More Than A Feilding

More Than A Feilding

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no place in the world is so nice that you can't make it nicer

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David Slack
Jul 19, 2025
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If the only line Joni Mitchell had ever written was about paving paradise and putting up a parking lot, she'd have left words for the ages.

How do you change and grow a place without ruining it? Sometimes resisting will be the right thing to do. Sometimes it will be merely fear dressed up as preservation.

The city I live in could do with many more homes, …

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