The moon. The darkened mountains. Need I say more? (c) Adrie Lester 2013

Thank goodness Friday is here at last!  What a tumultuous couple of weeks this has been, with so much terrible news between the Monsanto Protection Act passing and Keystone still looming over our heads. On the other hand, over 1 Million Americans wrote public comments asking the President to vote against Keystone – THANK YOU! ...
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Gabriel, painting.  He gets very excited when Ella and I take out our watercolor painting, so I let him play first, with a jar of water and our paintbrushes.  He was working with such seriousness, it nearly broke my heart.  Oh, this baby.  He is getting to be such a very big baby.  He still ...
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I used to do a Gratitude Friday post here, but I think I’d like to try starting the week off with a gratitude post, instead. One of the guided meditations I’ve been listening to and practicing, includes this wonderful section: The breath is flowing in and out of the heart – for a moment, feel ...
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Can we be grateful for the hard pieces of our life, as well as the beautiful? Can we accept that there is growth to be found, that there is a lesson we are learning, even if we don’t know what it is yet? * * * “All art …” by Carl Phillips Routinely the sea, ...
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Last night, after the little ones were sleeping, we talked about how we’ve been working nonstop and we’re pretty exhausted, but we’re grateful. Grateful to have a healthy family, grateful to be here on this good piece of earth, grateful for the work. Ben said, “If we didn’t have all this work to do, we’d ...
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Well, what can I say? I’ve missed this space and all of you, but May is super crazed around here, and WordPress was acting funny. But here we are now. This little man is five months old – almost half a year! It’s zooming past, just as I knew it would. Ella’s first few months ...
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Friday.  A day home after many busy but good days at the bakery.  We spent the morning in the hoophouse and then disced the fields with Cole (our draft horse), while Ella and Gabriel, amazingly, sat in the car and listened to this children’s version of the Magic Flute. I’ve been thinking a lot about ...
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these quotes . . . ” Your work will prove your love. You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.” – Mother Teresa, from No Greater Joy “Kindness has converted more people than zeal, eloquence, ...
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I’m a little later than usual with both of these, but it was one of those weeks.  (Have I mentioned that Gabriel has four teeth coming in?  So you can guess how well I’m sleeping, lol.) Nonetheless, I am grateful.  Grateful for all the sunshine we’ve been soaking up.  Grateful for how my two little ...
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