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Home on the Range

The title for this inspirational piece is not really my creation.   Most of us know a song by that name.   It was a song I learned at an early age.   It is a western song, but that is about all I knew about it.   With a bit of research, I learned that the words of the song are part of a poem written in the 1870s by a Kansan physician, Dr. Brewster M. Higley.   It came to be a song in the 1940s and quickly became very well known.   I ran across the phrase, home on the range, as I was reading an article.   Home on the range was only part of the title of the article.   The full title reads: “Benedictine nuns make their home on the range.”   I was really intrigued by it and wanted to delve into the article itself.   I was not disappointed. The first sentence of the article sets the context.   “Sr. Maria Walburga Schortemeyer is at home wading through the mud and manure of a barnyard in boots, work pants, a fleece jacket and h...