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Some Thoughts On Usefulness | Ed's Big Adventure
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Ed's Big Adventure. Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life. Book Club Discussion Questions. Some Thoughts On Usefulness. June 16, 2015. Of course, I can also paint your house if that’s what you actually need…. Reflections on a great activity, inadequacy, thrilling in the chase. Practical Ways to Cultivate Awareness and Gratitude in Daily Life, Part 3 →. 2 thoughts on “ Some Thoughts On Usefulness. June 16, 2015 at 3:16 pm. I like that idea of writing for someone. A while ago I was re...
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Bike For Your Life! | Ed's Big Adventure
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Ed's Big Adventure. Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life. Book Club Discussion Questions. Bike For Your Life! It’s official. I’m a bona fide farmer! September 22, 2015. September 23, 2015. That’s right people. I just earned cold hard cash by doing farm work! This was so important to me that I even biked 30 miles just to get to work today, and boy am I tired. This after just three hours of harvesting tomatoes and squash. It turns out that farming is tough work! Rather than biking home i...
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Community | Ed's Big Adventure
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Ed's Big Adventure. Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life. Book Club Discussion Questions. Entering the story, painting the dump gray, and the last chicken. October 4, 2016. October 6, 2016. The evening spent with family was deeply touching and healing for everyone. Since I’ve already written about that, I’ll spare you further details. Once again, experiencing the theatrical production of One River at the moment I did, was just as meaningful, and seemingly divinely timed. And finished t...
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Reflections on a great activity, inadequacy, thrilling in the chase. | Ed's Big Adventure
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Ed's Big Adventure. Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life. Book Club Discussion Questions. Reflections on a great activity, inadequacy, thrilling in the chase. June 11, 2015. June 11, 2015. This post is in response to a reader who passed along a thoughtful comment in reaction to my newspaper column (pasted below). Her comments were rather encouraging, but they provide an opportunity to expound on something I’ve been thinking a lot of these days. Ideally, both hemispheres of the brain sh...
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A Window Into Food Farm’s Soul | Ed's Big Adventure
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Ed's Big Adventure. Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life. Book Club Discussion Questions. A Window Into Food Farm’s Soul. May 21, 2015. September 23, 2015. The day before yesterday I pedaled 60 miles roundtrip to make an appearance in a Kickstarter video for the Food Farm CSA. An image I’ll leave you with is spandex and rubber boots. Just kidding friends, I packed a full array of appropriate farm wear. At the Food Farm. Our passion is providing high quality food for our CSA members, a ...
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Ed's Big Adventure | Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life | Page 2
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Ed's Big Adventure. Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life. Book Club Discussion Questions. June highlights and a midlife crisis update. July 1, 2016. July 1, 2016. Hell just about froze over when I made the switch. No, we’re not talking transgender here, but the change was revolutionary on a cosmic scale. You just might have sensed a small tear in the space time continuum, in fact. It was super interesting with all the trains, cranes, and ships around. The super touristy part of tow...
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Practical Ways to Cultivate Awareness and Gratitude in Daily Life, Part 3 | Ed's Big Adventure
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Ed's Big Adventure. Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life. Book Club Discussion Questions. Practical Ways to Cultivate Awareness and Gratitude in Daily Life, Part 3. June 24, 2015. June 24, 2015. Climb a tree. If you have kids this one will be easy, and no one will look at you funny. If you climb by yourself, without regard for what others think, you’ll get bonus points! Have an open mind. Don’t be so closed off to new ideas. We all need to be continually reminded of this. Instead of di...
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Environmentalist wacko | Ed's Big Adventure
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Ed's Big Adventure. Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life. Book Club Discussion Questions. Of Wolves and Pecans. The Call of the Wild in all aspects of life. February 18, 2016. March 5, 2016. My son and I had wasted a frigid afternoon. We happened to be near a well-used trail where a wolf had killed a dog just two days prior (see the news story below). On a lark, we took a short stroll at sunset to see if we could discern any wolf sign…. Few creatures evoke terror and hostility in manki...
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An “Odd Couple” Producing Food and Art ORGANICALLY in the Heart of a Renaissance | Ed's Big Adventure
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Ed's Big Adventure. Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life. Book Club Discussion Questions. An “Odd Couple” Producing Food and Art ORGANICALLY in the Heart of a Renaissance. June 4, 2015. February 12, 2016. My quest to meet freaks, weirdo’s, people using useful skills USEFULLY, non-conventional humans, artists (who may or may not be human), continues. Today, however, I must return to a fascinating couple that I introduced in my recent post. Loose quotation of Wendell Berry by Annie).
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Family | Ed's Big Adventure
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Ed's Big Adventure. Adventure, reflection, simple living, and the good life. Book Club Discussion Questions. Sometimes you’ve got to dig a big hole. August 16, 2016. August 16, 2016. Digging a hole like this is a ton of work. Nothing about death is easy. It shouldn’t be. Rather than rushing off to a job, I picked up a shovel and commenced digging. Resisting tears, I drenched this soil with sweat instead. It was really cathartic. Perspective. Gratitude. Fortitude. June 11, 2015. June 11, 2015. This post i...
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