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ALWAYS LOCAL, ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL

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PLAINS LIVING

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Standing Half Forward Bend

SANSKRIT NAME: ARDHA UTTANASANA (ARE-DA OO-TAN-AH-SAH-NA)

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when we finally get home, we sit some more. Our spines crave a little TLC, and our postures desire to be improved.

The “Standing Half Forward Bend” is a simple pose that can be done almost anywhere (even at work to take a break from sitting). You find this pose in almost every yoga class. It’s also the perfect pose to strengthen the back muscles, improve balance and posture, and stimulate the abdominal muscles. It tones the spleen, liver, kidneys, and more.

1. Stand straight with your

big toes touching, and heels slightly apart. Firm the thigh muscles and turn in slightly.

Lengthen up from your thighs, all the way to the crown of the head, while lengthening the tailbone down to the ground (mountain pose).

From mountain pose, fold forward from the hips as far as you can without overextending your spine.

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Allow the shoulders to move away from your ears as they glide down your back.

Take about three breaths in this position.

Your spine should be long.

If you notice any rounding in the spine, bend your knees just a little bit more to straighten your spine.

To exit the pose: exhale, and return to a forward fold.

Place your hands on your hips, and on your next inhale keep the spine long as you return back to mountain.

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DIY

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Note: Thank you for keeping up with my DIY column over the last year or so. This project will be “wrapping up” this column for the time being. Our baby girl, Rosie, is due right around the time we upload our next issue, and I don’t know if I will be able to squeeze in another project before I pop!

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Wrapping Things Up T

HERE WAS A running joke at my baby shower in mid-February that my

favorite color is “boring,” and that I was not “fun” to shop for because I had the most minimal registry my family had ever seen. This is true, and I’m not apologizing for it.

Registries across the Internet give you these long checklists, telling you that you need everything from wipe warmers to shopping cart covers. I’m aware that I don’t actually need most of these things, so I registered for functional items in clean, neutral colors…I know. No fun.

DIRECTIONS 1. Measure the circumference

My struggle between “want” and “need” is usually caught up in online browsing.

Vendors featured on sites like Etsy provide myriad artisanal items that I desire far more than the manufactured items you can find in big-box stores.

The fun challenge with these handmade items is that many are just that…handmade.

Although I would love to be able to financially support every maker that I admire on the Internet, it’s the shipping costs that really get me! So, rather than explaining frivolous charges on our credit card to my husband, I usually resort to attempting to make these items myself. Luckily, these head wraps turned out to be a pretty easy attempt. I love that they are stretchy and soft, but not too girly or obtrusive. The best part? The whole batch of them cost me less than $10.

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of your little one’s head. Add anywhere from 4-6 inches to this number to determine the length of your headband. I created multiple lengths to be able to accommodate a growing baby. Mine ranged anywhere from 24 to 30 inches.

I would suggest the width of your band to be anywhere from two to three inches. When cutting the strip, double this number to account for the front and the back of the band.

Fold the strip onto itself and cut the ends at a 45 degree angle.

Sew the open sides together, leaving an opening in the center about 3 inches wide. I suggest using a zig-zag stitch to make sure that the fabric can stretch without breaking the thread.

Flip the wrap right side out by pulling both ends of the fabric through the 3-inch hole.

Hand-stitch the hole shut, press with an iron, and you are ready to tie that baby around your baby’s head!

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written by DAISY HUTZELL-RODMAN | photography by KEITH BINDER

The PetrickS GO FLY A KITE

Abby, Emily, and Ian Petrick

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HE WARMING, WINDY

days of April entice many Omahans outdoors after months of winter slumber.

For the Petrick family, April means it is time to fly kites.

They fly stunt kites, particularly the wing-shaped revolution kites. They fly single-line, 2-line, and 4-line kites. They belong to a kite flying organization and spend hundreds of dollars on kites.

The wide variety of kites is enough to make one’s head spin into the clouds.

And get this: They even fly kites indoors, often in school gyms or other large venues, to get their kite-flying fix during the winter months.

In essence, they use motion, typically walking backwards and in circles to launch the kite and keep it aloft. The strings can also be pulled in different directions to have the kite move in the air.

Obviously, flying kites is this family’s passion.

