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Following Your Bliss The Organic Way
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ImageWhen you follow your bliss, as Joseph Campbell famously advised, who knows where it will lead you?  For Carol Ann Sayle, it led her on a winding path, the end of which she could not have predicted.  When she and her husband, Larry, bought a farm not far from Austin, Texas in 1982, it was just a refuge where they could enjoy a simple life of gardening and chicken tending on weekends.

Who knew that a midlife course correction would lead them to operating Boggy Creek Farm, one of the first and best known urban market farms in the country, and national acclaim as ‘pioneers’ of the local food movement?  

 


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Pitfalls of Sincerity
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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

~~  Oscar Wilde (Of course!)

 
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The Gift
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ImageThe circumstances bringing an end to a long marriage can be heartrending. But with time this writer recognized a silver lining behind the cheerless gray cloud of a break-up.  In her poem she alludes to her contribution to the friction in the relationship, the hurt that felt undeserved, and the acceptance that opened the way to a new life.
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