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Tag: covid-19

Gardens Do a Lot

May 21, 2020 Matt Sparks

Cities can be sprawling food forests, with healthy, tasty meals growing everywhere we look. Go plant something today.

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Posted in: Essays, Lessons Learned Filed under: COVID, covid-19, food, food forest, garden, gardening, health, pandemic, permaculture, quarantine, recession, sustainability

Adventure No Matter What

May 17, 2020 Matt Sparks

Feeling quarantine cabin fever? No problem! With the right mindset, we can make adventure happen anytime, anywhere.

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Posted in: Essays Filed under: adventure, backcountry, cabin fever, camping, COVID, covid-19, cynicism, jaded, jim carrey, life path, passion, philosophy, quarantine, road trips, spirituality, stories, storytelling, travel, up pixar film, yes man film

Alternate Universe Warnings

May 16, 2020 Matt Sparks

Things not going well? Maybe they actually are but we just can’t see it yet.

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Posted in: Essays Filed under: COVID, covid-19, education, eLearning, entrepreneurship, life path, pandemic, philosophy, spirituality, stories, storytelling, video games, XR

Alternatives to Duh

May 15, 2020 Matt Sparks

Of course the world is responding poorly to the pandemic. Why would we expect anything different? A shift in perspective can help.

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Posted in: Lessons Learned Filed under: climate change, COVID, covid-19, focus, optimism, pessimism, philosophy

The Rental Crisis Pipeline

May 9, 2020 Matt Sparks

When there’s an economic crash impacting renters and rental demand, it often takes several months before rents decrease significantly. The…

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Posted in: Essays Filed under: COVID, covid-19, depression, economics, housing, investment, pandemic, quarantine, real estate, recession

The Parable of the Giant Egg

April 10, 2020 Matt Sparks

Once there was a farmer who went out to the yard to collect eggs from her chickens, as she did every day. But on this day, she found a giant egg in her yard…

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Posted in: Essays Filed under: covid-19, ethics, parable, personal story, philosophy, quarantine, spirituality

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