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Remembering Our Creative Center
December 19, 2011 My Future I don’t know where I picked it up, but I’ve never let it go. Every person is a created being and as a creature of Creation, we are naturally creative. Yet somewhere along the way to adulthood, many of us lose our belief that I am creative. Instead, we relegate…
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Fog Listening
December 13, 2011 JustLiving Farm One good thing about frozen fog mornings in December is the sound. The sound of quite frozen fog mornings is unlike anything else. Unlike mornings of snow-covered landscape that encases movement and sound, frozen air allows the wheatgrass to move with the slightest of breeze. The grasses dampened rustle plays…
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Working Toward Vocation OR Is It Playing?
December 9, 2011 If cold fog encased mornings aren’t good for anything else, they lend themselves to getting a little I keep putting this off writing done. If you are receiving this, it means you are subscribed to either JustLiving In This Landscape, the blog of the JustLiving Farm or Ridged Valley Reflections, the Journal…
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Home: Land of Paleo-Indians, Charles Goodnight, Quanah Parker, and Dairy Queen
November 30, 2011 Yakama Mission Native American Heritage Month Claude, Texas is home. Well, maybe better said, there is a piece of farmland about twenty miles south of Claude that has been home to my folk for a few generations. No one lives on the farm any longer. After uncle Howard died, no family member…
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Releasing Creative Self
November 26, 2011 My Future: Afterschool I don’t know where I picked it up, but I’ve never let it go. Every person is a created being and as such every person is creative. Too often we relegate art off to the “artist” as if we do not have a creative bone in our body. Art…
Chewing the Cud 