Rural Life
Rural Life
On Days Like These
On days like these, when we see gigantic headlines no matter where we look or what we read, when we [...]
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Rural Life
A New Year: Expanding the Limits of our Creative Minds
We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers. [Bill [...]
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Rural Life
Rediscovering Magic at the County Fair
Being back at the Lac Qui Parle County Fair immediately transported me to the days of my youth as I [...]
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Rural Life
Casting Anchor in the Scarcity of Rural Life
Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I’s. But in only one of [...]
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Rural Life
Awareness in a Waiting World
David Whyte, the poet and philosopher, captures the essence of awareness in his poem, Everything is Waiting for You:  Your great [...]
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Rural Life
Creating Space in the Granary Studio
There is a therapy in fields – east, west, nothing speaks but the sky. … Could I live like this? [...]
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Poetry
What Do You Want to Remember?
The poet William Stafford asks the following in his beloved poem, "You Reading This, Be Ready": Starting here, what do [...]
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Rural Life
What Choice Do We Have?
How do we go on living, moving, breathing, and creating knowing that our nation is so divided? I woke up [...]
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Rural Life
To Slow Living & More Campfires
Far too often we find ourselves stuck in the hamster wheel of busyness. In an effort to accomplish everything we think [...]
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Poetry
Amtrak: Camaraderie in Suspended Time
I am lucky to have this season of life to slow down and take in my surroundings. I took my first [...]
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