El Mexico lunch

 To go lunch from El Mexico in Sandstone Minnesota 

Everything was so fresh tasting and cooked perfectly with large portions and great prices.

Liminal Spaces in the New Year

If you’re in a psychological liminal space, you’ve moved away from something mentally familiar and comfortable and toward a new idea, perspective, personal commitment, or area of self-growth.

 https://www.healthline.com/health/liminal-space-psychology#benefits

Liminal space images depict transitional places that are eerily empty of people, conveying a sense of "in-between". They can evoke moods of nostalgia, sadness, surrealness, or eeriness, and can elicit both comfort and unease. 

Subjects: Empty hallways, abandoned malls, nearly empty parking lots, stairwells, roads, corridors, or hotels 

Aesthetic: Eerie, uninhabited, unsettling 

Moods: Nostalgia, sadness, surrealness, eeriness 

Responses: Comfort and unease 

Time period: Often evoke the late 1980s or early 1990s - Wikipedia 

The winter holiday season is a time when liminal spaces of the mind come into play transitioning into a new year from the old.

Planning on leaving the old behind and bringing in the new. 

Sometimes leaving comfort for the unknown and sometimes leaving what was uncomfortable for a new start, with hopes of a better but unknown beginning.

Do liminal spaces give you comfort and spark your imagination or do do they create a feeling of unease. How do you feel when looking in from the outside? Excitement or dread. Something in between?

As you head out to holiday gatherings this season check your mind set and feelings and be aware when in liminal spaces of your comfort level and then think of where you are going and where you want to be.

Ugly Sweater parties this month

 

A couple of new December events to post

 

The Endzone bar & grill

 

 The Endzone Bar&Grill has multiple activities each week and has been my go to place for a great burger and drinks for many years.My picture does not do the burger justice but it's a must try if you are coming through on HWY 61  stop in and check out the menu and chat with the locals you won't be sorry!

Check the photos above for this weeks schedule of things to do.

If your just looking for an appetizer to hold you over I recommend the southwest spud. If you can't decide on a sauce try the homemade BBQ sauce it is a thick and sweet sauce with a bit of smoky taste, not your everyday BBQ  sauce ,trust me you will be looking for different things to dip it.