Wheatberry Bakery
Grain CSA
Fields & Fire BlogGratitude Saturday
First, I just want to say welcome to all the readers who came over from my interview swap with Heather of Shivaya Naturals. I’m so glad you stopped by! Usually I do a Gratitude Friday post, but since we had the fun interviews yesterday, let’s go for Gratitude Saturday. Shall we?
Grateful for Solstice Bulbs still blooming, and that sweet horse outside my kitchen window, munching his hay in the snow storm.
Grateful to have renewed my commitment to a daily yoga practice (even if it’s only ten minutes, with Ella beside me saying, “Now let’s do this pose, Mama! No, this one!”)
Grateful to have finished at least one sweater for Ella this winter – my first ever! (It’s the Baby Sophisticate pattern, with added pockets.) Why I chose to make my first sweater with a pattern I had to fudge for a bigger size the whole way through is anybody’s guess, but I am so thankful it worked!
Grateful for Ben’s burst of deep winter cleaning, which purged (among other things) the pile of junk behind Ella in these photos! Hoorah.
Grateful for hope in dark times, and feeling blessed in adversity. Remembering this:
The Fox
Of course I thought of you
when I saw him-
the blue-grey fox waiting in the frosted grass
for my car to move on
so that he could cross the road.
I thought how greedy I am-
I want and want-
and, amazingly, I have been given everything
I ever wanted.
The fox and I watched each other,
and when I passed he ran across
to the next field of corn stumps.
I thought of him all day,
holding him behind my eyes
until I could tell him to you,
could say that somehow
I am given even
what I have not thought
to ask for.
(c) Adrie Lester, 2004
Adrie, you bring such beauty to the world– poetry, hand-knit sweaters, food, Ella, your own amazing self. My gratitude today is that I get to be your friend.
Absolutely lovely. I found your site yesterday and am thoroughly impressed with what you are doing. I find it refreshingly motivational. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the welcome! I absolutely adore your blog. I must have spent an hour yesterday going through your archives. Such beautiful posts. And I love the poem you shared today. It resonated with me. Blessings this weekend!
Hello there! I found your blog via Heather’s interview with you, but it’s the second time your name has come across my computer screen in the past few weeks. I read about the Grain CSA (such an amazing idea) on the Boston Eat Local blog. I just moved to Massachusetts, (a tiny bit north of Boston), after living in New Hampshire for most of my life. My old community had a very vibrant ‘eat local’ scene, and I’m just starting to learn how to navigate all of that here. So (blah-di-blah-blah) what I’m getting to is, HELLO! I’m going to add your blog to my reader, and perhaps I’ll trek out to Wheatberry for a visit sometime soon.
Hi, Adrie,
Lise
I found your blog through the interview at Shivaya Naturals, and it seems like such a crazy roundabout way, but I’m so thrilled! A grain CSA right here in the Pioneer Valley? How did I miss that? I’m so excited to learn more. I’m adding your blog to my reader.
Your “neighbor” in Florence,
I want to thank you and Heather for bringing your blog and a taste of your world into my life. It is through all of the blogs that I read (I have become somewhat of a blog junkie!) that I get pictures of lives being lived incredibly thoughtful, not only to their families but to the world of the future. Through each of you I have tried new things such as baking my first loaf of bread, to being more thoughtful of the way I shop and cook and clean and see the world around me. I appreciate each of you and send out my gratitude to all. Take care and hug the ones near and dear to you! K (aka Mad Beach Maven)
Jen, thank you! Can’t wait for our dinner tomorrow – yum yum!
Jennifer,
Thank you so much – it’s so wonderful to see how one life can touch another.
Hilarie, Thank you! I always get nervous putting poems up. Glad to have you here!
Sarah,
Hello – I’ve been to your space a few times, it’s great! Welcome to Mass – it’s always hard to grow new roots, but I’m sure you will. Maybe we’ll see you next year as a shareholder.
Oh, or at Wheatberry (just read that part again!). Lovely!
Lise,
Haha, you’re not the only Valley resident to “find” us this weekend through Heather – so funny! Look forward to meeting you sometime, neighbor, and welcome.
Kathryn, Thank you for sharing this – I am totally amazed by this power of the blog. Onward!
I also popped over from Heather’s and have read away–Your blog is wonderful!
I too have found you from the Shivaya blog. Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciated the poem you have shared. Thank you! Thank you! And thank you for all you and your family do for our Great Earth! You are an inspiration especially just as I am feeling that we have reached a plateau and need to begin to continue our ascent!
Jessica, Thank you so much, and welcome.
Rhonda – Thank you. It’s so crucial, I find, to continue to be inspired to move forward in our efforts. So glad to send some your way! Welcome.
You didn’t happen to take notes on your pattern modifications did you? I’ve been looking for a first sweater to knit my almost two year old, and this looks great on your girl.
It’s great to discover your words on the good sweet life of simplicity and heart. I especially appreciate your attention to living lightly on the earth, and the inspiring way you and your family go about it. We try for the same, and the journey is a good one indeed.
Kyce at Old Recipe for a New World
I’m sure this is the first of may sweaters! I was just reading about you, your family and your many amazing projects and efforts over at Heather’s blog, and was so touched by your energy and by the fact that you actually do things, and don’t just sit and talk about them. What an inspiration, thank you.
Thank you Francesca – what kind and thoughtful comments.
LOVE your poem. love it, love it, love it.
i, too, have been given everything i have ever asked for.
this week has been challenging – it seems we still haven’t successfully bred our goats, i seem filled with grumpiness instead of gratitude, i keep snapping at my son – i am trying to stay grounded, positive and thankful. this post helps me!!
thank you
anna
Anna,
Thank you for your kind words – we’re in the process of breeding our sheep – keep your fingers crossed for us! All the best.
Hi Kyce,
Thank you! I did take notes – I’ll dig them out and send them to you, although it didn’t come out perfect. This was an easy knit, and a good first sweater, I think. Thank you for all your kind words, and welcome.
Hi Kyce! I finally found my scribbled notes and added them to my ravelry page, found here: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/arbreadrie. I’ll email you this also, just to be sure.
[...] lot of beautiful grains, and we got them to our first CSA members. We made some aprons, and some sweaters. We renewed our commitments to buy less, and we starting washing our laundry and dishes by [...]