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we are leaving today for indiana....My sister's in-laws attend a friends church in Winchester IN and we are going there this sunday to hang out and make new "friends"! dave will be caring for the chickens and the starts while we are away...

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http://franklinton.wordpress.com/

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Jack Kerouac on H1N1They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too

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AKRON, Pa. -- The Washington Office of Mennonite Central Committee(MCC) U.S. has joined other religious groups in asking Congress topass legislation protecting millions of acres of land.The Public Land Management Omnibus Act would establish wildernessareas in West Virginia, protect mountainous land in Wyoming and wouldprovide Congressional authorization to permanently recognize theNational

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spent today preparing a space for seeds. I added some additional insulation to a small cinderblock room in the cellar and threw in a space heater and should have water to the room within the week. Started some onions (copra)... should be a good storage onion from fedco catalog... Hard medium-sized storage onions with blocky round shapes and thin necks. The standard storage onion for commercial

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Super Bowl halftime sponsor Bridgestone Firestone continues to exploit workers in LiberiaFriday, January 30 2009 @ 11:04 AM CSTContributed by: WorkerFreedomViews: 66SportsSince 1926, Bridgestone Firestone has operated the world's largest rubber plantation in Harbel, Liberia . Workers on the plantation have long faced incredibly poor living and working conditions. Firestone rubber tappers live in

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This was the goal of the leaf and the root,For this did the blossom burn its hour.This little grain is the ultimate fruit.This is the awesome vessel of power.For this is the source of the root and the bud...World unto world unto world remolded.This is the seed, compact of God,Wherein all mystery is enfolded.- Georgie Starbuck GalbraithKerri and I placed our seed order this week. Kerri also baked

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The New York TimesJanuary 5, 2009Op-Ed ContributorsA 50-Year Farm BillBy WES JACKSON and WENDELL BERRYTHE extraordinary rainstorms last June caused catastrophic soil erosion in the grain lands of Iowa, where there were gullies 200 feet wide. But even worse damage is done over the long term under normal rainfall - by the little rills and sheets of erosion on incompletely covered or denuded

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Yesterday was spent in the kitchen... baking pies, singing songs, feeding my children. It was rich and rewarding. I recently read how stability and love inform one another and bring a deep rich contentment that is hard to explain. It brings me a "calmness of heart that allows a deeper, slower growth."Never could I have imagined that at Christmas 2008 I would be awaiting the arrival of my

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Iron & Wine is scheduled to perform their song "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday, January 5, 2009. "Flightless..." was recently been featured in the film Twilight and is also included on the Twilight Soundtrack. The song was originally released on the Iron & Wine album, The Shepherd's Dog.

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prolific freestylek'naan brings a voice to the voiceless somalians in this countyMy somali friend and I listened hand in hand here at work to a number of his songs. he also introduced me to sadar ali

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http://ammenda.livejournal.com/

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Circular Painting from Fly on the Wall on Vimeo.

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I guess caring about human life makes you a terrorist these daysMd. Police Listed Green Group As Terrorist

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SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCENational PBS Broadcast on the "P.O.V." Series:Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 9pm ** Check listings for local broadcast date and time:http://www.pbs.org/pov/tvschedule.php"Has an eloquence and passion that will open hearts as well as eyes."- The Seattle Post-IntelligencerTheir country asked them to kill. Their hearts asked them to stop.A documentary film about our

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IMG_1044Originally uploaded by estetlerthey keep climbing

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IMG_1052Originally uploaded by estetlerhot stuff making brownies

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SUSTAINABILITY NEWS OF THE WEEK: POSITIVE SOLUTIONS-- FROM PANIC TO ORGANIC While consumers struggle to fuel their cars and put food on the table, oil companies (like ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhillips) and seed companies (like Monsanto, Cargill and ADM) are raking in record profits. In a fiery essay posted on the Common

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By Tim ShenkAKRON, Pa. -- Longtime peace advocate Titus Peachey said he is amazedand pleased that 111 countries formally agreed to adopt a ban oncluster bombs at a recent international conference that he attendedin Dublin, Ireland.Peachey, director of peace education for Mennonite Central Committee(MCC) U.S., said that the ban is a great step toward ending the useof a weapon that kills civilians

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so we've moved to the west side of dwntwn columbus... life is great, but something is missinga local coffee shopView Larger Map

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She is the strongest woman I know.I love her more than anyone on the earth.She is brilliant.She is compassionate.She is dedicated.She posesses wisdom .She takes NO bullshit.She is beautiful.She is so much more, and more.

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By Tina SchragNORTH NEWTON, Kan. -- Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Central States isresponding to a May 12 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid atAgriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa.In the raid, 389 workers without documentation of citizenship or otherlegal status were captured and detained. ICE had a caravan of buses readyto cart the people away to the National

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