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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...

Owen Dargatz
Aug 8, 20224 min read
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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,...

Owen Dargatz
Feb 20, 20224 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
Dec 6, 20215 min read
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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,...

Owen Dargatz
Sep 10, 20214 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
Aug 13, 20213 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
Aug 9, 20213 min read
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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,...

Owen Dargatz
Jul 30, 20214 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
Jul 19, 20216 min read
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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....

Owen Dargatz
Jul 15, 20214 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
Jun 27, 20214 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
May 28, 20214 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
May 18, 20215 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
May 5, 20213 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
Apr 27, 20217 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
Apr 21, 20212 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
Apr 14, 20212 min read
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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...

Owen Dargatz
Apr 13, 20217 min read
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