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Musings Under a Blanket of White


Large clumps of snow gather on the screen of my home office window and careen perilously through the air outside. When I step just out of my door to take a video a few minutes prior, the wind lands a single flake in my hair at just the right angle for me to see from the corner of my eye with perfect clarity what shape it has taken, how many arms it has. It will melt before I could even think about capturing it in a photograph. I hurry back inside and bundle up as I head back up to my office. This old farmhouse doesn't have central air and heating, so a space heater, fingerless gloves, and a hot cup of coffee will have to keep me warm. It's a wintry landscape, magical despite my late winter loathing for all things icy.

It's April 16, 2020, and it's snowing in Western Iowa.

This is truly no grand revelation, given the chaos that is Midwestern weather. That said, I have to wonder how much this virus lockdown is going to change the way we live: weather & climate, work/life balance, politics, and the history of our era.

Time will tell...but, in the meantime, it's peaceful here today.






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Tiny House TIP: Being Realistic

Sometimes we think we know going in what takes top priority...sometimes we need a reality check.


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As promised, I am chronicling some of my tiny house build process on here. Over the coming months, I will post videos and written bits about how it's going.

This first one is simply the introduction, as I begin the hardcore research phase!!!


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...change of place...


"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind."
~Seneca

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...when overseas...


"When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you're visiting."
~Clint Borgen

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Happy Holidays!: Home...a piece of soul


"For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul."
~Pico Iyer

Happy Holidays! I hope wherever you are you are making wonderful memories with wonderful people and environments.

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...with all your heart...


"Wheresoever you go... Go with all your heart."
~Confucius

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...we must carry it within us...


"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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...no moment of delight like it...


"There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it"
~Charles Dudley Warner

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...the two impulses in travel...


"The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place, certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel."
~Paul Theroux

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...the traveler is active...


"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing'."
~Daniel J. Boorstin

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...the real voyage of discovery...


"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
~Marcel Proust

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...a journey no one can take for us...


"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
~Marcel Proust

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News & Updates: Summer/Autumn


Where I Have Been...

I've been a little neglectful on here. Sorry about that. It's been a busy, busy year, folks. I've been trying to get some long-awaited projects going. If you haven't been checking out my sister blog, System Andromeda, you should definitely read my Quarterly Review post to see the result of the last few months.


One project that affects Ransomed Roads is the creation of a new photography website: Tricky Fish Photography.

I've you've been keeping up with my Ransomed Roads Instagram, you've seen some of my photos already. You can also follow my Tricky Fish Instagram.

I also did a little travel this year, both to the East Coast (family stuff) and to Las Vegas. But not enough...never enough.


Patreon

Now, the big news while I've been so busy is the creation of my Patreon page...and you can be a part of it! Patreon connects creatives with the audience that loves them. It allows them to engage more with each other through exclusive content on a membership-based platform for as little as $1/month. I love it. It means I get to keep creating, and you get to keep getting the benefit of that which I create. Note the orange button up on the right-hand side? Go check out my page, see what you think, and if you like what you see, if you like what I do here, I encourage you to become a patron. Remember, patrons will not only keep getting posts here, but they will also get exclusive and advanced content that is only on Patreon! 


What's Next...

I'm deciding the direction I want Ransomed Roads to go in future. There are many things I'd like to do, and it's a matter of how those will fit in with all my other projects (seriously, if you haven't see what all I do, read that Quarterly Review post). For now, I can tell you that I plan on doing a new periodic (monthly?) series on here highlighting local sites and events in the Council Bluffs/Omaha Metro area. I still plan to chronicle my journey to financial and personal freedom building a tiny house. I'm tabling it until at least the start of next year while I work on other projects, but there will be a bunch of stuff on here once I get started (you can get even more news on my Patreon!). I'm hoping to get my Vegas posts out by the end of the year, and continue working on Summer of Color in the new year. For now, this is my last post until at least mid-November. 

I hope everyone is having an excellent autumn (or spring, for my southern hemisphere readers!). Stay tuned and happy travels, fellow gypsies!



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...the longest journey...


"The longest journey is the journey inward."
~Dag Hammarskjold

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...everyday kindness goes a long way...


"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in headlines."
~Charles Kuralt

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...leave only footprints...


"Take only memories. Leave only footprints."
~Chief Seattle

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...people don't take trips...


"People don't take trips, trips take people."
~John Steinbeck

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...solitary reflection...


"One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more."
~Thomas Jefferson

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...those who wander...


"Not all those who wander are lost."
~J.R.R. Tolkien

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