“Change can change back. (We can go from conservative to liberal, from disciplined to undisciplined…) Change is volatile. Transformation is completely different – though sometimes it is called change. Transformation never makes the past wrong. It transforms it. It doesn’t deny it. It honors it in a way that you can move forward without making anything wrong,…
If you’re running short on trouble… If you’re life has too little drama… If you’re lonely… Or just have too many rose bushes and honeysuckle vines… get yourself a goat. I feel silly gloating over our two little goats when our fellow radicals have milk cows and triple digits of lambs on the ground, but…
“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….