By Chuck Keller Over the last few years, Earth Day, April 22, has become the city’s first big party in the park. Unfortunately, the coronavirus forced the Fort Thomas Forest Conservancy and the city to cancel the event so it will be conducted on the Conservancy’s Facebook page and will contain activities for children, tips […]
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In Other Words: The Gift of Slowing Down
Img: Clint McCoy By Chuck Keller Just because you are given a gift, doesn’t mean you have to accept it. We have been presented with an extraordinary opportunity. We are shut down. And we are forced to slow down. It can hurt. It can frustrate. But…. Everything has slowed down. The street traffic is noticeably […]
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In Other Words: Whatever Is Before You Is Your Teacher
By Chuck Keller It’s hard to imagine but the coronavirus has changed the world in ways that we never dreamed. Granted, experts play out these scenarios many times and at levels we never imagine. Their job, of course, is to prepare us for that possibility. We have stored food, equipment, and money at the personal, […]
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In Other Words: While We Wait for the Hammer to Fall, For One It Already Fell
I stopped in the grocery the other morning and it was a scene from the zombie apocalypse. People hurried up and down aisles gathering their supplies. There was an uneasy quiet that hovered in the store. Very little chatter. Almost no eye contact. And what eye contact there was was full of suspicion and fear. […]
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In Other Words: It Is Always A Challenge To Adjust To Our New Normal
Paul Simon had a “Why me?” moment in You Can Call Me Al when he sang “Why am I soft in the middle and the rest of my life is so hard?” It’s a sentiment that we can relate to even though it doesn’t solve a thing. It’s a self-pitying statement. Recent world events have […]
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In Other Words: The Future is in Good Hands
Aiden Haigis Mahatma Gandhi observed that “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” In that case then, the world of Aiden Haigis is a pretty good place to be. Recently, Aiden, 16, began a new project. […]
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In Other Words: Losing Sight of the Stars
Unsplash: Denis Degioanni The Milky Way I was a child when my grandfather died. I was confused and sad. Grandma walked me into her backyard, pointed up to the night sky, and said that when grandpa died God made him a star in the sky so we could see him every night and that he […]
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In Other Words: If You Want To Live Near The Woods Then You Need To Accept What’s In The Woods
Part of my garden It took a few years to get to this point but my garden was finally looking good. I had thirty-two varieties of hosta lilies planted among ferns, lily of the valley, bleeding heart, columbine, roses, and various shrubs. Then the deer arrived at the Keller All You Can Eat Smorgasbord and […]
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In Other Words: Bubble or Incubator? The Power of Metaphor
Image: Jessica Ruscello How we tell or frame a story is important. The way we frame a story reveals how we view ourselves and what we believe. Think about that. When we first meet someone we exchange stories which is usually our name, occupation, and geographic location. That frames the way a person will view […]
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In Other Words: Nothing is Flat, Flush, Square, or Level. The Joys of an Old Home.
By Chuck Keller Our story is not much different than everyone in Fort Thomas or anyone who lives in an old house. We live in a one-hundred year old house that we love but it requires lots of attention. Barre 3 Fort Thomas: https://barre3.com/studio-locations/ftthomas The foundation is cracked. Plumbing needs what is now annual attention. We […]