“Especially before the girls were in high school, we’d just pack a lunch and our lawn chairs and go hang out for the day,” mother Vicki says. The “girls” are daughters Emily, 18, and Abby, 17.

“Even now, if they find out we’re going to fly kites, they will still try and find out how to come with us,” Vicki says.

“I’m taking advantage of the time I have with them through kite flying,” Abby adds.

“It’s just fun,” says Ian, who turns 10 on April 14. “Sometimes, like when I’m flying like a four-line stunt kite, I can just sit on the ground and relax.”

Abby also enjoys flying four-line kites, because they are easier to control, more graceful, and make less sound in the air.

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< Todd one Christmas. The “two-string” refers to having one string each for your left and right hand, the stunt kite refers to the fact that this kite can be used to perform spins or twists in the air.

If you pull with your right hand, you make it turn right,” Ian says. “If you pull on your left hand it will turn left. If you pull and push it, it will start spinning.”

It doesn’t take a big financial commitment,” Todd says. “It’s a piece of equipment that you can buy once and have for a long time.”

“You can spend a lot, but you don’t have to,” Vicki says.

If choosing to spend money for one kite, it is often worth it to have the kite repaired.

Incidentally, Omahans can take their kites to Todd to be repaired. He repairs kite rods, or sticks, often with glue. The sails, or fabric, require a more skilled touch. Repairing one means matching the weave of the fabric and putting as few needle holes in the kite as possible.

“It [a hole] becomes a zipper and the whole kite comes undone,” Todd says.

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It’s a hobby that, while creating a relaxing family time, does require some concentration.

“When you see it on television in cartoons, they just toss it in the air and it flies,” Ian says.

“It’s really not like that. You have to have the right amount of wind and you have to know how to launch them.”

Ian, who is in fourth grade at Dundee elementary, says his favorite subject is science, especially physics.

The Midwest Winds Kitefliers, to which the Petricks belong, offers several community-friendly kite flies a year, where the members and other interested parties go into a field and fly. Organizer Don Murphy puts these together.

“Ooh, we get candy then,” Ian says.

Murphy organizes candy drops where he flies a kite with a basket of candy attached. At a certain point, the basket overturns, and, as with a busted-open piñata, candy rains from the sky with kids waiting underneath to catch the treats. The cities of Omaha, Papillion, and La Vista often donate the candy for the kids.

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The community kite flies offer people a chance to see a veritable rainbow in the sky…not from raindrops reflecting sunlight, but from the many different colors of kites in the sky, Emily’s favorite part of kite flying.

“It’s fascinating,” Emily says. “They are all unique.”

The Petricks are passionate about letting others experience their love of kite-flying. All three kids said one of their favorite parts about the hobby is teaching their friends to fly kites.

Vicki also recalls helping a kid-at-heart learn to fly a kite.

“We went to a Veteran’s Day thing at Eastern Nebraska Vets Home,” Vicki says. “They were having a picnic, and we were the entertainment.

One woman was, I think, 92. She flew her very first kite that day, and she was so happy.”

As were the Petricks.

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Creating Fine Lines

ONE JOURNAL, ONE WEEK, ONE PASSIONATE INSTRUCTOR

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WENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, a high-school teacher and a group

of self-described misfit teenagers gave birth to a tiny literary journal. It was a document, and project, seemingly as ephemeral as the cheap paper on which it was printed.

Central High School instructor David Martin created the 2-page pamphlet of writing based off the best of this class’ daily notebook entries.

The pamphlet spread like wildfire around the school, and eventually, to the community. Now, a quarter century later, that humble pamphlet has become Fine Lines, a 200-plus-page quarterly journal.

The journal’s success inspired Martin to go further in the Omaha literary scene. Seventeen years ago, eight people met for four hours a day during one week at Barnes & Noble in Crossroads Mall, crafting their work in a summer camp appropriately called Fine Lines. Martin used his skills

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as a writing teacher to show those eight campers how to clarify their writing and play with words. He helped them develop poems, essays, and short stories.

“We’re there to get the fire going—to foster creativity,” Martin says. “We go to great lengths to help kids of all ages and all abilities.”

Those eight kids enjoyed themselves, told their friends, and brought others with them to share the experience the next year. Those people told their friends, who told others.

“It’s been a lot of word of mouth,” Martin says.

