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Arba Zeri Campbell and the Telephone

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Brian H. Gill

One thing I like about families — the one(s) I’m in, at any rate — are the legacies. In my dialect of English a “legacy” is generally money or property handed down from one generation to another. Legacies of that … Continue reading →

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A Mural, America, Changes, and Doing Our Job

Posted on July 19, 2025 by Brian H. Gill

Things keep changing. That’s hardly a new idea. “Everything changes and nothing stands still” (“πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει”, quoted by Plato in “Cratylus” )(Heraclitus, Wikiquote) I’ll be talking about the new mural in my town’s Walmart, how this isn’t … Continue reading →

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Remembering a Favorite Fourth, Looking Ahead

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Brian H. Gill

Many towns here in central Minnesota host fireworks displays on Independence Day, but not Sauk Centre. Fireworks and Family It’s not that the town disapproves of the Fourth of July, or fireworks, or loud noises: our big-deal midsummer celebration is … Continue reading →

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A Vacation, Rain, Comic Books, and a Waterlogged Dad

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Brian H. Gill

I’ll have my oldest daughter tell most of this ‘family story’. That’s partly because this is shaping up to be a distracted week. The family was on one of our rare vacations. Our third-oldest daughter was old enough to remember … Continue reading →

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What a Weekend!

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Brian H. Gill

First it was storms, now (I’m writing this Sunday evening) sincerely noticeable heat. And I see there’s a tornado watch on, northwest of us. Something I learned from that KSTP article — the “Eagle’s Healing Nest” is a metaphoric name, … Continue reading →

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