The calendar grinds along sifting winter's cold adding sun minutes here and there stretching daylight hours Cold toes and fingers stiff but not with age grasp the icy handles buckets and shovels and my little stool and I park next to Bessie Her milk plays its notes striking, ringing the cold metal as the [...]
Books are bound together warp and woof of words and pages fibers woven into threads and strings woods woven into threads and chapters Front cover, back cover, bound and determined to state the notions and ideas of humankind It's those bindings that get them shared Not one reader or two, but hundreds and thousands and [...]
Indeed some mornings the sky electrifies with shining grandeur Sun delighting, orange and blue yea team! The celebration continues the birds happily flitting about chattering their latest views But other mornings are on slow clouds veiling the sky night time cold holding fast refusing to let go Only light through curtains clouds draped in mourning [...]
There really is a 'farm community' but it's bigger than one might think It stretches over farmers no matter where their land Soldiers have their trenches where many a battle is fought and those who lay the pipes and cables and those who dig the footings all are part of the soil With farmers it [...]
Chores done, early morning, Me 'n Grandpa are in the house Basement, actually Shiverin' cold out in the barn 'cept for the cow's warm teats But the huge coal furnace wafted warmth all over the basement toasting us before and after the shower Sunday morning, routine as usual church Grandpa puttin on his blue suit [...]
The farmhouse windows show it the beautiful living blanket that feeds us amply year after year Beginning as beautiful ebony it hold a living world microbes, by the millions scurrying about, we're learning, they do amazing things Winter's skin puts things on hold sometimes wearing pristine white sometimes hazy gray or tan patience quietly abounds [...]
Unlocking secrets of creation opening doors, Monsanto folk are real Adventuring forward, looking backward checking, checking, and checking again Is this good? Is this okay? Is it better? We're talking food here Young scientists, men and women moms and dads creme de la creme of scientists abide in the labs, the greenhouses putting 'new' in [...]
Oblivious! Sitting on the garden fence Perky as can be rain peppering the patio rapidly Sitting tall rain sliding off her easily she was thinking 'earthworm', I'll bet! As our rich black soil soaked it in the loam will surface the worms oh, fat and juicy! Filet de earth! made for each other? Our farm [...]
Kindness came to earth the prairie speaks to us sacrificed plants over thousands of years turn the soil to ebony black Gentle rains make it shine glistening in the morning Son Father creating mother, it seems Breaking winter's hardness the earth tilts to give us warmth farmers do their things scratching, massaging mother earth laying [...]
The giant tender is a ghost a galleon floating back and forth sprinkling plant food along its pathways Satellite driven much straighter than an arrow it glides my field...in through the early morning fog Corn seeds wait nestled in my shed waiting for the perfect day they'll be poured into my planter and tendered into [...]