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Winter Solstice in NH: ‘Kodi and I lit the fire on the way home’
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Kodi and I are on a mission. . . a spiritual mission to honor the sun’s return. . . but also to mark a more personal moment in my own journey.
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Kodi and I are on a mission. . . a spiritual mission to honor the sun’s return. . . but also to mark a more personal moment in my own journey.
Broke and low in 1981, A Christmas gift to my Grandmother and Grandfather yielded a treasure trove of life memories. Here’s one of them.
“For What its Worth” is worth a whole lot to Americans. Stephen Stills and Neil Young of “Buffalo Springfield” Bridge the “Generation Gap” in the fight for Democracy. By WAYNE D. KING
At No Kings rallies all over the country, there was a lot of music and singing. Celebrations of America like Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” Ray Charles singing “America the Beautiful,” spirited songs by Pete Seeger. But if there was one song that was featured over and over again, that almost everyone knew – but had no idea of its title – it was a song from the legendary 60s era band “Buffalo Springfield”: “For What it’s Worth.”
Written by the lyrical and melodic architect Stephen Stills, with collaboration from the 60s brooding experimentalist Neil Young.
Come the end of summer, when the pine cones open to release their seeds/nuts, joining together with the colorful leaves of the fall’s deciduous trees, the sound that accompanies this moment is the loud and joyful tittering of red squirrels as they alert their brothers and sisters to the abundance above.
Though home for him is now Los Angeles, Rick and his brother Jim grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma, as citizens of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. Rick is also considered a favorite son of New Hampshire, where he and his brother Jim and their father W. Richard West Sr. (Wah Pah Nah Yah) were campers and staff at Camp Mowglis, School of the Open on Newfound Lake.
My mother and father were living in two different places. Not because they didn’t want to live together, but because if Bridgewater College in Massachusetts had found out that she was pregnant with me, she would have been removed from the nursing program.
If you are a nature nerd or a native boy like me, you probably are pretty good at identifying many of the species of flora and fauna among the brothers and sisters of our natural world.
Here, is where we come to the focus of this entry in our newly established “Anamaki Chronicles” series – an effort to tell the stories of New Hampshire and the surrounding areas in a broader cultural context: The story of the evolution of Mount Eisenhower.
This is especially pertinent to the dollar as the global currency and the legal and military infrastructure that ensures relative stability and the free flow of trade goods between countries.