One step closer to nature

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly."
- Richard Bach

Follow along in our journeys, relive our pasts that brought us this far, and watch as we grow into our futures and discover what Requiem Ranch holds for each of our bloggers.

Matthew Riezarf

Feb 2, 2018
5 min

Why a Guild?

My freshman year of college, I was singled out during macroeconomics class by the professor and asked, "what do you believe in?" He did this in the context t...

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Matthew Riezarf

Jan 14, 2018
3 min

Our Gifts

What is your true purpose? Only you can ultimately answer this question. Nobody knows better than you who you are, where you've been, or what feels important...

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Matthew Riezarf

Nov 21, 2017
6 min

More than just Honesty

The term transparency gets thrown around a lot. Governments are claiming to be transparent in their dealings. There are calls for more transparency all the t...

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requiemkenya

Oct 23, 2017
2 min

Requiem Kenya, touching and improving lives of the poor and impoverished people through empowerment.

#RequiemKenya is a sister organisation of #RequiemTexas and it was started on the basis of bringing back the lost and diminishing cultural methods of doing t...

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Matthew Riezarf

Oct 23, 2017
4 min

Let us mesh together

When I started installing wireless lighting control systems, I was introduced to a compelling invention: the mesh network. Don't google search it until after...

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Matthew Riezarf

Oct 14, 2017
3 min

Cooperate not Compete pt3 Pitfalls

Cooperation can fail. It can collapse in on itself, sometimes faster than a purely competitive social environment. We have been taught this a few times now a...

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Matthew Frazier

Oct 3, 2017
2 min

Cooperate not Compete, pt.1

Capitalism, america's bread and butter, competitive markets, survival of the fittest. These were ideas I grew up believing were the reasons why america had ...

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Matthew Frazier

Oct 1, 2017
3 min

Problems are Populating

Once you start diving into this issue of environmentalism or sustainability, or maybe just turning the occasional ear towards it, you will get hit with this ...

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Matthew Frazier

Sep 28, 2017
2 min

The Sustainable Concept

Sustainability. It's the new buzz word. I remember when it was just "organic". Organic was healthy, all natural and no chemicals. Organic was also expensive ...

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Robin "EvilKitty"

Sep 23, 2017
2 min

What is Requiem?

Throughout my life I have been confronted by people with my choice of seeking "requiem." "Why do you seek death?" they ask. The Catholics have the Requiem M...

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