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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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

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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Gratitude for this:
The table cleared, the candles burning low, night coming on.
And this:
These strong men with gentle souls.
* * *
Some places to look and love:
From Kyce – mourning the oil spill, and How to be an Eco-Housewife Tips – really great.
From Heather at Shivaya Naturals – at last, a “ravelry” for sewing: My Sewing Circle, ...
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I dream that I am a cabbage.
I find an unloved piece of land
and I begin to plant:
two rows of cabbages, and then
I fill the woolen earth with more
seeds.  Carrots, potatoes, squash, wheat.
They grow taller, I tend them gently, at night
I sleep in a bed of soft leaves.
When they are ready, my little cabbages gather their ...
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(photo by Seth Seeger)
This is taken from far away, but can you see Ella riding on Ben’s back here, while he drives Cole?  Ella, Seth, Cole, and Ben had a little adventure while Mama was baking yesterday afternoon!
(photo by Ben)
Grateful for our good earth.
Grateful for our winter wheat trials coming up, looking healthy and strong.
Grateful ...
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. . . in gratitude, that is.  I’m going to try and put some extra work into cultivating gratitude this week.  Care to join me?
I’m thankful for being reminded of my expanding potential for strength.
I’m thankful for Elisabeth and Lisa’s thoughts at Threading Light (they seem to be reading my mind lately!)
I’m thankful for Ella, ...
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Hello everyone – thank you so much for your kind words and wishes for us and Ella.  I really, deeply appreciate it.  I thought I’d do a little bit of gratitude today, with some photos of some of the things making me smile these days (I am feeling much better).

And now, enough about me – ...
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I had an entirely different post planned out for today, talking about the joys of knitting.  But.  I am really struggling with gratitude this week.  Among other stresses, we found out yesterday (after over a year of trying to find a dentist to work with us) that our daughter needs a lot of very expensive ...
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This week, I’d like to take a few moments to be grateful for a daughter who’s two and a half.  There’s plenty of challenges at each age to be sure, and it is so easy to wish for things they did when they were smaller, or all the things they will do, someday.  A good ...
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