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On this Veteran’s day, it gives us great honor to tell you a bit of the story of our friend, Col. Kenneth Reusser. Col. Reusser and his wonderful wife Trudy are among our most beloved and respected clients.

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A friend of ours named Jacose Bell, practices a spending-control habit that surprised even me. Her solution: It’s a simple matter of storage. Jacose keeps one credit card. Where does she keep it, you ask?

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My wife and I recently went to New Mexico on vacation. Sadly, my knowledge of this close corner of the world is lacking, so when she made reservations to stay in an Earth Ship I began to wonder what we were getting into. To my surprise, our few nights in the Earth Ship happened to be the nicest of any accommodations as well as the least expensive. My surprises didn’t stop there.

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The other night I attended the Restorative Listening Project’s event around the film “Northeast Passage”. The event was hosted by John Canda, among others, and gave the diverse audience of inner Northeast Portland residents a chance to explore and dialogue about gentrification.

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Andi came into my office the other day. She had been recommended to us through a member of the Equity Design community. Andi has a dream…

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Outside of Mangua, Nicaragua there is a society of 700 families who live off and in the garbage of the city. There home is quite literally a dump. I always thought that the greatest tragedy in such a place was the lack of food. In truth the real horrors are sexual abuse, drugs and […]

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Something magical and other worldly happened yesterday. If you didn’t know the
context you would think that I was living in a Disney movie or some psychedelic documentary on the seventies.

My family spent much of the day on our front porch, in our front yard or peering out our front picture window. What did we […]

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After three years of work we recently competed our feature film, “Lord Save Us From Your Followers.”

We just completed a one week premier at the Hollywood theater here in our hometown and the response exceeded our expectations. Several of the showing sold out and thousands came out to watch.

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Hilary and I recently experienced the birth of our son Dillon. It was Mother’s Day, precisely, much to the delight of our mothers. Dillon’s arrival date shouldn’t have come as a surprise with so many births in Hilary’s immediate family occurring on holidays (President’s Day, Christmas, Halloween, and Labor Day). Thus, on May 11, 2008 […]

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We have added Brigitte Erickson to our team. With her help, we are expanding our capacity and our ability to consistently serve our community. She is an insane gift. We are very thankful. She comes to us with several years of mortgage experience and a heart of compassion for people and communities. She is excited […]

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Our boys continue to be an adventure.  
Malachi (4 years old in striped shirt) has found his inner artist. He spends hours a day coloring and drawing. He was recently accepted into our local Portland public school Spanish immersion program. Jared get’s to be his tutor, since I have forgotten all my college Spanish.
Hudson […]

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