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Published on Linkedin, 14 Oct., 2024.

Not long ago, we were fortunate to be a part of Alan Jackson's concert audience in Lincoln, Nebraska.

My wife and I are boomers, there are still many of us out there. In celebration of our diverse nation, the United States of America, we would like to dedicate this Alan Jackson tune to our generation: https://lnkd.in/gi7geS6h

This month I grow another year wiser, in three months my wife becomes more beautiful.

I think we can all relate to the incredible lyrics of this tune. This my attempt to lift someone today, I hope every reader will do the same in memory of every boomer that's gone before us.

May your lives be filled with memories, inspiration and love.

Photo credit: Rupam Dewan Sangre de Cristo mountain range, so. Colorado

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Published on Linkedin, 7 Oct., 2024.

My ancient Anasazi, Ancestral Pueblo [known to many as American Indian] DNA predates 1492 by a lot, the Wildcat is a resilient survivor. We continue to respect all life of Mother Earth, the Ocelot [Wildcat] stocks prey with stealth and attacks instantaneously.

The Leopardus pardalis [Ocelot] wildcat inhabits North, Central and South America.

"Ocelots are nocturnal... When they're ready to eat, the wildcats don’t chew their food—instead they use their teeth to tear meat into pieces and then swallow it whole."

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"Cat-like animals appeared on this planet tens of millions of years ago. The wild cats we see today are believed to come from a common ancestor, pseudaelurus, who lived in Asia around 11 million years ago. The cats eventually migrated from Asia to Africa, North America, Central America and South America when the sea levels dropped and land bridges emerged." https://lnkd.in/gcX5h32p

Fun reading for K-State football fans: CU at the tailgate near the Flatirons [Boulder]

Photo credits: National Geographic

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"Contrary to the song “Home on the Range,” buffalo do not roam in the American West. Instead, they are indigenous to South Asia (water buffalo) and Africa (Cape buffalo), while bison are found in North America and parts of Europe."

"For in its wake, the lives of countless Native Americans were destroyed, and tens of millions of bison, which had roamed freely upon the Great Plains since the last ice age 10,000 years ago, were nearly driven to extinction in a massive slaughter made possible by the railroad."

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The ancient Anasazi and ancestral Puebloan [post 1492 referred to by many as the American Indian] relied on bison for subsistence (food, clothing, adornment, tools, blankets, shelter) a steady diet of bison meat was critical to survival. Many Anasazi and Puebloan, women, infants, children and men perished due to starvation and illness in route to reservations.

After many of its tribes and the bison were slaughtered to near extinction and the remaining indigenous people were forced onto reservations, bison was no longer an adequate food source, cattle were introduced instead.

We've inherited an enormous responsibility in learning to respect, protect and preserve all life of Mother Earth. The plight of the early bison was a warning to humans that their existence would be greatly threatened, even endangered with the real possibility of extinction if nature and man could not find a way to live in balance and harmony.

Today it is not only the bison that remain endangered. All natural resources including water, air, many creatures and habitats are disappearing.

Rather than becoming short minded and looking for a place to place blame, it is incumbent upon us to recognize our unwitting contributions to the problem of harming the Mother Earth by causing imbalance among her natural gifts.

Unless we change our habits, future generations may not only long for the return of the bison but may eventually discover there is no path for return of the human being. Creation is sacred, life is only perpetual when all things remain in balance, are free to reproduce and provide subsistence for us.

“All life is a circle. The atom is a circle, orbits are circles, the earth, moon, and sun are circles. The seasons are circles. The cycle of life is a circle: baby, youth, adult, elder. The sun gives life to the earth who feeds life to the trees whose seeds fall to the earth to grow new trees. We need to practice seeing the cycles that the Great Spirit gave us because this will help us more in our understanding of how things operate. We need to respect these cycles and live in harmony with them.”
― Rolling Thunder https://lnkd.in/gZZNFvhD

Fun quiz for K-State fans: Is it 'Buffalo' or 'Bison'?

Bison-hump at shoulder, short sharp horns, thick beards

Buffalo-no hump, large horns some 6 feet and pronounced arcs, large very pronounced horns up to 6 feet, no beard


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