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The Boy With No Toys
Image courtesy of eyeofboa.deviantart.com Before he was born, his mother decided her son would have no toys. Abandoned by the father, she was already a single parent. She made a living cleaning for...
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Global Village Construction Set
It’s possible to plant 50 trees in one afternoon. To press 5,000 bricks from the dirt beneath your feet in one day. To build an affordable tractor in six days. It’s possible thanks to the members of...
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What’s To Love About Pinterest
Creativity103's Flickr photostream Are you on Pinterest? This virtual pinboard lets us create, organize, and share what we find online. Because it’s a visually-oriented site, it attracts us using...
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Respecting A Child’s Urge To Discover
misspenthopesxx.deviantart.com The kids had a bunch of boards, some old nails, a hand saw, and a few hammers. They also had the two most important ingredients, the desire to make something and the...
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Why You Care About (insert celebrity here)
Close proximity to loved ones. (dhgoodman’s flickr photostream) The distance between a baby in arms and nursing mother is eight to 15 inches, perfect for the focusing ability of a newborn. Even the...
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Truly Inhabiting Time
CC by 2.0 MK Feeney’s flickr photostream Last night I sat in a dark theater next to the man I love watching The Imitation Game. It was a compelling story, brilliantly acted. Yet several times during...
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The Ache to Make
aryundomiel.deviantart.com My daughter needs a new pair of pants hemmed. I dig through a jumbled box of vintage thread for the right color. I find it, gray the color of a mourning dove, wrapped on a...
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Who Are You When The Power Goes Out?
Over a decade ago a power outage started in Ohio, rapidly spreading to four other states and parts of Canada. In some places power wasn’t restored for days. For a time, systems with backup generators...
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An Underachiever Named Bart
Image: TaskedAngelStock I was a good student. I wrote neatly and handed my work in on time. Sure, I got in trouble a few times in the early grades, like the time my teacher called home to tell my...
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A Mother’s Intuition and 9/11
A happier vacation moment. Like everyone else on September 11, 2001, where we were and what we were doing is locked into our memories. My family’s experience that day served to remind me that a...
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