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Your Lawn and Your Life
From the Start Your Week with Steve newsletter of Steve Henderson Fine Art: Steve Says: “Before we lived in the country, we lived in town, and one year I decided to rework the entire backyard lawn with a maddox. Carolyn … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, frugal living, Green, Growth, home, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, News, Personal, self-improvement, success, Uncategorized
Tagged conform, conventional lawn, dandelion, lawn, natural, nature, neighbors, new grass, newsletter, plants, white clover
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Rejecting or Despising One Another
Today’s article was supposed to be about a magazine I used to write for, and how the owners — purportedly Christian — ran the place pretty much along standard, looks-like-any-other-business-these-days lines, but I couldn’t get the tone outside of the I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, Growth, home, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, religion, self-improvement, success, Uncategorized
Tagged acceptance, apostle Paul, Christianity, God, love, rejection, Romans
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Wind Power — for and by Small, Ordinary People
Sunday I spent the entire day reading. For hours and hours I absorbed myself in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, co-written by William Kamkwamba, the proponent of the tale, and Bryan Mealer. I was drawn to the book at my … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, book, climate, electric, Kamkwamba, Malawi, science, technology, wind power
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Harvesting Rainwater and Harnessing Wind
From the Start Your Week with Steve Newsletter — Steve Says: “They say that if you’re married to someone long enough, you eventually start to look like them. They say that about dog owners and their dogs, too, so I … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Brad Lancaster, climate, nature, newsletter, rainwater, science, William Kamkwamba, wind
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A Dead Mouse on the Desk
Despite living the simple life of milking goats and knitting lace and baking bread and participating in all those homey, warm, homesteading goodness activities, I do spend a significant portion of my day on the computer. Which isn’t simple at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, home, Humor, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, marriage, News, Personal, self-improvement, Uncategorized
Tagged computer, homesteading, problem, simple, solve, technology, wireless mouse
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Kombucha Adventures
I’ve been making Kombucha. I know, it sounds like a song that you sing around the campfire, but it’s a fermented black tea that sits around on the counter top, quietly revolutionizing itself into something totally unlike anything we consume … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, cooking, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Education, Encouragement, Family, Food, Green, Growth, health, home, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, success, Uncategorized
Tagged health, jar, Kombucha, tea
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Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Those of you who are afficianados of the 1960’s era Star Trek series (and if you’re not, you should be — it’s cheesey and profound at the same time) may recognize the title of this article from an episode, but … Continue reading
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Tagged artisan, beauty, impulse buy, saving money, Star Trek, tea pot
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Group Think — It Doesn’t Necessarily Involve Thinking at All
I’m a knitter. This is a fairly solitary occupation, in that you don’t need to be part of a team to do it, and it’s fairly doable to get good at this without classes, seminars, workbooks, DVDs, and weekly meetings. … Continue reading
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Tagged group, knit, Kombucha, perfectionist, think
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In 32 Seconds Your Life Can Change
Multi-tasking isn’t such a big deal. Women have been doing it since Eve. American women have finessed it to an art form. American women with children have attained the pinnacle of its supremacy. Most of this multi-tasking is mental, in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, children, Christian, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, grandparenting, Growth, home, homeschooling, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, News, Parenting, Personal, Random, Relationships, success, Uncategorized
Tagged cat, change, children, empty nest, knit, multi-tasking, women
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