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    Working Towards a Better Way of Life

    Would you like to know what I’m doing on our homestead as we work towards a better way of life? Two years ago, I personally took a detour from our homestead living to help my youngest son pursue a new path for his betterment in our mountain home location. Last year, while I hoped to be more present on the homestead, circumstances dictated a different course for me. This year, I expect to be back on the homestead on a more full-time basis, and I’m looking forward to it. My husband has been holding down the fort here, so to speak, solo, for the better part of this past year.…

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    Shabbat Shalom, Y’all

    In 2009, or thereabouts, I began researching & studying the US Constitution, and the course I was taking led me to read the book of Deuteronomy anew. (The course itself was not religious in nature — it just referenced the books of the Bible where the Ten Commandments were listed.) So, after a short while, having meditated on the chapter containing the Ten Commandments (chapter 6), I took to heart the instruction (verses 6-9) to teach these commandments diligently to the children & talk about them all the time, posting them at one’s gates and on the posts of one’s home. Thus began my Ten Commandments Campaign.