Category: FreeForm

  • Watching out for Joy

    I am surprised to find that the first thing I started to do with this blog was look for joy. I want to explore possibility, sources of hope, people doing the Good Work that needs to be done. But as soon as I started looking for things that were good about the world, I started…

  • Strawberries!

    I just picked up the strawberries that will turn into jam, strawberry shortcake, strawberry-rhubarb pie, and give us a little spark of summer in January. Summer, summer fruitiness! Everything is extra sweet this week.

  • The Beauty of The Beach

    Yesterday was the first really warm day of the summer. Since we are primarily occupied with looking after children and growing plants, we usually spend the nice days trying to get the children to help us grow plants. Yesterday, however, we took the day off to go to the beach. It’s such a traditional summer…

  • Loving the loons

    A love song for the land I live on.

  • What I Learned from Foucault

    (II) I have known the thrill (!) of being in the wrong, For I have claimed Power That was never mine to take.