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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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The Tunnel
I have been trying to write to you for weeks but every time I reread the words I wrote they seem unhelpful, foreign even. Written by a sad person. But here you are – a bunch of unrelated beginnings: I don’t know which days I wrote them: Do you feel like you have been living…
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I need to tell you
That our poor old Tane died earlier this week. I am so sad for us and so glad/sad for his release. He was a good old fellow- I know that in the larger scheme of things and especially at the time of global stress and anxiety and illness, and death, losing a pet pig is…
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WE HAVE FLOUR
Saturday morning – I simply do not understand why there is a run on flour – it started way before the Shelter at Home order. Are all these people baking? They must be I suppose. But how does a big company like Bob’s Mill who say they mill local wheat – how do they run…
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I NEED A DRINK
Well you know the rules! Once I have written the hearing I can’t change it. Here is a not-clever chicken, stuck in the porch railings. The two dogs looked on in bemusement. Not sure whether to run for help or give it a good shove. Yet we keep raising them! Everyone was out in the…
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