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“Post-holing in Rocky Mountain National Park is a strong memory – basically that entire month is a winter memory. Minnesota in winter time…wrapping my face during the polar vortex to get to the Caf and sledding down the hill on a caf tray.”<\/em><\/p>\n “Spending Christmas with my family of origin at a poorly heated summer cabin near Brainerd. We had to hike through snow for a long ways to get to the cabin (impassable by car), dragging our gifts\/belongings with us, and I spent the Christmas complaining under a blanket with a space heater in my lap. That being said, I also have one of the most beautiful pictures of my late dad from that trip, so kind of a yay-boo.”<\/em><\/p>\n performed at and written for The Tank<\/a> on 2\/5\/2019<\/p>\n if you’d like to contribute to the almanac send a voice note of your winter memories to gcoleman.mn[at]gmail.com<\/em> .\u00a0 please include your name and the city where you live .<\/p>\n midwinter almanac – score<\/strong> it’s january 31st , 1995 and outside the window there is snow on the ground .<\/p>\n [mom birth]<\/em><\/p>\n a year later in 1996 the temperature in Minnesota hit a record low .<\/p>\n [mom sled]<\/em><\/p>\n time passes , ’97 , ’98 , ’99 …<\/p>\n [footsteps 1 fade up]<\/em> … the 2000s come and go and every year on my birthday …<\/p>\n [ben fort]<\/em><\/p>\n … i would wake up to the gift of fresh snow on the ground .<\/p>\n [landon nose]<\/em> as I continued through school and went off to college , having snow on my birthday became a kind of barometer – a reminder that despite hardship and a changing world things were okay .<\/p>\n [footsteps 2 fade up]<\/em><\/p>\n following 2013’s polar vortex – the last three years of college were relatively mild , but the snow continued to appear .<\/p>\n [footsteps 2 full volume]<\/em> and even after moving into the warm arms of atlantic last year I still found snow on my doorstep at the end of january .<\/p>\n but this year the snow didn’t come , despite my hopes during the squall last wednesday nothing stuck and it struck something in me that’s been struck more and more often ,<\/p>\n [remember 1 fade to full]<\/em><\/p>\n the idea that the world i grew up in no longer exists – that it hardened alongside me during my adolescence – while I wasn’t looking .<\/p>\n [remember 2 fade to full]<\/em><\/p>\n and so i cast around to family and friends , digging for images and sounds in the hopes that –<\/p>\n [remember 3 fade to full]<\/em><\/p>\n even as a predictable climate fades from our planet – by documenting these memories I could freeze some part of the planet that raised me<\/p>\n [piano begins]<\/em><\/p>\n find a place of stillness in the motion .<\/p>\n [beat]<\/em><\/p>\n [remember compress\/fade down slightly]<\/em> [all fade] Contributers: [soundcloud url=”https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/571351665″ params=”color=#a48c7c&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” \/] “Post-holing in Rocky Mountain National Park is a strong memory – basically that entire month is a winter memory. Minnesota in winter time…wrapping my face during the polar vortex to get to the Caf and sledding down the hill on a caf tray.” “Spending Christmas with my family… Continue reading midwinter almanac<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriel.town\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncompiled by gabriel coleman<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n[lena pink]<\/em><\/p>\n
\n[footsteps 1 full volume]<\/em><\/p>\n
\n[footsteps 3 switch]<\/em><\/p>\n
\n[lena piles]<\/em>
\n[landon siberia?]<\/em>
\n[ben coats]<\/em>
\n[mom hills]<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>[footsteps 1 fades into phone fuzz]
\n<\/em>[fuzz fades]<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Deanne Coleman (Randolph, MN)
\n<\/strong>Landon Kramer (Danbury, CT\/Onalaska, WI)<\/strong>
\nMiller LaMotte (Anoka\/Minneapolis, MN)<\/strong>
\nLena Greenberg (Quetzaltenango, Guatemala\/Brooklyn, NY)<\/strong>
\nBenjamin Coleman (Randolph\/Coon Rapids, MN)<\/strong>
\nCosimo Pori (Brooklyn, NY\/Albuquerque, NM)<\/strong>
\nKatherine Maxwell (Chicago, IL)<\/strong>
\nKimberley Allmann (Farmington, MN)
\nLynn Yellen (Brooklyn, NY)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"