Some days are giant magnets pulling so hard they snap! And we go! Emotions ride hard and high about Christmas, family and being together Mom's and kids and grandkids tender dads, kisses and hugs caring that was born and grows always So highways and byways trains and planes and even ships take folks in and [...]
What comes naturally is 'going with the flow' no need for a sail just put your boat out into the current Lots of company floating along life is but a party! A continual celebration down a lazy river of days, months, and years. But there's some folks who set their sails pull out the oars [...]
Strange, those who take the best seeds carefully selected admire them treasure them and bury them in the soil! What drives that planter to bury his food into the dark, unknown, unseen? Faith, I say, in life and all its processes in design and a creator who rewards those who step out step forward [...]
Streaming, steaming to Chicago Illinois farm folks hit the roads pouring from their farms all across the state Cairo to Galena Danville over to Quincy Champaign, Decatur, Springfield, some 2,000 arrive in the Loop Indeed it's Science modern agriculture education on the move botany, biology, genetics animal science, food science soil science, medicine setting [...]
Corn stubble fields like two day old beards lay softly sodden by the dew Soybean fields lie in wait the fruits of their labor ready Come on harvest! Mother earth had different plans as the sun slipped up a downy blanket came down fog quietly forming on the warm earth spawned by cool moist [...]
Turn the name, upside down, and it is, of course, rightfully so: WOW! She carries us, in part, as an egg. Waiting A funny fish attaches and human is created afresh Each and every single one different And so we grow hidden away protected and nourished precisely and grow and grow until some fateful [...]
I know them. Individuals, couples, teams. I watch them, study them with fascination and respect Indeed there are rich soils that mother them, father them Sustain them, keep them going Most of them just do their jobs quietly, not in the newspapers and not on tv But The teams they create the contributions that [...]
More than a brother and a sister they come to share burdens and joys and their hands They lift and carry cook and drive working with us side by side Two by fours Building with those basic parts something more, better, more quickly This week two million pounds of corn harvested, transported Early morning [...]
Welcome words to the soldier standing in line He showed up early, early, early, for formation Drill Instructor fudged for early Shavetail lieutenant fudged for early and our recruit was being cautious! So there he was standing in formation spit spot all shined waiting, waiting, waiting Company, TEN HUT!!! Inspection Eyes forward, don't move! [...]
"Where has October gone"? asked a friend in agriculture. "It's been graced with sprinkles, laced with showers again and again. Cold weather, warm weather, hurry then wait while crops and soils dry out." The raindrops bind the harvesters keeping them in their pens their masters under roofs Desk work and meetings often the fare [...]