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I have mentioned here before that I prefer regular season baseball to playoff baseball. It largely comes down to the fact that I prefer the daily routine and ritual of following a team, a sport, across a 162-game series, to the high-pressure game-by-game pressure cooker of the playoffs. A baseball regular season is a narrative Read more
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Years ago I worked in a middle-school Media Center. Each year, the English teachers would declare a day as, “Poem in Your Pocket Day.” On that day staff and students were encouraged to carry around in their pockets, a favorite poem to share others. It began for me a habit of always having some of Read more
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“Even in the developed world, the effects of unjust structures and actions are all too apparent. Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.” ~Pope Francis Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on November 14, 2014. Winter has arrived in the North Country. The long darkness has begun. For the next 12 weeks, we will see little of the sun as we hurry from our cars to the various Read more
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Journey to the Center of the Earth starts with a quirky, excitable German professor named Otto Lidenbrock, who discovers an old Icelandic manuscript with a mysterious coded message. When his patient, good-natured nephew Axel helps to decode it, and they realize it describes a secret path leading deep into the Earth’s interior. Lidenbrock, being the kind of man Read more
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Daphne du Maurier’s novel Jamaica Inn follows the story of Mary Yellan, a young woman who, after her mother’s death, travels to the isolated Jamaica Inn on the bleak moors of Cornwall to live with her only surviving relative, her Aunt Patience. She is immediately met with a foreboding atmosphere. The once-lively Patience is now a timid, Read more
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As I posted here on Monday, beginning this month, I will be start blogging again about Music here as I once did on previous blogs. Henceforth, Mondays at ClimbingSky will be known as Music Mondays. And as I said Monday, the Subtitle to ClimbingSky has been changed to “Why, Baseball, Books, and The Grateful Dead Read more
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Now that a month has passed and the regular season dust has fully settled, it is time to look at a few of the 2025 Regular Season numbers that contributed to a poor season for my Local 9, the Minnesota Twins. Let’s start with one of my favorite plays in baseball, the Sacrifice Bunt. Last Read more
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On my previous blogs, I have often posted about music and even reviewed albums (primarily albums from my collection). When I began ClimbingSky here in June 2024, I considered subtitling it, “Why Baseball, Books, and the Grateful Dead Matter.” Officially, this month, I will be doing just that. I will simply begin including music as Read more
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“In the final analysis, poverty means death: lack of food and housing, the inability to attend properly to health and education needs, the exploitation of workers, permanent unemployment, the lack of respect for one’s human dignity, and unjust limitations placed on personal freedom in the areas of self-expression, politics, and religion.” ~ Gustavo Gutierrez Read more
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