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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Part 2: Annual Report on Charity Quilting
Project Linus is a national organization with an active chapter in the Kansas City metro. The KC group reports distribution of 140,041 quilts and blankets through the years and the national organization reports gifting 8,019,901 […]
Part 1: Annual Report on Charity Quilting
The year 2020 has come to an end … finally. In an attempt to move toward 20/20 vision as we look back on an out-of-focus, once-in-a-lifetime year (I hope), we offer our annual report to […]
From Saver to Spender
“This is the last time!” I have found myself saying various iterations of this sentiment in the past three months. I unreservedly declared that I was making my last move to a new house, at […]
Myths & Facts
Myths about Type 1 Diabetes Diabetes starts after eating too much sugar. False. T1D is an auto-immune disorder where the body attacks the beta cells that produce insulin. T1D can be reversed with diet and […]
Narrative Discipleship
A person can walk down any airport concourse in the world and see a pack of suitcases roller skating. The notion of wheels on luggage, however, took almost 100 years to catch on. Researchers have […]
Character
For the last thirty years I’ve worked diligently to sharpen my skills as a writer. I’ve been pondering this week about how the current political discourse would never be considered by a fiction publisher for […]
Gravy
A few weeks back, Oliver, Stella, and Miles were with us for breakfast. I told them about how much my mother liked gravy. That got us started. The first was … syrup is gravy for […]
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"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it."
Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House