I forget sometimes how satisfying a good old fashioned rant can be. This guy is the son of a friend of a friend and he has about the best rant I’ve ever seen. Give it a listen…
Apologies to the raccoons
...and many thanks to the Beehive Collective up in Maine for creating this and many other wonderful images. They've taken on a lot of important issues over the years--their latest is mountaintop removal in Appalachia. Stay tuned.
Straying Home
I've started another blog, a chapter-by-chapter, week-by-week serial about the changes I made in my life and what went before. I'm calling it "Straying Home", and when it's all online I'm going to publish it as a book. If you want to watch it in progress you can go to www.strayinghome.wordpress.com
The Invisible Chair
The best seat in our house is definitely The Invisible Chair. Mark invented it a couple of years ago and we've got the prototype in the living room. Most days it's just a chair--we sit on it to use the house computer, we pull it out on the porch when we need an extra place to sit, visiting children have crayoned on it--but on evenings when people sit around playing music, it reveals its other side.....-
..we can choose to live in joy.
"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrow, but we can choose to live in joy." Joseph Campbell 1904-1987
All six hens are laying now--brown eggs from the two Barred Rocks and these lovely little blue-green eggs from the Americaunas.
1 Comment
November 17, 2007 at 2:41 am
Nice poetry there for awhile.