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Each day begins with Martin himself talking for 15 minutes about the activities. At that point, a performer, writer, or musician will talk about his or her field and how creativity comes into play in that field. That becomes the metaphor for the day’s writing.

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“Every now and then when I’m writing and the words sort of elevate off the page…I can hear a tone,” Martin says. “When you’re really onto something and it’s really good, you can almost sing the words.”

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But there’s also something more meaningful that most campers receive.

“It was about being around people my age who loved doing the same things I loved doing, which was telling stories,” says Emma Vinchur, a student at UNL and graduate of Elkhorn South High School.

The camaraderie Vinchur gained from fellow writers inspired her to return annually. Last year was her 10th year at Fine Lines Camp.

The students are given a chance to read in the afternoon, and, ultimately, a chance to be published in Fine Lines.

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“I think for me, since I am in college and I am so busy, Fine Lines grounds me and reminds me of my love for creative writing,” Vinchur says.

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Seth Run!

MILLARD WEST'S SETH HIRSCH

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ETH HIRSCH CAN be seen at Lake Zorinsky

by 6 a.m. most mornings. He’s out there running laps around a lake most of us would struggle to walk once. He’s driven to become the best runner he can—and he is succeeding.

“He’s by far the best in the state of Nebraska,” says Colin Johnston, track and cross country coach at Millard West.

Hirsch, now a 16-year-old junior, has run the mile in 4 minutes and 30 seconds. He has broken the 15-minute barrier in the 5K.

For some context: the median time for a runner in their 20s to complete a 5K is about 25 minutes.

Add to his amazing times the fact that Hirsch also broke both fibulas last year.

“I was probably doing too much mileage and got stress fractures,” Hirsch says. He cracked one fibula in the fall while running cross country, the other in the spring while running track.

It’s not entirely surprising, given that he ran 90 miles a week.

After the discovery of each stress fracture, his doctor ordered him to take some time off. Even after taking nearly two months to rest, he was able to return in time for the track season and still place third at the state meet in the 3200.

He’s ready for it, he’s interested in it, and he knows what to expect. His sister, Sidney Hirsch, runs at Wichita State University.

That hard work extends to scholastics, in which Seth has achieved a 4.5 GPA weighted, and a 4.0 GPA unweighted. The extra weight comes from AP biology, AP European history, AP environmental science, and AP government and politics.

It was Sidney who got Seth into running.

“There aren’t that many kids I’ve worked with who have worked as hard as he does,” Johnston says. “He’s a great kid.”

All of this puts him in good standing to achieve that ultimate student goal…scholarship money.

“I’ve been talking to some colleges,” Hirsch says nonchalantly. “Portland, Wisconsin. Stanford, Georgetown. Columbia University in New York.

All of them have good distance programs.”

Right at the moment, it’s all just talk. Once July hits, the calls will likely start to pour in. (Law mandates that July before one’s senior year is the earliest a student can be recruited.)

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Sidney ran for her college this fall season, even though she suffered from plantar fasciitis in both feet. This affliction is an inflammation of the tissue along the bottom of the foot that connects the heel bone to the toes.

“My sister ran for Omaha Racers,” Seth says of discovering he wanted to run at age 10. “I went to some practices with her and I wanted to do it.”

Seth used to play soccer, but he quit this past year to focus on running.

“I just liked it the most, so I just decided to focus on that,” Hirsch says nonchalantly.

“I thought he was pretty good,” says his mother, Liz Hirsch. “The coach and everyone else was like ‘wow—this boy can run.’ I like that he’s found the passion for this.”

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• 3 ripe avocados, pitted, peeled, and mashed • 2 Tbsp fresh lime juice (about 1 lime) • 1/2 medium onion, diced • 1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and chopped • 1 plum tomato, chopped • 3 Tbsp chopped fresh cilantro • 1 garlic clove, minced • 1/2 tsp green hot sauce • 1 Granny Smith apple, peeled and diced • Black pepper to taste • 1/8 tsp salt • 1/2 tsp ground cumin

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Nutrition Facts: Serving Size: about 1/4 cup; Calories: 136; Fat: 10g; Saturated Fat: 2g; Cholesterol: 0; Sodium: 81mg; Carbohydrates: 10g; Fiber: 5g; Protein: 2g Yield: 8 servings

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