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Simplifying Simplicity Part 3

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First I blogged about how Becky and I are defining simplicity these days.  Then, I wrote about the changes we’ve slowly made toward simplicity over the last few years.  Today, the stuff we’re trying out next in an effort to take less so we can give more.

Here’s that list:

No garbage disposal: Compost everything.*

News We Can Use

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Looks like our beloved Post office is now in its new location!  Can we just say Yippee!!!!!!  I really hated that little parking lot it was in.  I hardly ever went to our Post Office because it was so small and it always felt dirty.  (just my opinion)

Bridge Hero Gets Offer: Paid Tuition - New York Times

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Bridge Hero Gets Offer: Paid Tuition - New York Times: Jeremy Hernandez helped 50 kids on the school bus trapped on the fallen Minneapolis bridge last week. He was offered a photo op with President Bush and said "Nope". It'd be hard for me right now to want a picture with ...

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Short bus - Big bus

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Suzie is going on a field trip tomorrow. Back on the short bus to the middle school.

Secrets

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We don't like secrets in the news business, so two stories that have come to my attention this morning, I find disturbing. The first one comes out of neighboring Murfreesboro, where school officials there are holding a meeting today that is closed to the public and the press over allegations of rape that supposedly occurred recently on a school bus...

Less government

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That’s one of the things that some people favor, isn’t it? Less governmental intervention sounds good. But it apparently doesn’t to Rep. Bill Dunn (R- K’ville) because he has proposed a law making it a crime to not call the police if you see a crime happening, especially if it results in bodily injury or death.

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