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While She Gets Weary
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Riding Against Resistance (mine not Luke’s)
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Winter Comes
Audio recording of this content Winter is coming, or at least it should be. Temperatures here in Minnesota keep easing upwards into the forties to fifties (F), making winter seem like a faint childhood memory. But according to the calendar Winter Solstice is around the corner or here or already passed, depending on whether I…

This is my brain
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