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Stopping By Fields On a Harvest Afternoon

Deborah — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:20:08 +0000

*my apologies to Robert Frost Whose fields these are I think I know.His house sits there across the road.And we are in the combine here.To watch it cut row after row. We knew that harvest hovered near The cycle of another year. With sweeping fields of golden grainAnd cloudless skies all blue and clear. The tractor trundles [...]

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A Counting and Accounting

Deborah — Thu, 23 May 2024 12:27:24 +0000

Through the years…..of rhythms and routines, settledness and unsettledness, change and consistency, counting and accounting, here are a few numbers and notations that have been part of who we are, formed our family, find us standing here today. It’s fun to list.It’s notable to take note.There’s story in reflection. A shallow deep dive that barely [...]

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On Toy Tractors, Pink Rugs, and Farming in Real Life

Deborah — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 23:27:23 +0000

From across the field, this view from my living room windows – the ones in want of a good washing – often transports me to the land of toys and make-believe. From across the field, from my front porch – the one where random dog toys and chew ropes and two dogs sprawl – it [...]

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The Growing Season Giveaway

Deborah — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 22:27:36 +0000

One of my favorite autumn colors is baby wheat shining green. We’re right in the midst of wheat drilling. The freshly cultivated fields with the lines and furrows in the dirt are ever a source of beauty to me. We had a few fields sowed and then, as It Does, the rain fell. We have [...]

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A Common Masterpiece

Deborah — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 14:22:45 +0000

Raspberry coffee drips in the coffeemaker. The quiet of the morning surrounds me. My farmer man left early, thus the raspberry dripping. I sent him out the door with hazelnut and a splash of half and half in his insulated mug, given to us by the insurance company, their name scrawled in letters across the side. Sliding the [...]

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In The Pause

Deborah — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:43:05 +0000

I’d been a bit chilly all day, snuggled into a favorite sweatshirt. The oven warmth was welcoming as I slid pans of cinnamon-sugar coated cookies in and out. At the edge of the kitchen, the calendar beamed its brand-new April page as I’d actually remembered to turn it this morning. Sunshine played peekaboo and a southish wind sent drafts around [...]

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