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Mud Season.
Mud season is real. For the first years of my life, I lived on a farm in northern New Hampshire, where spring meant longer days and warmer sun.
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Begin Again.
I am beginning again; returning to the practice of sitting mediation. I began my graduate work at Naropa University in August of 2006, where part of my counseling studies included a mediation class.