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Bits and clips is a monthly feature on this blog of the best that I read, saw, or heard on the internet during that month. I hope you find something in the links below that is helpful, enlightening, inspiring, motivating, or thought provoking:
Art:
Why It’s Great to Be An Artist
Prepping for Snow with Barbara Jaenicke
Photography:
American Institute of Architects Best of 2017
Spirituality:
How Faith Helped My Son After He Survived Sandy Hook
Bucking a trend, these churches figured out how to bring millennials back to worship
The Day I saw Beyond the Tax Issue
Ideas:
We Should Remember that the World is Wide
Tether Yourself: The Enlightening Talk Parents Aren’t Having Can Keep Teens from a Damaging Drift
Are There Generational Differences When It Comes To Sexual Harassment At Work?
Hermann Hesse on What Trees Teach Us about Belonging and Life
Trump Orders Largest National Monument Reduction In U.S. History
This Parenting Mistake Could be Why Anxiety is at an All-Time High
Bootstrapped Farmgirl Flowers Is Taking On The Flower Industry And A Host Of Venture-Backed Rivals
Raising Dudes that are Manly in all the Right Ways
What Meghan Markle Did at Age 11 (video)
Time Person of the Year: Silence Breakers
How Should We Respond to Sexual Harassment?
What Parents Neglect to Teach about Gratitude
52 Celebrities Who Don’t Drink Alcohol
Largest Employer in Every State
The Woman Beside Wendall Berry
Books:
‘The difficulty is the point’: teaching spoon-fed students how to really read
Why You Should Surround Yourself With More Books Than You’ll Ever Have Time to Read
Food:
Thirteen Great Blender Soups you can Make Tonight
Hope:
Pope Begs Journalists To Avoid ‘Sins Of Communication’
Billionaire Owner of Patagonia is Suing Trump Over National Monuments
The Most Comprehensive Plan Proposed to Fight Climate Change
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