We’ve been milking this sweet young goat for nearly two months now and I have hardly written anything about her. There’s a reason for this. The learning curve is steep and round. Annie is new to milking, and so are we. Here’s how it has been: First thing in Lulahs’ morning, she and I load…
“You cannot step in the same river once.” ~ Chuang Tzu (maybe) The weather has changed again. After so many days of the children running outside barefoot, talking about Spring. After a roof and walls went up on the outbuilding so large I think we could almost move into it. After surveying the damage of…
“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…