This week, I’m grateful for many things – the excitement in the air at the bakery with all the students returning to town, delicious new jam and mustards from Patti on the shelf at Wheatberry, our new tradition at home of veggie pizza on Sundays (so good! and so easy), the chance to help a ...
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(our 2009 PVHG grain share)
Has it really been a whole week? Before we go further – we’re very grateful this week for this kind mention in The New York Times.
This week, I’d like to linger in some gratitude for books.  Those who know me probably know that I’m a big bibliophile.  A friend once told ...
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Grateful to have moved past my fears, and made this new open banner (at last!)
Grateful for this book that’s got me fired up about socks – here we go!
Grateful for the rains that came in the night.
Grateful for visitors, and the chance to visit others.
Grateful for finally making a sewing card, instead of just thinking ...
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Grateful to be back in the habit of gratitude.
(Seth working on the horse-drawn harrow)
So very, very grateful for the beautiful birth of our dear friends Seth & Bethany’s new baby boy, Case.  Welcome, Case!
And grateful, for this, which came like a gift.
The Turning
And now, I begin to turn home.
That simple,
that hard.
Wood stacked and ready,
knives sharpened,
fabric, ...
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Gratitude to be here, in this life, on this farm, with my favorite people.  Including this one:
Have a great weekend, everyone!

Grateful for those few moments this week, amid the hustle and bustle, that I found to be still, to find some new words, like these:

by Antonio Malchudo, translation from Spanish by Robert Bly
Last night, as I was sleeping,
I dreamt — marvelous error! -
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret ...
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her fleece was white as snow (lanolin-covered snow, that is). Meet Clover, our sweet little ewe lamb, born Wednesday.  My dad was in the backyard putting up fence, walked over the hill for less than 10 minutes, and came back to see a little white lump on the ground – Clover!  Curly surprised us all ...
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If this be the world
If this be the world, let us continue
as we are today-clean pants
and green sweaters, the river pounding
below us, buttery light coming
through tall windows onto worn
wooden floors. If the truth
cannot be known,
if this be the world, let it go
on.  Where leaves have fallen,
let them fall again.
(c) 2005

Blessings on your weekend, friends.

First – my favorite moment this week, for which I am so grateful, amidst turmoil and our whole family being really sick:
Standing in the twilight drizzle, feeding the chickens with Ella, watching her gather weeds for them, and “read” them a story about bunnies.
I hope you’ll forgive me for mish-mashing a bunch of things together ...
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