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Outdoor Encounters: Pebble & Pond
April 22, 2025
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Outdoor Encounters: Pebble & Pond
By Nathan Bolls on April 22, 2025
Most of us are aware of the notion that a pebble dropped into the ocean will, via a cascade of interconnected mechanisms, eventually affect the entire ocean. Sounds far-fetched, but the idea holds...
Grow Green Match Day: Future Nurses Appreciate Your Generosity
By Becky Fitzgerald on April 17, 2025
“You make a gift. We make it grow.” These two sentences, long associated with Grow Green Match Day, could have special meaning for Meadowlark Foundation’s Match Day donors. Not only do Grow Green...
Mingle for a Cause: pARTy on Poyntz Boosts Memory Program
By Becky Fitzgerald on March 28, 2025
Reacting to feedback from previous guests and with a yearly desire to entertain, engage, and evoke, the Art Mingle committee planned the early March event with several additions to prior fundraisers...
Philosophical Backpacking
By John Walters on March 20, 2025
In 1980, my friend, Jim, and I decided to hike in the Uinta Mountains of Utah. Stuart Johnson, another good friend from the Geothermal Branch of Philips Petroleum said if we wanted to find good...
March Madness: Basketball & a Blizzard in Liberal, Kansas
By Nancy Kopp on March 14, 2025
After a week’s visit with my brother and his wife in New Mexico, we were heading back to Kansas. Our plan was to go as far as Liberal, spend the night and on to Manhattan, our home, the next day. We...
Outdoor Encounters
By Nathan Bolls on March 6, 2025
How long has it been since you’ve experienced a moment of genuine healthful silence, a time during which you were profoundly, silently, reverently alone with yourself, or with Nature, or with another...
Hiking with Family
By John Walters on March 6, 2025
I talked to Karen, my first wife, about taking a short backpacking trip, just the two of us. She was the one who encouraged my backpacking several years before. I had been interested in Chesler Park...
Brain Changes & Mindset Shifts: Memory Matters Symposium set for March 24
By Katie Sigman on March 6, 2025
If you have the privilege of living long enough, you learn that one thing you can always count on is change. Changes that occur as we age may include retirement, wrinkles, growing families, and more...
Time to Dress Up!
By Becky Fitzgerald on February 27, 2025
Are your home or office walls a bit … well, naked? Perhaps you’d like to replace a mass-produced piece with an original. SNW Gallery in the HEART of downtown Manhattan is ready to help turn voids...
Meadowlark Lenten Lecture Series Invites Community Leaders to "Get Real"
By Rev. Melanie Nord on February 20, 2025
When I was young, I thought the season of Lent and Ash Wednesday was for Catholics. In fact, I knew little about either tradition until my second internship for my master’s program. My supervisor was...
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