Steel Wagstaff
Trying to do good things for good reasons
Tag: family
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Grimethorpe
When I was 19 years old, just after completing my first year at a large university in the American West, I left school to spend two years as a Mormon missionary in the Northeast of England. When I arrived in Britain, I knew little to nothing about the present social or economic conditions of the…
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I’m Getting Married!
Thought I often avoid the personal when writing publicly, I felt too much joy not to share this: Thanks to Sam Crowfoot for taking the photo.
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Mark Nowak
So, among other things, I’m going to start on ongoing series of features on this blog, one of which will be posts about my favorite artists, called, appropriately enough, “My Favorite People Series.” This post is the first in what I hope will be a long line of posts about all kinds of people that I admire…
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To be a Carer
I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about the medical profession, and more broadly, about health. I’m not certain why, particularly since I haven’t been ill lately, and we tend usually to think of health and healers only when our body is not well, when we are in pain, when health eludes us. So I…