Tag: community
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Family Shopping Trip
Stephanie, our two youngest sons, and I took a trip to Target. I like these trips. They get us all out of the house. They get the boys out into the community. And they put our family in context locally. Well, maybe not the last one. I’d be surprised if anyone remembers us going to…
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Hometown Health Store
We went to a store called Basics Health today. It’s a fully functional health orientated grocery store. It occurred to me that I had been going to Basics for forty years. I would walk home from school as a teenager and it was a little shop along the way. My parents never objected to me…
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Autists and Artists Welcome
My wife (Stephanie) and I are discussing how to build a community on the principle of sanctuary. No guns, no drugs, self defense beyond that.
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Wealth and Children
What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to? I’ve talked a little about having more wives and children. That is probably a risk I will never take though, so I will focus on one that wouldn’t likely get me put in jail: Real Estate. I don’t own any land…
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A Relationship not a Religion
You’ve probably seen people typing or maybe even talking about their walk with Jesus Christ being “a relationship not a religion.” I have always been suspicious of the idea. I grew up in the Episcopal Church and for all its faults it was still a community of believers. There is a power in organized religion…