January in Rangely has a way of resetting you. Maybe it’s the cold. Maybe it’s the quiet. Maybe it’s the feeling that the rest of the world is spinning out somewhere far away while this little town just keeps doing...Rangely.

I was still trying to make sense of everything that had happened over the past year… and then January 6th happened. The Capitol. The chaos. The insurrection... The shock that wasn’t really shock because of who we were dealing with. I had already recorded the episode about it, already tried to wrap my head around it… but my mind kept drifting back to it....

It felt strange. Surreal, honestly. Because while I was replaying the images in my head — the shouting, the broken glass, the absolute insanity of it all — Rangely didn’t even flinch. Some folks barely mentioned it. Some seemed like they hadn’t heard much about it at all. And others didn’t see it the same way I did.

That was one of the first lessons this winter gave me… people live in the same world, at the same time… and still somehow live in different realities. And life just keeps goin... Doesn’t matter if the country is losing its mind. Doesn’t matter if you’re confused or upset or trying to figure out what the heck just happened. You still wake up. You still shovel snow. You still go to work. You still make coffee.

I guess that’s how it works everywhere. Just felt louder here.

Meanwhile, winter...and life.... wasn’t interested in waiting for me to get my head straight…

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This wasn’t part of the plan. It wasn’t supposed to happen. Or was it? A few times in each generation… we get up… turn on the news… and everything changes. I have lived through one of these moments in history. September 11, 2001. Today would be my second.

What have we become? And how did one man drag a nation this far?

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We awoke to a 20 degree morning in Meeker... so things had actually warmed a bit since our arrival the night before. We took our time this morning...pulling out of Meeker mid day. Just 50 miles separated us from Rangely.... but with nothing but quarantine to greet us there... there was no hurry. We stopped along the way to check out the December scenery on the Western Slope. We’d pull into Rangely late afternoon. Snow... everywhere. Skies darkening...and temps dropping again....rapidly. The kind of cold that doesn’t bother introducing itself before it gets to work on your bones.

It’s Christmas, but it doesn’t feel like it. It feels like another day in a long line of days that have all blurred together. That’s not unusual for us. Holidays never carried the magic...for me... everyone else seems to feel. Too much noise. Too much pressure. Too much pretending.

But this Christmas… it’s different. Not because it’s special.

Because it’s heavy.

We backed into our spot at the RV park, tires crunching over all the fresh snow. I’m watching the temperature on the dash dip down to eight degrees, then seven, then five as night fell. There’s something about pulling into a place that cold... I mean... Really cold...

It’s quiet... but it makes you pay attention.

And for the first time on this adventure of ours... the first thing we’d have to do after plugging in... shovel our driveway! I can’t remember the last time I had to shovel snow... and I quickly remembered why I hadn’t missed it.

I’m not really thinking about Christmas. I’m thinking about the reason we’re here…

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