The Prairie Citizen

There is spiritual value in thinking about death and talking about it.

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What can we learn from the sport of baseball?

Every day as we drove to and from our cabin, we could see Black Elk Peak.

We talk with Elizabeth about her mother Helen, a good Iowa farm woman.

I was not prepared for the celebration of American ideals embodied in the national monument.

Millions of American schoolchildren have had to memorize that poem because it is universally recognized as an expression of American ideals.

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I always cry at the Lincoln Memorial.

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Memorial Day I thought of my grandpa Nixon, my mother’s father. I called him Pappoo.

Music credit: Patricia Miller

As a child, I learned democracy at church.

We discern truth by testing our ideas to see if they work or not.

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Grandma was curious about the world. She didn’t assume that she knew everything. She was a modest woman.

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I believe a common moral ground exists from which our nation can be repaired.

Moral character is created by struggling against our own weaknesses.

Music: Lullaby for Democracy by Doctor Turtle from http://freemusicarchive.org (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode)

In today's podcast we explore how life on the Great Plains is a school in humility.

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What makes America a special place?

We live in troubling times, don't you think? So, what can we do? In today's podcast we chat about common courtesy.

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