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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p><i>“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood, and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”&nbsp;</i>~Antoine De Saint-Exupery</p><p>The…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7623655/amplifying-hope-week-34">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>Where are you finding comfort these days? Amidst the many reasons to despair, I hope you’re working to affect change <u>and</u> doing nice things for yourself.&nbsp;</p><p>Paul McCartney was inspired to write “Let It Be” after his mother…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7620982/amplifying-hope-week-33">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>Which songs capture your anger, your grief, and your hope? In the 1960's, Bob Dylan's anti-war songs and civil rights anthems spoke to his generation. Who's writing the songs we need now?&nbsp;</p><p><i>“Yes, and how many years must</i>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7620981/amplifying-hope-week-32">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p><i>“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.”&nbsp;</i>~Sarah J. Maas</p><p>Almost everyone I know is working hard to balance fear and hope. As unimaginable headlines roll in, the ground seems to crumble a bit more. I resolve…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7620980/amplifying-hope-week-31">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p><i>"Life shrinks or expands proportional to one’s courage.“</i>&nbsp; ~Anais Nin&nbsp;</p><p>When have you felt most courageous? How have you found resilience in the wilderness?</p><p>“Courage Walks Alongside” - video from a Zoom concert in 2021 with Ryan Dugan…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7620979/amplifying-hope-week-30">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>Hats off to all you gardeners, farmers, and farmworkers! You keep us nourished, fed, and surrounded by beauty. Thank you.</p><p><i>"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle</i>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7620978/amplifying-hope-week-29">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>In the wake of the terrible Texas flooding last weekend, did you also keep checking the news with dread? Did you watch the death count rise with horror? How do we make our way forward in a world…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7605348/amplifying-hope-week-28">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>What's keeping you going these days? Gathering hope for these emails helps bolster me, and I love hearing that many of you find them meaningful too. Thanks so much for your feedback. Onward together! &nbsp;</p><p>As I pondered the…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7604969/amplifying-hope-week-27">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>Paul Simon’s “American Tune” has never resonated more.&nbsp;Released in November 1973, the song is filled with the disillusionment and melancholy of the Vietnam War and Watergate era. Simon said,&nbsp;“<i>I don't write overtly political songs, although</i>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7604967/amplifying-hope-week-26">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>I know what you're thinking: I'd love to hear a kids’ song about saving the bees right about now. And could it be in the key of B? I aim to please…</p><a href="https://youtu.be/_tMyIkR3Te4" target="_blank"></a><p><a href="https://youtu.be/_tMyIkR3Te4" target="_blank">Video link</a></p><p><i>“To bee or not</i>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7595109/amplifying-hope-week-25">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,&nbsp;</p><p>Here's the brand new “Be the Reason” official video full of hope-filled and poignant images! I loved filming my parts in favorite locations -- the Oregon coast, InterUrban ArtHouse, and my backyard. I hope you enjoy it!</p><a href="https://youtu.be/HjvdaIk0scU" target="_blank"></a><p><a href="https://youtu.be/HjvdaIk0scU" target="_blank">Video</a>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7595107/amplifying-hope-week-24-d454a59c-a0ac-43c7-8914-07a85add5995">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p><i>“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”</i> ~Dolly Parton</p><p>Trees are the ultimate symbol of resilience as they brave changing seasons and unpredictable weather. Facing our own adversity, uncertainty, and sorrow, how deep are our roots?</p><p>“Plant Me a…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7591504/amplifying-hope-week-23">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>I’d been out of the studio since 2023, but I jumped back in after the debut of “Be the Reason” at Green Guitar Folk House in January. Only five days into the new administration, I needed a way…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7591503/amplifying-hope-week-22">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>Decaying stumps and felled trees dot the trail. Signs of death live alongside vibrant, unfurling ferns in this dense Oregon forest. And so go our lives. Amazing nurse logs <a href="https://www.americanforests.org/article/nurse-logs-healers-of-the-forest/" target="_blank">(<u>learn more</u></a><a href="https://www.americanforests.org/article/nurse-logs-healers-of-the-forest/)">)</a> and fellow travelers remind us…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7591501/amplifying-hope-week-21">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>Joy comes fairly easily to me. (If I had a nickel for every time someone told me I was aptly named, I could fund a campaign or save a gaggle of sea turtles.) But being content is another…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7591491/amplifying-hope-week-20">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p>How do you manage anger? Years ago, I happened upon a strategy while helping a family member clear out a flooded basement. I spotted a sledgehammer near a ruined piece of furniture…and voila! That trusty sledgehammer helped me…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7591489/amplifying-hope-week-19">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p><i>Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.”</i> ~Jane Goodall</p><p>While recovering from a brain hemorrhage fifteen years ago, I determined to be more…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7591488/amplifying-hope-week-18">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p><i>“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”</i>&nbsp;~Leonardo da Vinci</p><p>I’ve attended many a rally, but speaking and playing music at yesterday’s Free State Days Rally here in Kansas was a new experience. I was nervous and resolute…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7591485/amplifying-hope-week-17">Read more</a></span></div>
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          <div class="message"><p>Dear Friends,</p><p><i>“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels ending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”</i> ~Victor Hugo<i>&nbsp;</i></p><p>I’m officially in love with songbirds. They sing tenaciously before…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/weekly-hope-filled-collections/blog/7589485/amplifying-hope-week-16">Read more</a></span></div>
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