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Paula Vandervoort — Kindred Animal Spirits
. It’s not often that I meet someone who just makes me say, “Wow.” When Paula and I met at my Feathered Spirit Annual Retreat this year, time just flew by when we were connecting. She is a woman...
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Barbara Brown — Mini Moo Cows Farm
. When I get completely lit up about who I want to be when I grow up, I go for all the mystery of John Muir’s explorations, the wonder of doing it myself, and the intrepid fierceness of Barbara...
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Kevin Gaines — Sky Kings Falconry
. I’ve got this stairway of curiosities hidden away inside me. No matter which step I’m on, there’s something fun to discover. But when I hit the falconry step, I’m off and running down halls of...
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Suzanne King — My Chicken Diaries
. What would you do if you just bought a farm and found out you were no longer able to use your hands in the same way? a) Curl up in a ball and cry. b) Wear a dent in your couch where you’re still...
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Indigenous groups of Australia connect deeply to the land. For Australian aborigines, “The Dreaming” is known as the spiritual realm that envelops our reality. When cultural heroes traveled through...
View ArticleMink Coat Morality
Mamaw’s mink coat hung in her closet right by the garage door. That was where you entered her house if you really mattered to her. And pretty much everybody who came there did. I remember crunching...
View ArticleAvoiding the Carnival of Senseless Blather
There’s nothing like slowly greeting the morning with a good cup of coffee — and a GEICO lizard doing push-ups by your side. Nothing radiates the color spectrum like a green anole. And nothing says I’m...
View ArticleBreakfast at Inner Peace
Holly Golightly knows all about the mean reds. Remember that scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s where she wakes up drinking milk from a champagne glass? “I don’t want to own anything until I can find a...
View ArticleHow Billy Minser Edited His Life
Few people could actually convince me that waking up at 4:00 in the morning to go trap racoons would be worth my while. And even fewer people could make me like it. All Billy Minser had to do was bark,...
View ArticleHow to Turn Your Life Dream into Your LifeStyle
“You can be anything you want to be if you’d just put your mind to it.” Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, blah. On my 7th birthday, I was still pissed that I couldn’t turn into a chimpanzee. But I never...
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