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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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The Farm – The Travel and Superpowers
The farmy is still cloaked in its sleepy late winter weeds. As an entity it will toddle along like this – in a kind of slow moving hibernation until I get back from my ‘Spring into Autumn Progress ‘24’. (This years trip name), late May Then when I get back I will bring in piglets,…
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I have a jacket
I have a farm jacket. It is labeled XL. So it is a big warm farm jacket. Bigger than me. It hangs to my knees – more of a coat than a jacket. It is so large I can wear my wooly jersey underneath and still bend my arms. In fact it is so large…
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Does your family read your blog?
Me neither. I could write all kinds of shit on here and they would not know. In fact, this is a test! Testing! Waving my arms. Are you there family? So, I was with my friend and we were cleaning up, making sure that there was no rubbish or trash on the ground. Just general…
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We are All from Different Worlds
We long to understand each other and connect with each other. We do. But. We all come to everything from different backgrounds. Different interpretations. Different expectations. Different paths with different feet. We even experience the same things differently. We even interpret words differently. This is what makes us human. This is the human condition. What…
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FreeBee goes WalkAbout
I think I had an upgrade. When yesterday I was forced to delete the Jetpack app and reload it, then search everywhere for the password and all those annoying things when all I want to do is write, the reloading brought an upgrade with it. It is faster. Clearer. Lots more instruction. More intuitive. More…
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Our scary reliance on Internet Connections
We are scarily reliant on these connections, on connectivity. The other day my car and my phone stopped connecting and it is just SO convenient to have my map on the little screen in my car. It still annoys me. Losing that connection. I’m not gonna say I am dependent on social media because it’s…
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