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Be: Experimental

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Be Experimental by Douglas Tsoi

Change happens suddenly and unexpectedly. In November 2014, I got laid off from a job I loved and wanted to stay at for many years. But life is agnostic to one’s desires. I was curious what would happen if I didn’t immediately look for another job. When a fire destroys centuries of old growth forest, new life, diverse and fragile, begins to emerge. Those seeds, having lain dormant for years, CONTINUE READING

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Kim Nemeth

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When Kim Nemeth signed up to be an AmeriCorps member and move to Walla Walla, Washington after graduating from The College of Wooster she had no idea that it would eventually lead to her starting her own weaving business. Fast forward ten years later and she would make the leap to create Woven (by Hand), a small artisan business focused on “handwoven wearables using traditional patterns, but with a focus on textures and color … CONTINUE READING

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Karen Clark Cole

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Karen Clark Cole is one of those people who you meet and wonder, “Has she found extra hours in the day?!” She’s someone who you want to shadow and figure out how she manages to run two companies and still have time for a personal life. Well, it is because she makes the time to do both and has made the conscious effort to live a life where she is present and living in the … CONTINUE READING

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Be: Open

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Be Open by Kory DeAngelo

Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. – Albert Einstein

I’ve always been curious and love to learn and acquire new knowledge. Early on, I would relish in collecting new information and try to piece it all together into a wonderfully cohesive picture. In my twenties, I thought that the more knowledge I acquired … CONTINUE READING

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