That was fun in the sun and an incredible time of collaborating with brilliant change agents and social entrepreneurs.

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Fun in the sun!

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It's fun being out, playing in the dirt and in the sun and watching stuff grow.

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Three years ago, guest writer Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times did a fun piece for Forbes.com on heroes and goats in the baseball world.

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But California is starting to look more like New England than the fun-and-sun version of itself many of us keep in our memories, said Hans Johnson, a demographer at the Public Policy Institute of California.

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