Paul Wesslund

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It’s a free country. What does that mean exactly?

Reading Time: 3 minutes I supplemented my college education this week with a lesson about part of what makes this a uniquely free country. The phrase “Free country” gets used in ways that mean a lot of different things. What I realized this week is how it’s more than a slogan. A free country is real, specific, and rare

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The power of labels

Reading Time: 2 minutes How would you label yourself? You get one word. OK, give yourself a two or three-word phrase. Is that fair? Accurate? Would it tell someone who you are? Red Sox fan? Farmer? Retired? Liberal? And what would the person seeing that label conclude? Might it be filtered through their biases? I’m working on a writing

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