It was the summer of 2012, in a barn, in Cygnet Ohio. Cygnet is one or two exits south of Bowling Green Ohio. It is entirely rural, with a very small “downtown” consisting of a gas station, a pizza place, a bar, and post office. The rest of the town is either farms, homes, or farms with homes on them. The barn I found myself in on this fateful day had recently transferred ownership. I will save the explanation of the odd genealogical chain of events that led me to this s

On my spiritual path, I have learned to value the lives of not only fellow humans, but the lives of all things, great and small. I am sad to say that it wasn’t always that way. There was a time in my life when I considered it justifiable to take the life of things such as bugs, simply because they were a nuisance. Please bear in mind while I tell this story that I have grown spiritually, and no longer feel this way. The experience I’m about to outline should have been for

This story begins in the middle of a large field of sand. It is the middle of summer, and the route 24 project is fully underway. The...