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Today I met a nice lady that lives up the street. She asked me if I knew the previous owners of her home. A young woman had come to a yard sale while visiting from California. Once a child here, parents now gone. Could she come in she wondered? I smiled. I had known them well. She was looking fo...
09/23/2010
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If you follow my posts at all you know I'm bullish about the local art and artists here in my little northwest Arkansas hillside haven. Join me in celebrating our local art and artists. We have galleries to delight most every art collector whether a novice or a studied patron. Get comfy in your...
09/21/2010
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Assertive. What do think of the word? Websters tells me it means: confidently aggressive or self assured; forceful: dogmatic. In a perfect world we would speak once and be heard. We would ask once and be answered. In a perfect world your fr...
09/19/2010
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Please take a moment and reflect on the goodness all around you. Acknowledge those you love and all the blessings you enjoy. Today. Not tomorrow because for some tomorrow may not afford the opportunity. I'm generally not in favor of straying too far afield on A.R. I realize th...
09/18/2010
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It is such a sad time in our history that we recall today. Comments have been made about the two days in our history we will not forget. May I share? In my world on the morning of 9/11 I was on my way to a Board meeting for a local non profit. I ...
09/11/2010
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Today was a great day. Not outstanding, but great. I didn't close a big deal, win the Nobel Prize or the Lotto. It turns out that great days are often comprised mainly of small things that matter not to most of the world. I met a new real estate prospect at the coffee shop, I celebrated a fr...
09/07/2010
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Carroll County, Arkansas is a quiet place. I may have mentioned that. Recently I gained a new perspective on just how quiet it is. Comprised of 630 square miles, with 6.5 of those square miles covered with water. Carroll County is indeed sparsely ...
09/06/2010
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Just in case you haven't been in the countryside in a while... I give you this chance to pause and enjoy a scene from Boxley Valley in rural northwest Arkansas. We enjoy MILLIONS of undeveloped acres in this part of the world, yes MILLIONS of green undisturbed acres. The eighty mile drive throu...
09/02/2010
Georgia O'Keefe and Winslow Homer along with other world famous artists are on their way to Arkansas. Well sort of. With the opening (likely in 2011 or 2012) of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art northwest Arkansas will become home to what is expected to be one of the most extensive collectio...
08/29/2010
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I'm on a little roll here about notable Arkansans. I got all giddy over reading about President Obama and his Arkansas roots and started a long list in my mind of famous Arkansans. Check out the link below, you WILL be amazed. Just for starters did you know that Helen Gurley Brown was born in C...
08/24/2010