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Our family strives to live life deep in socio-economic blended community as a wholistic model of American Dream prosperity. The untempered "normative" Western cultural models of continuous "up, more & go" have become shallow and exhausting to us. Plus, these lifestyle patterns have fostered community models that rarely allow time or space to do everyday life on a person's home dirt with people not just like themselves.

This creative space is where we tell our stories, share experiences and hopefully craft new ideas of mutuality through others input. We want to nurture dialogue and deeper thought around the "lived experiences" of others... "others" not just like us.

May we all be encouraged to think deep, dream creatively big

and choose to live different for the common good!

2020 Wordcrafting

I think it is extremely challenging to craft words and build understanding in a complex, globalized world. One of my main areas of struggle is with my two core environments, an urban city where I have lived most of the past 30 years and my home dirt, which is a small rural town, agrarian in nature. The dynamics of both beloved environments are very different; and, with that, I have to choose my words very differently in each setting. I get into trouble with my words more freq