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For close to 40 years home schoolers have enjoyed a simple communication process between themselves and their Education Service District. Our legal obligation has been to notify the ESD of our intent to home school and provide them with three essential pieces of information: · Your child’s and your name along with your address. · Your child’s birth date….
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Living Memento Mori: A Summary
Hello readers! Last January I began writing a series of reflections, 15 in all, on what it means or might look like to live Memento Mori in the context of the stations of the cross. I’ve summarized the takeaways from each of my reflections below. Each one is clickable and will take you to the post…
