The June Rise

By Jim Tolstrup on Jun 27, 2009

Rain and hail continue to fall in Northern Colorado and rivers like the Cache La Poudre (reportedly named by French trappers who hid a cache of gunpowder there and never found it again) are brimming full. The early settlers and trappers in this area, referred to the swollen state of rivers in the spring as "The June Rise."

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A Simple Act of Kindness

By Jim Tolstrup on Jun 22, 2009

Suburbitat: A Suburban Naturalist's Journal: A Simple Act of Kindness Yesterday I was walking into town. Actually, I was going to the Fort Collins Shambhala Meditation Center, to practice meditation, in order to be a more…

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Buy a DVD Copy of Dhamma Dana–It’s Cheap and For a Good Cause

By Reverend Danny Fisher on Jun 15, 2009

In my recent posting for MahaSangha News about the 30th Anniversary Reunion of Antioch Education Abroad's Buddhist Studies in India Program, I mentioned that one of the activities included a screening of a short…

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Did You Know that the First Female-to-Male Transsexual to Undergo a Phalloplasty Later Became a Buddhist Monk?

By Reverend Danny Fisher on Jun 12, 2009

[UPDATE: Our friend James Shaheen, editor and publisher of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, writes to inform us that Pagan Kennedy wrote a piece for the venerable dharma magazine on this remarkable man for their…

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Suburbitat: Our Cruel Spring ~ via Jim Tolstrup.

By Jim Tolstrup on Jun 9, 2009

Suburbitat: Our Cruel Spring This year on February 3rd I heard the first Red-Wing Blackbirds. Three days later I heard the first Meadow Larks. Last year I was impressed when these same birds appeared, ahead of…

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When I’m walking under stars and floating down a river I am free* (*You can have all this…not so bad).

By Joana Smith on Jun 5, 2009

This past week was vacation for us. We decided to take a three day/two night float trip in the Big Thicket National Wildlife Preserve. We floated down the Village Creek, which is a small…

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Charleston on my Mindful

By Rachel on May 19, 2009

(a view of the Charleston Harbor and Peninsula) Charleston, SC is one of the most beautiful and historical cities in the world. Case in point, I spent a semester studying in Prague, and it…

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Happy wheels, happy world: Bikes Not Bombs! Photos via Caroline Treadway.

By Caroline Treadway on May 6, 2009

April 11, 2009-Bikes Not Bombs volunteers strip old bike wheels and toss them into a pile of bike parts headed to the Vijana Center, a school in Tanzania. Bayla Shepley pulled inner tubes off used…

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[Review] Flatirons CrossFit: Ready to Get Your Butt Kicked?

By Jayson Gaddis on Apr 20, 2009

I've been hearing about the CrossFit buzz for a while now and had to check it out. Little did I know that barfing might be a possibility due to the intensity of the workout.…

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Spi Spi Za - The Vanishing Prairie Dog.

By Jim Tolstrup on Apr 18, 2009

If we eradicate a species that is a cornerstone of prairie ecology in order to build the beautiful world that we envision is that the world really worth building? What do we owe the animals that share the suburbitat when human intervention has as much influence on their lives as nature itself?

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Foreclosure On Rise In The Forest (And The Birds Are Still Singing…[Thank God!]).

By Joana Smith on Apr 16, 2009

Today Abilene and I decided to head into the forest! We are singers, and we needed to learn some new songs from the birds! ...teaching people to sing is our job because we have…

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Seeds of Wisdom

By Jim Tolstrup on Apr 4, 2009

In the dark depths of winter the tiny seeds remain steadfast and resolute. They seem to know that sunlight, soil and water are the things that truly matter and that the glory of summer will inevitably return. In challenging times such as these we would do well to take a lesson from the seeds, to return to what truly sustains us and reflect on where we are in the cycle of seasons.

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Suburbitat, A Suburban Naturalist’s Journal: Crazy Like a Fox.

By Jim Tolstrup on Mar 30, 2009

Personally, I don't know if the fox is magical or not but I am always pleased when I see one. They remind me that the world is much larger than the schemes of human beings. Nature and the fox, whether clever or crazy, seem to have plenty of schemes of their own.

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This is the traveling neighborhood…

By Joana Smith on Mar 26, 2009

Have you ever seen an angel? I have. There are these people who stopped by Houston last year, the day before Hurricane Ike was to hit us, and they stayed with us. While our…

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Skip the caffeine…give yourself 30 seconds of prAna. [This is what effective advertising looks like]

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Mar 23, 2009

Second in a series of unpaid-for "This is what effective advertising looks like." Click here for the first, lol hahah series, via TDA & Hapa Sushi. Effective advertising speaks to the spirit of a…

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Nature Boys, Girls, The Greatest Thing You’ll Ever Learn Is Just To Love And Be Loved In Return.

By Joana Smith on Mar 23, 2009

Last week it rained for three days straight! Abilene and I were almost tired of having teas and coffees! Abba likes tea, I like coffee... So there could not have been a better day…

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Are We Robots? - Meditations on Authority and Freedom

By Ryan Nadlonek on Mar 20, 2009

The Pacific Ocean touches the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Beep Beep BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP! The alarm announces 4 am. Time to go to the airport for an outer-island court appearance. On the…

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It’s baa-aaack! Alpinist magazine.

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Mar 18, 2009

The Alpinist: it's baaaaack..! The rumors are true. The dead in the new media forest fire of '08, gorgeously-designed, high-end-yet-printed-in-China, fancy-climber-talk magazine is back to haunt the dreams of adventurers everywhere! Press Release: ...the independent publisher…

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Newton Running and TDA Advertising & Design think inside the shoebox. [eco solutions]

By Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com on Mar 17, 2009

Made of 100% compostable egg carton-like material, this 'eco concept' (it was never actually made) fits the shoes you don't need additional (often bleached) paper to pack the shoes nice and tight. For more about…

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Why Sopan Greene loves Boulder, Colorado.

By elephantjournal.com on Mar 14, 2009

I was born and raised in Boulder. I left when I was 13. Against my will, I was pulled back into Chief Niwot's vortex... ...It was at that moment that Chief Niwot proclaimed his legendary…

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