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2012-06-28T17:09:00-06:00

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Lessons from Doc: #7 Learn to like the song of birds, the companionship of dogs

Last updated on: June 28, 2012 at 5:09 pm By georgehandley

On #7, please see another great post by Kristine Haglund at this link:http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/06/29/learn-to-like-vii/ Read more

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2012-06-21T21:02:00-06:00

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On My Marriage

Last updated on: June 21, 2012 at 9:02 pm By georgehandley

As I read Kristine Haglund’s wonderful discussion of Lowell Bennion’s aphorism that we should learn to like people different than we are, I was struck by the comparison she made between our relationships with other people and with the creation itself. As a literary critic, I am well aware of a similar problem we create whenever we read. Peter calls it “wresting the scriptures,” but we might also simply call it narcissism. Instead of a window into another world, a... Read more

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2012-06-21T07:59:00-06:00

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Lessons from Doc: #6 Learn to like work and enjoy the satisfaction of doing your job as well as it can be done

Last updated on: June 21, 2012 at 7:59 am By georgehandley

Doc founded the Teton Valley Boys Ranch in the 1960s on the idea that work was inherently valuable and that boys needed to learn to like it. I don’t know why girls were not included in his objectives. He never spoke about this, as far as I know. Certainly there was only so much he could do with one ranch and one idea, but his successor and one of my heroes, Dick Jacobsen, bought the property years later and reinstituted... Read more

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2012-06-19T13:55:00-06:00

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Lessons from Doc: #5 Learn to like people even though they may be different… different from you.

Last updated on: June 19, 2012 at 1:55 pm By georgehandley

For a wonderful discussion of principle #5, go to this link and read a post by my friend Kristine Haglund: http://bycommonconsent.com/2012/06/19/learn-to-like-v/ Read more

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2012-06-14T07:36:00-06:00

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Lessons from Doc: #4 Learn to like fields, trees, brooks, hiking, rowing, climbing hills.

Last updated on: June 14, 2012 at 7:36 am By georgehandley

This might have the appearance as one of the easiest, dare I say natural, aphorisms of Doc’s, since appreciation of this sort would appear easy to come by. I have never met a person who did not have at least a modicum of respect for natural beauty of some kind. So it is curious, then, that much rarer are those individuals whose attachment to beauty is deep enough to forge a lasting commitment to the health and wellbeing of their... Read more

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2012-06-11T19:51:00-06:00

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Lessons from Doc: #3 “Learn to like plain food, plain service, plain cooking.”

Last updated on: June 11, 2012 at 7:51 pm By georgehandley

Doc loved gardens. He loved weeding and feeding people with the food he grew. I once ate fresh tomatoes from his garden in his kitchen. The Teton Valley Boys Ranch served plain oatmeal for breakfast. At first it made me gag, seeing as how I was 12, but I developed a love for the way it stuck to my stomach. At least that was my theory. I knew it was cheap, easy to make, and good for me, and I... Read more

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2012-06-08T17:56:00-06:00

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Lessons from Doc: #2 “Learn to like reading, conversation, music”

Last updated on: June 8, 2012 at 5:56 pm By georgehandley

The underlying principle of Doc’s aphorisms seems to be that it matters a great deal how we spend our time and where our deepest affections lie. This matters not only to our character but to the communities, large and small, of which we are a part. As I suggested in my previous post, this is in part because how we spend our time also tends to determine how we spend our money and resources, that is, how we consume. The... Read more

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2012-06-07T20:24:00-06:00

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Lessons from Doc: #1 “Learn to Like What Doesn’t Cost Much”

Last updated on: June 7, 2012 at 8:24 pm By georgehandley

“But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content” (1 Timothy 6: 6-8). Price, of course, is not always a reflection of quality, as I have sadly learned in this economy of increasingly poorly made products. We live in an economy that thrives on obsolescence, so durability is arguably at least one reason to buy... Read more

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2014-07-14T09:48:39-06:00

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My Debt to Lowell Bennion

Last updated on: July 14, 2014 at 9:48 am By georgehandley

In the last few months I have had the privilege of meeting two sons of Lowell Bennion, a man who had a stronger influence on the way that I think (and hopefully someday act!) as a Mormon than anyone else. On the occasion of both of these encounters, I felt overwhelmed with feelings of tenderness and nostalgia for their father perhaps because they held such a close physical resemblance to him but also because they were living out their lives... Read more

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2012-08-19T22:51:26-06:00

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“You are everything you feel beside the river”

Last updated on: August 19, 2012 at 10:51 pm By georgehandley

When I was writing Home Waters, I had to deal with dueling impulses. On the one hand, I felt surges of desire to write that were, at times, almost overwhelming, and it seemed that the only way to deal with them was to get out of the way as much as possible, to trust instinct, and to let myself believe, even if only for a moment, that I was up to the task of giving adequate expression to the totality... Read more

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