I always read your work and step by step your words resonate with our life on our smallholding. I continue to be challenged by your optimism and hospitality. I am still very much a recovering community activist and after 15 yrs as a Minister in the church I now quietly tend our patch of earth and worship in quiet. I was deeply moved by ‘shallow graves’ ( too much so to write) and I know your love affair with all that lives around us intimately. I also share your frustration, although the catalyst for my action was beetroot! I have just bought a Jack called Milly to rat for me and protect our corn and root crops and your training tips are helpful. I mostly write now as your tears with the rain made be cry. I felt that someone understood this deep worship that is real. After many years of words describing and bounding the sacred I have given them all up. But crying with the rain is a sacrament bubbling up from the soul. Thank you. ( we have a Substack at Carters Smallholding that we rarely get time to write where you can see who we are)
Thank you for making the connection. It means a lot to know you're walking in the same way with the land that has claimed your attention. I love 'worship in quiet' and 'recovering community activist'.
Maizey has clearly stolen your heart. I’m impressed she can bring down a groundhog. There are a lot of them on the developmental center grounds where I work, and they look and act pretty fierce.
I always read your work and step by step your words resonate with our life on our smallholding. I continue to be challenged by your optimism and hospitality. I am still very much a recovering community activist and after 15 yrs as a Minister in the church I now quietly tend our patch of earth and worship in quiet. I was deeply moved by ‘shallow graves’ ( too much so to write) and I know your love affair with all that lives around us intimately. I also share your frustration, although the catalyst for my action was beetroot! I have just bought a Jack called Milly to rat for me and protect our corn and root crops and your training tips are helpful. I mostly write now as your tears with the rain made be cry. I felt that someone understood this deep worship that is real. After many years of words describing and bounding the sacred I have given them all up. But crying with the rain is a sacrament bubbling up from the soul. Thank you. ( we have a Substack at Carters Smallholding that we rarely get time to write where you can see who we are)
Hi Alison,
Thank you for making the connection. It means a lot to know you're walking in the same way with the land that has claimed your attention. I love 'worship in quiet' and 'recovering community activist'.
"My little pumpkin pie," oh, how I love this! 🧡
Or sometimes 'muffin pie'.
Maizey has clearly stolen your heart. I’m impressed she can bring down a groundhog. There are a lot of them on the developmental center grounds where I work, and they look and act pretty fierce.
Fierce indeed. With very large teeth.
Wordless but heart full…thank you Adam ♥️
Thank you, Heather.
Dear one,
The love is palpable. And the vole story is hilarious!
I remember the day we stood the vulnerable corn stalks around the rooms of the old house like characters in a complex domestic drama.
I am imagining you in the summer sun, singing Shenandoah on the river.
Kx
Yes, river and Shenandoah abound. Maizey has taken to swimming, all the way out.