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October

Farm Theology I: The Land Presence

Some people believe in God, and some do not.  I believe that it comes down to feelings.  I know people possessing great sensitivity to the aesthetics of the world around them. These people will sit to watch the sun redden against the red of barn and green-gold of evening summer pasture grass.  They will walk [...]

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July

A Religion of the Land

A Religion of the Land Farming is a lot about watching.  Before I became a farmer, I was another urban person, and I would drive through the countryside on the interstate, and in a flash of a moment I would see farmers in the fields, unmoving, as if they were put there, another prop in [...]

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December

Snowflakes

Watch with me the snowflakes fall and don’t go far but stand beside me in my warmth and I in yours too (what are these bodies anyway but beginnings) Watch the snowflakes me and you while they fill the world and always filling worlds while we think about how worlds might be and how might [...]

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December

Winter, Freedom, Religion

I. Winter Feng shui: now that’s a concept we’ve all perhaps heard about recently. I hear that people will try to create the right feng shui, or spiritual mood perhaps, in the rooms of their homes by rearranging, adding, eliminating various objects in the room, painting the room different colors, etc. It seems a fine [...]

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November

Psalm of Seduction

.her bare belly cups the moonlight quietly flowing down .resting there after the leap across space, curling now like a kitten .above the warm brown skin rising and falling in procession, .like gentle rain on a spring day the damp earthscent everywhere …while whispers so gently the warm summery wind through the light curtains, .the [...]

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