This is Progress
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
- 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
- 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 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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Owen Dargatz
- Apr 1, 2021
- 4 min
Why we're moving our family to Guatemala
The first day Christina and I met, she was in the middle of selling everything she owned to raise money to go volunteer at an orphanage...
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