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🗞️ Plant the Tree – September 2026 in Review (opens the original)
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🙏 Everything Except the Answer (opens the original)
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September’s theme is Plant the Tree. This week’s topic is The Other End. In high school, I took a television I couldn’t fix to my electronics teacher and asked for help. He told me to fix it myself. It took me most of a year, and I was a lot older before I understood what he’d done.“It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.” —Søren Kierkegaard.
📢 Star Trek at 60: The Society of Tomorrow (opens the original)
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🙏 Grew More Than Expected (opens the original)
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September’s theme is Plant the Tree. You put something in the ground for somebody you’ll never meet. This week’s topic is In Its Own Time. I grew up under a maple my parents planted when I was about six. The family next door planted one around the same time, and theirs did better. But ours did the job.“He that plants Trees, loves others besides himself.” —Thomas Fuller. Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs, 1732.<
🙏 Meant for Someone Else (opens the original)
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This week’s topic is The Anonymous Gift, which fulfills the promise I made in print last Sunday and addresses the theme of Plant the Tree—what you do for people you'll never meet. Someone left breakfast outside our hotel room one morning when we really needed the lift, and we never found out who it was.“One who gives charity to the poor without knowing to whom he gave and without the poor person knowing from whom he received.&
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