I am writing this post a good week after we completed what I have been referring to as The Incredible Journey. I needed this separation in order to process and in order to think upon this experience with some degree of fondness. Let me explain... Two friends of our community from Kansas City - Josh and Alyssa Smith - invited us to join...

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A Thoreau-like a critic of the hurried and cluttered life, Mansfield observes, "We have 'housing' without dwellings. We have Home Depot, but not home. This lost quality of dwelling--the soul of buildings--haunts most of our houses and our landscape." Mansfield opens his book with a thought-provoking description of what it's like to house hunt. "I liked house hunting," he writes. "I am fascinated...

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