Chicken Scratch

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When you want to find your way back to giving a flock. Chicken Scratch is a place for realistic optimism and remarkable observations from an ordinary life.

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About Elizabeth Beggins

Chicken Scratch is for realistic optimists, disappointed idealists, and anyone looking to find a way back to goodness.

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