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December 2025

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Books read: The Colony by Annika Norlin (translated by Alice E. Olsson) Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Trails walked: Myers Homestead near Boulder (Dec 2nd) Three Loops in Heil Valley Ranch near Lyons (Dec 30th) Song(s) of the month: The Love Me or Die by CW Stoneking December Summary: The end of the year has always been full of lists that summarize the news, movies, music, photography and cultural events of the past twelve months.  I love reading these lists even though the music lists seem lately to consist of artists I've never heard of (a sure sign I'm getting old).  It's a good way to find new music and also a good way to find music that you'd never really want to listen to, ever.  My favorite list however, was by Angus Hervey who writes a substack that I follow called Fix the News .  I wrote a bit about him and his work in the summary of my September 2024 blog .   The title of his year-end blog is The Telemetry and the subtitle is: All the new...
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November 2025

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Books read: 2666 by Roberto Bola ñ o Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Trails walked: Coffintop Mountain near Lyons (Nov 3rd) Middle Fork Lake near Red River, NM (Nov 14th) Deadman Gulch to Coffintop Connector near Lyons (Nov 18th) Song(s) of the month: Todd Snider Alright Guy Conservative, Christian… Happy New Year Stuck on the Corner Enjoy Yourself All My Life Beer Run Working on a Song November Summary: This month I turned 67 and my blog turned 7.  I started writing this blog as I turned 60.  I wanted some way to document my thoughts on two of my favorite activities: Reading and hiking. I've strayed into other topics along the way like political divisiveness, climate change, science, music, baseball and grandkids.  I don't expect anyone to read what I write.  I mainly write it because I like putting my thoughts down.  I guess I also wanted to leave some sort of legacy behind for my grandkids ...
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