Birds and Bees

While manning my new Cooper's Hawk last evening (a process falconers take new birds through which requires hours of sitting and bonding with a wild bird in preparation for the hunting season), I watched the first 40 minutes of a documentary released in 2009 called Vanishing of the Bees. To make a long story short, …

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Principally Speaking: Solving Difficult Problems

I happened upon an interesting principle that understood and properly applied, can make life much easier.  This principle became obvious during a recent horseback riding lesson while working on my trot-canter upward transition.  Without boring you with the details, the principle I learned or perhaps better put, rediscovered, is this: the solution does not always lie at …

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