Category Archives: Essays

Sowing dreams

Posted on March 3, 2011 by lifegrower

(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 →

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Home folks

Posted on February 4, 2011 by lifegrower

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 →

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Sowing dreams

Posted on February 4, 2011 by lifegrower

 (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 →

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Speaking out

Posted on February 1, 2011 by lifegrower

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 →

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