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Success is in the eye of the beholder. One of the most enriching things about this last year of working with our new Guatemala community...
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Owen Dargatz
- Feb 20
- 4 min
Me and my boy
A few days ago, I wrote about my eldest's son Simon's twelfth birthday in The Daily Scroll. It's easy to be a dad. In fact, for many men,...
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Owen Dargatz
- Dec 6, 2021
- 5 min
Three lefts make a right.
Each wrong turn we took led us closer to where we were meant to be all along. We met another young family with a small boy named Damian...
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Owen Dargatz
- Sep 10, 2021
- 4 min
My ongoing love affair
Fifteen years ago, I met a woman that I instantly became best friends with. We sat in her car talking about our lives, families,...
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Owen Dargatz
- Aug 13, 2021
- 3 min
In my life, I love you more.
As a storyteller, I have always preferred music that contained meaningful wording. I like lyrics that transport me to places off the...
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Owen Dargatz
- Aug 9, 2021
- 3 min
Hope is with us.
We are certain of something we currently cannot see. As we pick up little pieces of trash from the beach with a small group of kids, the...
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Owen Dargatz
- Jul 30, 2021
- 4 min
Poverty, pollution's mother.
There's a shift that happens in one's way of thinking with travel. It's why we've been ok pulling our kids out of school, homeschooling,...
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Owen Dargatz
- Jul 19, 2021
- 6 min
Insight on the children
Six weeks in Guatemala after a big move and lots of change. I want to zero in on each of the kids, look at the challenges they are facing...
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Owen Dargatz
- Jul 15, 2021
- 4 min
What the heck are we doing!!?
We are so excited about what is happening. Just five short weeks ago, we were getting on a plane and in shock that it was happening....
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Owen Dargatz
- Jun 27, 2021
- 4 min
There are adjustments when moving with five children to Guatemala.
Ouuuulala! It's been a month here in Guatemala, and I have been ITCHING to have the time, health, space, and mental capacity to write...
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Owen Dargatz
- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
72 HOURS IN GUATEMALA
It’s hard to find a starting point for this section of our family story. There is a lot of great material I am behind on in communicating...
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Owen Dargatz
- May 18, 2021
- 5 min
Home is not a place
One step at a time. It's easy to get ahead of myself when there is so much to get done. Over and over again, I forget to simply focus on...
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Owen Dargatz
- May 4, 2021
- 3 min
Surrender
When asking friends what their preferred way out of this life would be, the answer is almost always "dying in my sleep." While there are...
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Owen Dargatz
- Apr 27, 2021
- 7 min
Giving Experiment #1
The Giving Experiment is our attempt as a family to create positive ripples. In past posts, I've admitted that we have no idea what we're...
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Owen Dargatz
- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
Happiness is hard, but hard is okay.
Everybody knows that the key to happiness is gratefulness. How to be happy isn't the question. The question is how to practice...
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Owen Dargatz
- Apr 14, 2021
- 2 min
It never hurts to ask.
A couple years ago I ran out onto the run way of the Nelson airport and stopped a small plane that was doing approach and landing...
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Owen Dargatz
- Apr 13, 2021
- 7 min
Constant rowing keeps the boat going
Achieving goals doesn't just happen. 35 years have gone by, and I'm still not the fireman I said I would be back before kindergarten! The...
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