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Popcorn is essential on a long canoe trip. It’s compact and cooks easily: a little oil, a little salt and some heat. Everything about it

July 20th Take a moment and think of a teacher who made a difference in your life. How they made you feel better than you

The second half of my congregation will arrive soon. I’ll make a prediction: July 15th. Yes, I have a following, a multitude, actually as large

To see a bone in the tundra, white in the ruck of brown and greens is to see a piece of my future outside my

I have a practice. While I am out here, I’ll think of a person and focus on them for much of the day. Today, it

…is the rubber band.  In 1820, in England, Stephen Perry received the first patent to make rubber bands. Defined as a thin circular piece of