it’s about time

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…

to make peace

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…

small things

Some things are so small, we will never lay eyes on them, and they can change our lives in an instant (bacteria, atoms, for instance).  Other things are so large that they are invisible, and they change our lives every day whether we think of them or not (the galaxy, and love).  Often, these two…