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Tradition – Embrace Sense of Self, Sense of Place, Sense of Time

Is Tradition Bad or Good? – by Scott Miller. In a post earlier this summer, I shared how the fleeting scent ...

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All Communication is an Exchange

Communication is a Negotiation Talking about the Weather is the Icebreaker When someone has a mundane conversation, like the weather, do ...

I Was Wrong About Chicken Feather Sexing Technique

Determining the sex of a chick by the feathers doesn’t always work in the 2nd and 3rd generation. It is Year ...

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Don’t Let Inspiration Keep You from Getting Stuff Done

The Myths of Creativity “Sing in me, O Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways ...

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The Challenge of Being Present

Musings from the Firepit – It’s late May and my wife and I are sitting around the fire pit on one ...

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Teaching Kids that Failure IS an Option

Are you allowed to say “I don’t know”? “The most elementary statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is ‘I do ...