A quiet life: august 2011

"Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own buisness and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before." 1 Thessalonians 4:11

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Thoreau's cabin redux: tiny homes and happiness

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Moslid i Vinje - Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu [ Part two ]

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