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Sunday, February 28, 2016

"O'er all the tomb a sudden spring" Happy Easter!

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Mary Magdalene at the Empty Tomb While more romantic than religious, this poem still evidences belief in a literal, physical resurrectio...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Old Scouts Never Die, They Just Lose Their Comic Books

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This is another photo that needs its own blog post. I wrote last night to my tent buddy from my first Philmont Trek in 1971. We were pen pal...
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Monday, February 22, 2016

So Happy to See a Black President!

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PBS Newshour posted a great, "feel-good" video. A 106 year-old African-American woman meets the President and first lady in the Wh...

Nearly Dying by Lightning, Falling, or Exposure - A Typical Scout Adventure

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Lightning would have been the quickest. Falling most painful. And exposure takes a while but you usually fall asleep first which I didn'...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Bardd Rydw I - In Which I Become a Welsh Bard

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The first scribbles of an idea came at the beginning of my most recent audit of a Welsh reading class at Brigham Young University. OK, so we...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Nobody Should Leave the LDS Church. But if Conservatives Need an Excuse . . . .

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My Bishop is a really great guy. In one recent visit, I was expressing my exasperation over so many who leave the church because their liber...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Cynefin "A Sense of Place" Wales

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We have already shared some work from crowd-sourcing or indexing the Tithing maps of Wales  (1840s) for the National Library of Wales ( here...