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Bench Marks: The People And Places Lifting Us Up When We Are Down
February 13, 2018 // Community, Community Change
![Peets Hill, Bozeman, Montana](/content/articles/ic_1518645437_400x300_true.jpg)
Psychotherapist Timothy Tate: It's tough work fighting to save the communities we love and finding ways to avert the trail of despair
Read MoreProjecting Nature's Beauty—Rejecting Blight In Building And Thought
February 7, 2018 // Co-existence, Community, Community Change, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly
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Lori Ryker says we live in a spectacular place, so why doesn't architecture always treat it that way?
Read MoreThe Future Of The Local Small Town Ski Hill
February 1, 2018 // Big Art of Nature, Community, Community Change, Public Lands
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Sue Cedarholm paints a picture that speaks to both nostalgia and concern about Snow King
Read MoreOf Dads And Mountain Daughters
January 30, 2018 // Community, Community Change, Culture
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A foundational relationship in a woman’s life, its impacts lasting a lifetime
Read MoreImagine Foreign Invaders Coming Into The Land
January 26, 2018 // Community, Community Change, Culture
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Poet Lois Red Elk serves as translator on a road trip and pays homage to Ella Cara Deloria
Read MoreThe Midlife Crisis Trilogy: To Live Or Die
December 28, 2017 // Community, Community Change
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In the conclusion of Timothy Tate's series 'When Peter Pan Enters Middle Age', Walt faces his moment of truth
Read MoreA Mountain Town Man Hits The Wall Of A Midlife Crisis
December 4, 2017 // Community, Community Change
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In Part 2 of Timothy Tate's series "When Peter Pan Enters Middle Age", Walt hits the couch behind The Blue Door
Read MoreWhen Peter Pan Enters Middle Age
November 21, 2017 // Community, Community Change
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So full of vim and vigor in their youth, men in many mountain towns live lives based on athletic achievement, independence and focus on self—and then middle age delivers a crushing blow of reality
Read MoreChasing Summits And Running Toward The Sun
October 31, 2017 // Community, Community Change
![The path into wild can lead us to ourselves and, in turn, knowing who we are helps us to better appreciate wild places, Timothy Tate says.](/content/articles/ic_1509482717_400x300_true.jpg)
One week after Timothy Tate wrote provocatively about tragedy in the mountains, the MoJo columnist pens another on humility—and the ethic of using, but not using up, the places that personally inspire
Read MoreA Tragedy In The Mountains Highlights Pain Facing The Young
October 16, 2017 // Community, Community Change
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In mountain towns like Bozeman and Jackson Hole, extreme athletes are modern heroes. When something bad happens, it should cause all of us to hold our kids closer
Touching Meaning In A Small-Town Funeral Procession
October 1, 2017 // Community, Community Change
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Bozeman, Montana Psychotherapist Timothy Tate Riffs On The Struggles Of Finding Purpose While Living Beneath The Big Western Sky
Read MoreSelling Off The Historic Playground To Pay For Growth
September 14, 2017 // Community, Community Change
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Mountain Journal columnist and downtown Bozeman businessman Tim Crawford says growth doesn't pay for itself. And there's no better example than Bozeman public school officials potentially selling off a beloved historic playground to meet budget shortfalls.
Read MoreSearching To Find The Soul Of Community In The Welter Of A Boom
September 12, 2017 // Community, Community Change, Growth—Good, Bad & Ugly
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To save the best of what remains in Montana's Gallatin Valley, Lori Ryker says leaders and citizens must start thinking holistically—Now.
Read MoreEven In Paradise, Everyone Needs To Heal Something, Especially The Seemingly Invincible
August 23, 2017 // Community, Community Change
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Confronting the myth of perfection, columnist Timothy Tate, a practicing psychotherapist in Bozeman, writes about "distress" accompanying radical changes in mountain communities
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