Mindful Monday

Poised upon this threshold of awareness I am free,

in the spotlight of my world,

my life and purpose finally clear . . .

R. A. Tankersley

The Dream

Mindful Monday

My mind is a blank.

Patricia Graynamore

(Played by Meg Ryan in

Joe Versus the Volcano)

Mindful Monday

The beauty of style and harmony 

and grace and good rhythm 

depend on simplicity

Plato

The Republic

The Pleasures of Eating

Last night, after a late night, kerosene-lit, conversation with our boys concerning the state-of-the-farm, I read the most wonderful essay by Wendell Berry.  I want so much to simply re-publish it here but don't wish to to so without permission from the author, so I will give you a link and a quote and if I gain permission I will reprint it then.

Mindful Monday

How can we have something better

if we do not imagine it?

How can we imagine it if we do not hope for it?

How can we hope for it

if we do not attempt to realize it?

Wendell Berry

Writer and Region

in

What Are People For?

Mindful Monday

You never know what is enough

Unless you know

What is more than enough.

William Blake

Proverbs of Hell

The Root of the Matter

It's been a long summer . . . but I didn't need to tell you that.

An unprecedented quantity of produce has passed through my kitchen and been processed into sauces, jams, pickles, purees, relishes, frozen foods, pastes, dried vegetables, wine, and medicines. All of this in spite of a number of crop failures. 

And we’re not finished yet.  As a matter of fact the bulk of our most important crops are just beginning to flow in.