Itasca State Park: The Mighty Mississippi's Humble Beginning

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Saturday May 14, 2011 · 8:30 AM PDT

2011/05/14 · 08:30

Oh the Mississppi's mighty but it starts in Minnesota
At a place that you can walk across with five steps down...
- Indigo Girls

Everything has to start somewhere. And North America's ~~longest river, all 2552 miles of it~~ largest river system, starts where the water tumbles out of Lake Itasca over a few small boulders in north central Minnesota. Follow me over the little cloud to talk Minne-SOH-tan and practice your loon calls.

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Thursday April 07, 2011 · 8:30 AM PDT

2011/04/07 · 08:30

There is a place at the edge of the prairie, just on the southern edge of the Black Hills of South Dakota, where the earth breathes - sometimes inhaling, sometimes exhaling with enough force to blow off your hat! And that's apparently what happened in 1881 when brothers Tom and Jesse Bingham noticed a small hole in the ground.

The Lakota call it "Sacred Breath" or "Breath of Power". In their creation story, it is where the People emerged from their subterranean world into this one. As with the entire Black Hills region, to the Lakota this is a very sacred place.

It is to me, too.

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 8:05 AM PDT

2009/09/02 · 08:05

This morning on NPR's Morning Edition, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) complained that there is nothing in the current health care reform legislation that tells you what to eat or how much to exercise.

Interesting.

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Friday December 05, 2008 · 2:14 PM PST

2008/12/05 · 14:14

For the past decade, I have been able to watch - up close and personal - the amazing process of monarch caterpillars transforming into butterflies. Spending hours poking around a milkweed patch has provided me time to reflect on how this process is repeated in our lives and communities.

I have often said that people are a part of, not apart from, nature. Its rhythms and processes are just as integral to our bodies and lives as they are to the lowly insect, if we but look. This has become more obvious to me during this past year of national politics and personal growth.

I'd be honored if you'd follow this first-timer into that milkweed patch for a little more pokin' around.

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