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Simple: The Path Back to the Land

Simple: The Path Back to the Land

One cowboy’s journey to restore what’s been lost.

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For a girl who once was.

The Journey of a Lifetime

High in the heavens, the chemistry of our world and life combine—racing around and slamming into each other, forming images, reflections, chaos, peace, and destruction.

Chemicals and inertia combine to create our life as we understand it, as we perceive it, and as we live it…

A Prayer from the Beginning

On Halloween 2010, I walked into my living room in Austin, Texas.

See, I truly am just a little kid from Canyon, Texas, with no formal education. I grew up in agricultural poverty, and so did my best friend and wife. She, too, is just a little kid from Canyon, Texas.

I was contracted out by several big tech companies, and we had just relocated back to Austin from the dirt roads of West Texas and the southeast part of New Mexico—a place I like to call the “Deadlands.”

The person standing across from me that night was not that little kid from Canyon, Texas. That moment in time, that angle of view I was witnessing on Halloween 2010...

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