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Chicken Intervention

  Chicken Little,  you darn, silly thing.  Without a rooster,  from eggs chicks do not spring! Steve built a chicken tractor to allow us to move the chickens around the yard so they can scratch for bugs and whatever else they scratch for. We do our best to have happy, go-lucky chickens. The A-frame has…

2014 Gardening Groove

“In the garden one can see the time coming for both fruition and for dying back. In the garden one is moving with rather than against the inhalations and the exhalations of greater wild Nature. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. “Women Who Run With the Wolves” This has been a tough year for gardening. Wait,…

Simplify

Sometimes we balk at embarking on an enterprise because we’re afraid of being alone. We feel comfortable with the tribe around us; it makes us nervous going off into the woods on our own.  ~ Steven Pressfield, “the War of Art” I’ve been home from my vacation/writing retreat and back to my usual routine for…

Staying with the Flow

Someone who is easily distracted, even when they try to get away from distractions, needs to remain vigilant and avoid exploring branching tributaries. On my writing retreat, I began to notice how many times I got off course. I’d be humming along and suddenly notice that I was tweeting. How did I end up on…

Icy Duluth

I have a post on Vision and Verb today about an unfortunate turn of events while I was on vacation. I ended up coming home two days early. But everyone is safe. Just a wee bit stressed out. Isn’t that what vacations are for? Before things turned to $#!+, I did get a few good…