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(Letters From Kalien)

We have now lived a rather isolated and contrarian life in the mountains for one month. The stories are plentiful and some are painfully funny.…

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A Tribute to my Friend and Mentor Billy Ray Hearn

Billy Ray Hearn, a friend and mentor to me, died yesterday. He was 85 and fully alive until his death. I told him once (as…

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Goodbye World, Hello Kalien

On a cloudless Monday morning August 12, 2002, while at a staff retreat, on a run through the woods in the mountains near Paint Rock,…

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Why Fundamentalist Religion Did Not Work For Me (Letters from Kalien)

During my earliest years while sitting in church, starting when I was about seventeen, my mind would wander to the peopleI had begun reading about…

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Randy, You’re Not In Nashville Anymore (Letters from Kalien)

Long gone are the people endlessly checking their cellphone for messages—living life chained to digital devices— and looking over the shoulder to see if the…

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The Epiphany (Letters from Kalien)

I watched as the old farmer and young boy tussled with the chain at the fence. The huge John Deere green tractor completely blocking the…



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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Letters from Kalien)

I watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream Of warm impermanence So the days float through my eyes But still the…



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Walking The Perimeter (Letters from Kalien)

Gina and I spent the better part of a day last week walking the perimeter of our new farm. We have decided to call it…



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To Chew or Not to Chew (Letters from Kalien)

Warning: These letters are unexpurgated. Sometimes a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. I heard that a lot growing up in the Appalachians.…



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