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    • from the website: Through the Looking Glass
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    • The Overland Stage
      • The Holladay Overland Stage: 1 – The Central Route
      • The Overland Stage – 2 Company Operations
      • The Overland Stage – 3 Exploring The Route – An Overview
      • The Overland Stage: 4 – South Platte/Julesburg/Ft Sedgwick
        • Jack Slade
      • The Overland Stage: 5 – Julesburg to Junction Station (aka Ft Morgan)
      • The Overland Stage: 6 – Junction Station to Latham
      • The Overland Stage: 7 – Latham Crossing to Fort Collins
      • The Overland Stage: 8 – LaPorte to Virginia Dale
      • The Overland Stage: 9 – Virginia Dale to Cooper Creek
      • The Overland Stage: 10 – Cooper Creek to Pass Creek
        • Fletcher Family
      • The Overland Stage: 11 – Pass Creek to Bridger Station
      • The Overland Stage: 12 – Bridger Pass to Duck Lake
      • The Overland Stage: 13 – Duck Lake to LaClede
      • The Overland Stage: 14 – LaClede to Almond
      • The Overland Stage: 15 – Almond to Rock Springs
      • The Overland Stage: 16 – Rock Springs to Fort Bridger
      • The Overland Stage: 17 – Fort Bridger to Weber Station

I find I don’t wish to explore new lands, but to explore again those I have already passed through, trying to see what I’d missed in the first hectic rush … Gerard Van der Leun

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Daily Archives: May 3, 2025

For You, Jean

The New American Digest Posted on May 3, 2025 by DTMay 3, 2025

Jean asked "What kinds of things hmmm?" as a comment to my post: "Just Because I Felt Like It"

Here's a list of a few of today's headlines:

Zelensky Rejects Victory Day Truce, Doubles Down on Threats to Moscow’s Parade Packed With Foreign Dignitaries – Russia’s Medvedev Hints at Nuclear Retaliation

Pakistan Test-Fires Nuke-Capable Ballistic Missile As Tensions With India Soar


Pentagon 'Covering Up' American Casualties In Yemen War: Intercept Report

Leftists Declare It 'Frightening' That "Children Will Be Taught To Love America"

Trans Teen Freed After Tesla Firebombing, Judge Cites Lack Of 'Gender-Affirming Care' In Prison

FAA Starts Probe After Two More Near-Misses With Army Helicopter At Washington Reagan Airport

9 Signs That Conditions Are Ripe For A Major Economic Crisis In The US

All quiet on the Western Front, eh?

Trouble is, it's more or less the same thing every day.
I need to stop reading the news because personally, things are going fine. Beautiful day out, no local worries, my wife's not mad at me and her garden goes well.
Life is good all in all.

I'll try for more pleasant tomorrow. Trains and critters? :)

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Unless >You< Do Something Not Approved Of

The New American Digest Posted on May 3, 2025 by DTMay 3, 2025

From ZeroHedge:

"If it takes an executive order to enforce laws that already bar illegal immigrants from Social Security, the problem isn’t policy - it’s a government that’s given up on enforcement…"

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New Mexico Sky

The New American Digest Posted on May 3, 2025 by DTMay 3, 2025
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Rules

Gerard Van der Leun
12/26/45 - 1/27/23


Gerard's Last Post
(posthumous): Feb 4, 2023
"So Long. See You All a Little Further Down the Road"

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

The following was posted along with the announcement of Gerard's passing.
Leonard Cohen - Going Home

For a 2005 interview with Gerard


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Most Recent Comments

  1. jean on InspirationJuly 10, 2025

    Not like I was pushin' ya out the door, senor, but have fun whenever :-) .

  2. DT on InspirationJuly 10, 2025

    I pictured you a bit older than that

  3. DT on InspirationJuly 10, 2025

    Not gone yet. Couple weeks yet. Need to head to the Far East before I can make in back to…

  4. SK on InspirationJuly 10, 2025

    Clever ditty.

  5. ghostsniper on InspirationJuly 10, 2025

    You've been waiting for it.... Epstein list: https://tinyurl.com/yt5yrcjm


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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you

Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'

I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it


Men who saw night coming down about them could somehow act as if they stood at the edge of dawn.


From Gerard's site. The picture always caught my eye.

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