January 2024

BEYOND REASON

Getting Pickled It is true that Beyond Reason has, on two occasions, picked on pickleball. Beyond Reason has focused on the activity that aspires to be called a sport and Beyond Reason has focused on the player that aspires to be called a sportsman.

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Wildlife Matters

Chasing the Treeline: Scotland and Norway The treeline refers to where forest stops and tundra begins. At high mountain elevations it is alpine tundra; at high latitudes it can mean either Arctic tundra or Antarctic tundra, depending on which pole is involved.

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Wellness

The Home & the Heart What is home? They say home is where the heart is, but what if your heart lies in separate places? There are many thoughts in culture about what “home” is – if you are nomadic or communal, this concept will look much different than if you are stationary with allotted ownership of house and land. I sometimes begin to wonder if home is simply within these flesh and bone bodies… and how could it not be? In our own body is the only completely certain space in which we, as beings of energy and light at our purest essence, will reside for our entire journey on this planet revolving around the giant star that is our Sun.

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Outdoors

with Of mice and the moon The sorry truth that Dr. Peterson so iconoclastically pointed out to us is that for all the seemingly great thoughts and ideas and opinions that come and go in our various states of mindfulness and free-mindedness - what we might think of as facts or truths - fully 99 out of 100 are wrong or mistaken.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

School Board Meetings The School Board of I.S.D. 166 will meet for a Special School Board Meeting Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 12:00-5:00, in the Jane Mianowski Conference Center, 101 West 5th Street, Grand Marais, MN.

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North Shore Living

Lisa Bloomquist Flurries of Chaotic Fun What a busy month for everyone at North Shore Living. We decked the halls, had our famous yearly bean auction and ate homemade lefse hot off the iron made by our very own Hilja Iverson.

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