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

I'm Elizabeth Beggins. Chicken Scratch is a place for realistic optimists, or disappointed idealists. Come on in and poke around. You'll find goodness here.

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