We live almost at the end of a very rural road. People drive through a mile of deep woods and over six small creek crossings before coming to our house, if they even notice our house for all the trees. I’ve been contemplating what it means to me to live on this road, and have…
Cleaning up a pile of papers by my side of the desk, I ran into this jewel of a story, which I transcribed from the mouth of my then four year old daughter: “So, this Unicorn has born before everything else, even before Hansel and Gretel, a long long time ago. She didn’t even need…
It’s about time to dig those sweet potatoes. Jewels waiting to be found under the soil. It’s about time to throw a Biodynamic Conference. It’s about time to mow down the rank growth of Summer, and feed it to the Fall. It’s about time to sow cover crops. They need time to grow while the…
“So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? “ ~Wendell Berry, from “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” Interestingly enough, I heard Wendell Berry…
It is next to impossible in the middle of the night, when the sound of my family’s sweet sleeping fills my heart, to make peace with the senseless violence, the greed, and random tragedy of the world. These specters haunt my warm bed and torment my sleepy thoughts into a frenzy. I cannot protect those…
As the season winds down, we start getting bookish around here. Even though the to-do list is still too long, I see school buses out on the roads and start thinking that we ought to do our own version of that. That. That school-thing. I know I wrote a piece, sometime last year, about homeschooling/unschooling….
There is a teaching I received from Gary, my yoga teacher. He credits it to the Kabbalah. It’s been on my mind lately. Here it is, roughly, from my old notes: Let your body be a throne for your mind. Let your mind be a throne for your heart. Let your heart be throne for…