A TIME TO REPAIR I typically look to laughter for solace, so at the end of last year, I wrote a song recounting my very practical, if somewhat obsessive attempts to make lemonade out of isolation. […]
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CALL FOR LEMONADE!!!!
CALL FOR LEMONADE!!!! Hey, everyone – share your Lemonade with the FAR-West community!! In the many months that we’ve been publishing our Lockdown Lemonade blog, so many have come forward to share the positive lessons learned by creating lemonade out of the lemons handed to all of us once we went into lockdown mode. The […]
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Reconstituted Lemonade “Now my question is, why are there always lessons? And what if we never learn them, do they return again? Is there magic that keeps us moving forward like a tide that pulls us shoreward? And will these lessons end?” –Severin Browne, Lessons With all his wisdom, our dear friend Severin probably never […]
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FAR-West News Just for You, Monday, July 12th, 2021
Topics in this post: Lockdown Lemonade #38 / Campfire: Camp Songs TOMORROW, Tuesday, July 13 / Community July 19th & Archives & Upcoming / FAR-West Teaches DIY Video July 29th + Archives / Best of the West & Beyond Archives / Where to Post your Gigs / JUST PUBLISHED Today! Monday, July 12th Lockdown Lemonade […]
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FAR-West News for You, Monday, July 5th, 2021
Topics in this post: Lockdown Lemonade #37 / Community July 19th & Archives & Upcoming / Campfire July 13th / FAR-West Teaches Archives / Best of the West & Beyond Archives / Where to Post your Gigs / JUST PUBLISHED! Monday, July 5th Lockdown Lemonade #37- Learning to Love Lemons by James Kahn You […]
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Learning to Love Lemons My first grandchild was born February 28, 2020, and my wife and I were booking plane tickets to go to Chicago to meet him. I’d scheduled myself off work for an entire month, but by the time we started making travel plans, the pandemic hit. We went into lockdown March 4. […]
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FAR-West News for You, Monday, June 28th, 2021
Topics in this post: Lockdown Lemonade #36 / Campfire June 29th / Community Archives / FAR-West Teaches Archives / Best of the West & Beyond Archives / New! FAR-West Website Events tab / Where to Post your Gigs / JUST PUBLISHED! Monday, June 28th Lockdown Lemonade #36- Catching Up While the World Was Slowing Down […]
Read moreMore TagLockdown Lemonade #36 by Tina Ross
Catching Up While the World Was Slowing Down I have a friend who makes the BEST lemonade ever! Apparently, she tells me, there is some controversy about whether or not to use simple syrup – needing to heat a 1:1 ratio of sugar to water. But I do know, if you just add the sugar […]
Read moreMore TagFAR-West News of the Week, June 21st, 2021
Topics in this post: Lockdown Lemonade #35 / Community TONIGHT Monday, June 21st / Campfire June 29th / Community Archives / FAR-West Teaches Archives / Best of the West & Beyond Archives / New! FAR-West Website Events tab / Where to Post your Gigs / JUST PUBLISHED! Monday, June 21st Lockdown Lemonade #35 “How You […]
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How You Survive a Pandemic When it rains — when the droplets bounce in the birdbath, off the pebble-strewn bed of pooling water, rippling outward in concentric circles, each drop disrupting the rings of its predecessor — and the cat watches from its perch on the paint-chipped dining room windowsill of the home we have […]
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