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The Clarkfield American Legion & Auxiliary will have a potluck supper at 6pm at the Clarkfield City Hall on Wed. Dec.

If you’re reading this, unfortunate news: by the time this paper goes to print, our community artist-in-residence Leah Cook will have left Granite Falls. The upside is that since her goodbye party will already have happened at the Rock on Tuesday, I can safely share that we gave her a whole bunch of sock puppets as a going-away present (unless, of course, I forgot them at home – always a possibility).

Yesterday I was “supervising” some work in the basement – keeping my friend company who was trying to figure out a water drainage issue. I don’t hang on to a lot of things but since I started writing in journals six years ago, I’ve kept all of them in a bookshelf.

Peace. Peace is something sought after by nations, by leaders, by followers, by almost everyone. If you Google just videos of “how to find peace,” you will find over 97 million results, and on Bing you will find almost 10 billion results. Results that talk about the process of meditation, what to give up, things you should start doing, things you should stop doing, the list goes on and on.