to a paleontologist, Colorado’s greatest secret lies just below the surface. The state has a very rich diversity of fossils, from Ice Age mastodons to Jurassic dinosaurs. In fact, the most complete Stegosaurus skeleton ever found was discovered in Morrison, Colorado, and […]

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Endometriosis Echoes: Does Anyone Listen?

Analysis, Biography, DeLyn Winters, Information / By DeLyn Winters

I’m awake, again. The bedside clock reads 2:14 a.m. and I can’t get back to sleep. The two ibuprofen I took at bedtime have worn off, and the deep, aching pelvic pain I’ve been experiencing for the last three days, which was only dulled by the painkillers, has now crept across my lower back and

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Body Art — Is It Really?

Analysis, Nonfiction, Open Channel, Writings / By a featured contributor

. . . the man was a walking treasure gallery. This wasn’t the work of a cheap carnival tattoo man with three colors and whiskey on his breath. This was the accomplishment of a living genius, vibrant, clear, and beautiful. – Ray Bradbury …the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. – Walt

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Pioneer Profiles: HAW Tabor

Analysis, Biography, DeLyn Winters, Nonfiction, Writings / By DeLyn Winters

Nobody thinks the origin of the term “money to burn” might be attributed to one person, but Horace Austin Warner Tabor, known commonly as “Haw,” may very well have been responsible for it. Haw Tabor was born on November 26, 1830 to a life of modest means. He trained as a stone mason, and in

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Vision Issues: A Cock-Eyed World View

Analysis, Jerome Parent, Nonfiction, Writings / By Jerome Parent

I came out of the Sears optometrist’s room and saw my mother clearly for the first time in memory. “You have freckles,” I said. My vision had certainly changed. Later, I would find out that these words hurt her feelings. My mother, red-headed and of German ancestry, had a lot of freckles. Like me, she

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Joseph Campbell on Schopenhauer, Will, and Life’s Composition

Analysis, Education, Nonfiction, Writings / By a featured contributor

In his splendid essay called “On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual,” Schopenhauer points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as though composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed

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