"Jan Karon" is an American writer and novelist, who has written for both children and adults. Karon was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, in 1937, as Janice Meredith Wilson. She retired from a career in advertising and moved to Blowing Rock, North Carolina, to write. Among her awards are an Book Sense Book of the Year/ABBY Honor award for books in the Mitford series, set in the fictional community of Mitford, North Carolina. She has been designated a lay Canon for the Arts in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy (Illinois) by the Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman, SSC.

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It's totally changing your body chemistry. It's a very healthy thing to do. It is said that 15 minutes of laughter is worth six hours of meditation.

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The longer I'm with this group, the more I see that I have to change the things I do. Our laundry is hanging on the line outside right now. We're composting now. We're consolidating our car trips. You have to start small and go from there.

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This month's meeting is our first major outreach to people outside the group.

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