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February
Farming is a lot about paying attention. Before I became a farmer, I was another urban dweller. I would drive through the countryside on the interstate, and sometimes I would see farmers in the fields, unmoving so it seemed, as if they were put there, a prop in some pre-constructed rural scene. I did get [...]
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February
Some people believe in a God, and some do not. It comes down to feelings. Many of us will sit to watch the sun redden against the red of barn and green-gold of evening summer pasture grass. We will walk along a white sand beach grayed by gentle rain and quieted by the lapping of [...]
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July
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 [...]
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
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 [...]