Tag: The Swiss Family Carlson
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The Swiss Family Carlson Hurl Themselves Down a Mountain – Part 2
Last time we threw ourselves down a mountain on sleds. The next day we strapped two sticks to our feet and threw ourselves down a different part of the mountain. We did so well at not dying during the sledding that I felt like perhaps I could also not die while downhill skiing. Our oldest,…
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A Robert Frost Moment
I was walking back from the ski gondola tonight and found this scene. And I immediately though about Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening BY ROBERT FROST Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though;…
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I Must Be Out Of My Mind
I am in Kandersteg. Part of the Swiss Alps. And tomorrow I am going skiing. I have not been downhill skiing since the church youth trip to Afton Alps when I was 15. I was not particularly good at it and I spill down the hill losing both poles, both skies, my hat and a…
Mindy Carlson 