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The Making of a Third Place, Pt. I: First It Was Exciting

Some backstory on our deli + market adventure
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Making plans, praying prayers, and throwing your life up in the air
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A quiet and simple life must also have some challenges
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You don't have to homeschool, but you can if you want.
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Making plans, praying prayers, and throwing your life up in the air
Or, "I am out with lanterns looking for myself," as Dickinson humorously noted
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Creativity and Motherhood
A discussion on time, justification, and rejecting "the images the world would put on us", with Aimee Guest
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Stopping by the window
And a change in perspective that comes at the mirror of true words
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Killing the birds
Rocks and rucks and rest
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Sunday Morning, Midlife Edition
One Sunday we were middle aged and tired and boring, and it was the best of times.
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A quiet and simple life must also have some challenges
It’s the end of another year and we’re all about to put our dreams and aspirations on some sort of scale, balancing what is reasonable against what we…
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Afterthoughts on communication, attention, and going slow
"The use of parentheses indicates that the writer considered the information less important—almost an afterthought."
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The world is my memory palace
“…now that I believe Christ has gone to prepare a place for me, I am free to receive the signposts as aids intentionally sent.” Amy Lee, This Homeward…
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Dumb things we say to kids
Toddlers, teenagers, and midlife
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