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I was dreading the drive through Kansas. Everyone said – it’s as flat as a pancake, you’ll have to pinch yourself to stay awake. I was on the last leg of my journey, from Ohio to Colorado. A straight road ran to the horizon with no end in sight. Then …
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A reader asked me to write more about my impending “emigration” from Ohio. I had likened my journey to my grandparents’ trip to America more than 100 years ago and noted some similarities – being a stranger there, having to build a new life.
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Here is a short report on my first act of kindness. Must walk my talk, after all. The act? Giving 9 little gift bags with flowers and candy to workers and patients at the Woodlands Healthcare Center. Why workers?
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When taking a walk, I happened upon these magenta berries – so unexpected and so beautiful. I love discovering small, unexpected gifts of nature. Then I wondered – what if I tuned in to small acts of human beauty, of kindness?
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“Art is something people can disagree about in a way that brings them together,” Pat Miller said. She should know. Miller has been working in community arts for 30 years and has brought lots of people and organizations together.
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Solo Elisa Young moved to rural southeast Ohio in the mid-1990s to help take care of her grandmother. She returned to live a sustainable life on a farm that had been in her family for seven generations and where she had spent her childhood summers. Little did she know then what her future would hold.
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