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Sowing dreams
(Beware, this is an essay. Once you begin reading you may not stop, and there goes five minutes of your life, *poof*. The harvest of possibilities to be found in a vegetable garden in early spring is worth more in some … Continue reading
Posted in A to D, Essays, O to T
Tagged autism, communication, dreams, laughter, love, possibilities
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Home folks
On our way to Michigan for Thanksgiving a few years back, Janet and I stopped in my father’s birth and burial town of Elliot, Ill (pop. 327). I hadn’t been there in 50 years, but reports from two brothers who … Continue reading
Posted in E to H, Essays
Tagged Beatrice Fossel Hustead, Elliot Illinois, family, Fossel family, home folks, Rusty's Elliott Cafe
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Sowing dreams
(Caution this is an essay. You might read all the way through and lose 5 minutes of your life, *poof*.) The harvest of possibilities to be found in a vegetable garden in early spring is worth more in some ways … Continue reading
Posted in A to D, Essays
Tagged autism, dreams, Elsa MacCardell-Fossel, sign language, speech
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Speaking out
Okay, yours truly has a solid military background with the Marine Corps in Vietnam, medals and all, Purple Heart, but because of that other life I learned to know the truth and power of Nonviolence. And let’s say the last … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, O to T
Tagged Iraq war, marine corps, nonviolence, peace rally, speaking out, truth, vietnam war
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