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Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

G.K. Chesterton

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—Hearth & Field Editorial Staff

The Work of Spring

Mr. Hadden Turner

A Meditation on
the Spring

Samuel Johnson
—1750—

On Betterments & Blunders

Alan Sullivan
—1915—

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Paper Routes

Working Hard & Humanely

Mr. Paul Schweigl

Mrs. Gina Loehr

"Farmers have families and hobbies and cars and opinions and animals and annual conventions and they are not all ancient men wearing blue overalls and straw hats."
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Dr. Jeff Gardner

"For one brief moment, I was completely where I was, who I was; I simply was, and nothing else."
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Dr. Dixie Dillon Lane

"In a thick context of children, chickens, charity, and chores, of diligent wage-work and mountains of laundry, the reality is that our best intentions are not always enough to keep our enterprise from overcoming our purpose. "
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Mrs. Becky Greene

"It became clear to us that, without making some rebellious decisions to keep us grounded, we would become subject to the same fate ...."
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Dr. Ryan Hanning

"As parents, our children should know that we are as excited for them to discover their mission in life as they are."
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Mr. Michael Warren Davis

"We call their novels 'fantasy' but they were, perhaps, the last of the realists. You can’t have flights of fancy like that unless you know something about life."
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Mrs. April Jaure

"[I]f it weren’t for motherhood and the necessity of acquiring some practical skills, I think I could have lived my whole life without being truly present for any of it."
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Mr. Rob Drapeau

"There is an art to being human and we have forgotten it. We have forgotten there’s a whole lot more to our species than opposable thumbs."
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Via Vitae

The Inbox

What Do I Do About Ants by My Plants?

The Autumn and the Fall of Leaves

Hilaire Belloc
—1906—

Profiles in Craftsmanship

Stay of the Soul

John Henry Newman
—184o—

Fieldnotes

Dispatches from the Interior

Talking to Strangers

Dr. Dixie Dillon Lane

Massaged by the Media

Massaged by the Media

Staying Afloat in an Environmental, Media Maelstrom

Dr. Jeff Gardner

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Amazon, Tolkien, and the

American Technocracy

Dr. Ben Reinhard

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Chesterton's Swordstick

Mr. Michael Warren Davis

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Why?

Springing Forward, Falling Back, and Changing Times

Mr. Matthew Giambrone

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Brewing Beer, Building Culture

Dr. R. Jared Staudt

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Dear Google,

You Are Not Homeschool

Mrs. Gina Loehr

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Land, Limits, & the Scandal of Reparations

Dr. Allan C. Carlson

Subsidiarity (Small Detail 1)

Subsidiarity, Participation, and the Common Good

Mr. Joe Cady

Lizzie Magie

Lizzie Magie & the Robot Barons

Monopolizing the Twenty-First Century

Mr. Samuel Butterofen

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A Return to Normalcy

Parents as Primary Educators

Dr. Ryan Hanning

The Intentional Kitchen

Wandering Reviews

Little Women Small Detail 1

Why Jo Has To Marry Professor Bhaer

A Review of Little Women , Then and Now​

Coriolanus

Shakespeare & the Fate of America

A Review of Coriolanus

GoodForWhatAilsYou

Good for What Ails You

A Review of Bourbon Whiskey

Beatrix-thm

Understanding Suffering in Times of Pandemic (or Anytime)​

A Review of C.S. Lewis' Classic The Problem of Pain​

John Wayne

Strike Anywhere

A Review of Matches

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It’s the Oikonomia, Stupid

A Review of Durable Trades

Ink and Echoes

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