Tag: life
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Give it a Rest. Reach Out.
The animosity. The pettiness. The tiny-mind mean-spiritedness. The shyness. The dark self talk. The busyness of business. Give it a rest. All that thinking. Stop it. Heads Up. Reach out to your people. Take a deep breath and jump into a conversation. Two people I knew not too well have died. We liked each other.…
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Put your Life Jacket On First
It is hard to write a farm lifestyle blog without the life bit getting in the way sometimes. And as you know I try to keep family business private. Especially if it is not my business. So please forgive me my absences. Let me just say. Don’t be mean spirited. A person is a multi…
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Learning that Spans a Lifetime
One of the greatest flaws in humankind is the inability to concede that there will be no resolution. That we might not bring all our plans to fruition. That we are not actually in charge. We know this intellectually. But we don’t want to know this. We prefer not to acknowledge that at any moment…
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New Turns no Twists, yet.
Well, if you know me at all you will know that I can sometimes spin on a dime and change direction in a second. Living close to me can give a person whiplash. But life is like that, we keep moving and evolving and devolving and exploring and sometimes disappearing completely, only to reappear a…
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Happy New Year Everyone
If I get back to the farm after a days work at the mill – – in time to see the animals, my favorite part of the evening is tucking Wai and Tima into bed at night. It is always dark in the barn by then and I have to turn the light on but…
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