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A few weeks ago, I blogged about an interview I had with the BBC about Occupy London and Occupy St. Paul’s Cathedral.  Who’d have thought I’d now be blogging about Occupy in my own back yard?! Yes, my own back yard. What began as a protest at and against  Wall Street, has spread globally, and has now appeared at Princeton University.

Photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications

I shouldn’t really be surprised. In recent decades, Princeton has sent large numbers of its graduates to jobs on Wall Street at the big name investment banks. Every fall, these banks make pilgrimages to Princeton to recruit a new cohort, where these coveted jobs are highly sought after by many of Princeton’s brightest engineering, math, computer science, econ, and other majors. According to the most recent graduate survey from Princeton’s Career Services, financial services was the largest full-time employer of Princeton graduates. Continue Reading »

I’ve been trying to think of a fitting Thanksgiving message to post, to help remind us that Thanksgiving it is not about eating turkey or shopping on Black Friday. It’s about being filled with thanks for what we do have, and pausing to give thanks to God as the ultimate provider of everything…

A friend sent me a link to an article from the New York Times titled: A Farmer is Down and People Come Out to Help, and I realized right away that it solved my problem. Please click on the link and read on. I plan to read this at our Thanksgiving table on Thursday.

I close by letting you know one of the major things I’m thankful for this season is special friends like you. My world is nowhere nearly as challenging as farmer Glenn Bolander’s, but thank you for being my community of neighboring farmers and friends…