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Turkey Journey
On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge our dependence. William Jennings Bryan This morning started early. Too early if you ask me. Up well before sunrise we started the truck and headed east towards Leetonia, Ohio. It’s nearly an hour drive to the Village; a course that threads through the winding back roads of Ohio’s countryside. Most…
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Revival of the Spirit
I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright…I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live – that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life. Dan Millman I’ve been…
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Awareness of the Simple
There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas. Miyamoto Musashi There are so many things we take for granted. Truths we just accept. But when somebody speaks the truth of why we take that for granted we are enlightened. Our mind opens in a sort of…
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Seasons of Overwhelm
We started off this last summer growing season strong. I started a ton of seeds starting in March and had high hopes and lofty goals for the garden. In addition to the already established raised beds, we planted a huge field of corn, beans and squash and although I was convinced it would not grow,…
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Fair & Farm Play
I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature. Friedrich Nietzsche There is never enough time. That’s a sentiment we both lament to each other time and time again. Seemingly more so in the last few weeks as we watched summer vanish into fall. Time. Time to pick the last…
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It’s Sickening
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Soren Kierkegaard Apologies in advance, but today’s post is a rant post. We’ll aim for a happy ending though, I promise. Earlier this week we had a lovely dinner at home.…
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Play
We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist. Richard Louv – Last Child in the Woods I…
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Beauty is its Own Reward
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for Being. Ralph Waldo Emerson – excerpt from The Rhodora “Is all this work on the farm worth the effort?” Jackson asked me over the weekend. I think he saw…
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Fresh on the Farm Stand
We’re finally seeing the fruits of our labor hit the farm stand! Our little part of Northeast Ohio has experienced an extended drought for the first half of summer and as a result our agricultural production is approximately three- to four-weeks behind schedule. But this week we’ve harvested enough to share the wealth! Here’s whats…
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Relief in Sight?
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. A. A. Milne If pokeweed was a desirable crop we’d be rich. We must have pulled a hundred pounds of it alone over the weekend. Add in the velevetleaf, prickly lettuce, clover, yellow woodsorrel, dandelions, hairy crabgrass, and the veritable carpet of ground ivy that…