My soap making journey began in one of the darkest times of my life. Life was like a charred debris field, the fiery consequence of domestic violence. What did I have to offer when all that remained of my life was ashes and rubble? There is nothing left, right? Wrong. Did you know homesteaders of old used ashes to make…
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Failure. Nobody wants it. In other words, we pretend it does not exist. Social media makes matters worse. We fill our feeds with the best view of our lives, for instance. Meanwhile, finding hope in failure becomes hard. Further, culture rewards success. Awards go to the best in the class, the most successful employee, and the first to finish the…
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Isn’t there more to life than this? This question taunts you. You feel it with the day-in-day-out tedium. If that is not mundane enough then you see one headline after another. They read: DOOM” DESPAIR” DISASTER!” You turn to social media. The weight of what you see crushes your spirit. You want to find hope. Instead, you see political rancor,…
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