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Going from 'really busy' to 'eating pie' is good for soul

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Time spent without TV, air conditioning or email during my family's annual pilgrimage to the Fountain Park Chautauqua in rural Remington, Ind., always gives me an appreciation for simple things such as family, friends and pie.

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The small town of Remington, Ind., features the historic water tower built by a Batavia company and the small Mini Measures Antiques store, which had the very thing I thought I'd never find.

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Our summers still are hazy, but we lost the lazy. Who saw that coming? Caught up in the suburban trap of always answering “really, really busy" in response to a simple, "How are you?" I spend a vacation week in which my most-demanding task is finding a pair of plastic baby doll arms.

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