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As everyone around us prepares for this strangest of winter storms, I must admit something.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always had a soft spot for the Ural Mountains: <\/div>\n
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Don\u2019t ask me why.\u00a0 But something about the Russian winter landscape has always touched a nerve with me.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s because of this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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My favorite part of BalletMet\u2019s Nutcracker<\/em>, a big part of our annual rituals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I\u00a0don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I think of friends of mine from my ministry days that were from the former Soviet Union: Larissa, Sasha and Luba, and Vladimir.\u00a0 I wonder how they are doing.\u00a0 Who knows.\u00a0 Someday\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As everyone around us prepares for this strangest of winter storms, I must admit something.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always had a soft spot for the Ural Mountains: \ufeff \u00a0 Don\u2019t ask me why.\u00a0 But something about the Russian winter landscape has always touched a nerve with me.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s because of this: My favorite part of BalletMet\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nIn preparation for the winter blast of 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As everyone around us prepares for this strangest of winter storms, I must admit something.  I've always had a soft spot for the Ural Mountains:\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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