I live on a farm ... — spirituality

Tiny hand, big dreams

March 26, 2009 • art • baby • children • country life • country living • culture • faith • family • farm • farm life • friends • friendship • gifts • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • photography • relationships • spirituality • thoughts

Sweet Pea, I am your grandma and I hear you in the other room.

An extraordinary find

March 2, 2009 • art • children • country life • country living • culture • dogs • economy • faith • family • farm • farm life • friends • friendship • health • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • pets • photography • Photos • relationships • snow • spirituality • thoughts

You and I, we are the ordinary man and woman on Planet Earth. We are out here living our lives and doing a few good things, making a living, supporting our families, doing laundry, cooking a meal, working the land, whatever. We are the ordinary, and it is us, the you-me-and-we of us that is the extraordinary that mankind has to offer.

The hawk came calling

February 17, 2009 • art • cats • country life • country living • dogs • economy • faith • family • farm life • flowers • friends • friendship • home • inspiration • kittens • knitting • Life • love • personal • pets • photography • Photos • snow • spirituality • thoughts

I answered his call, albeit somewhat hesitantly, and was rewarded with rich opportunities that I would not have had otherwise.

A sense of wonder

December 11, 2008 • art • baby • blogging • cats • Christmas • country life • culture • faith • family • gardening • gifts • Holidays • home • inspiration • knitting • Life • lifestyle • love • marriage • personal • pets • photography • relationships • romance • snow • spirituality • Thanksgiving • thoughts

Where has the time gone; where have the leaves, the sky, the green grasses gone. It is nearly one full month to the day since I have posted. My intent is to post once per week, to treat this blog as a weekly feature and responsibility that my readers depend upon. Regardless of my best intentions, time has lapsed. Here I am, at last. We have enjoyed several snowfalls by now, a quiet and loving Thanksgiving has come and gone as winter reaches round our cheeks and necks, up our sleeves and down our collars. Cold, cold chill is in...

Not quite what you thought it would be

November 11, 2008 • art • children • country living • faith • family • inspiration • knitting • Life • love • marriage • personal • photography • Photos • relationships • romance • spirituality • thoughts • women • writing

A few days ago I was watching something on television while my husband sat in his reclining chair reading the paper. There was a scene in the show featuring a middle aged man walking his dog along a street at night. The scene was illustrating the thoughts of married men in a typical suburban neighborhood, and for this scene the narrator said the man was thinking, "Oh crap, my dreams are never going to come true." It was a funny, unexpected line and it made both my husband and I laugh a little. We both knew that while it is...