And this no longer looks like a trail. I was looking forward to hiking Cedar Gap as it was a second time for me. We tried this last summer. I recall slipping on some rocks on a downward slope. It scared me for a second and I regained footing with a few scratches of the […]
Holidays changed over the last year – a lot. Religious holidays changed in that as I lost traditional community in church, I found my spiritual time in other places. Before the advent of Covid, I had already been frequenting nature more than church during late Sunday mornings, but that’s another post for another time. My
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“Your water bottle is right by the tractor,” I called out and returned to my phone conversation with a friend that I had been catching up with since my move. “Those are words I never thought I’d hear you say,” she said and laughed. It’s true. We have a tractor. There is more to do
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Gratitude. I should be in a constant state of gratitude for my new life in the country, but I’m not always there. I’m more of a brat than I want to admit. I am still making adjustments; some services are slower than I’d like or they’re limited. No store in town has tahini paste, marjoram,
Check out my photos upon getting settled in the country. Bright flowers amid fallen leaves. I thought it had snowed on one of my first mornings, but a closer look showed me everything covered in a layer of frost. And then the snow finally did come.
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My first Missouri winter was the coldest it’s been in 30 years, according to some reports. Awesome. I now know how to stoke and feed the fire in our wood burning stove. I haven’t started a fire in it yet, but it’s probably not a lot more than the maintaining. I repeat the mantra I
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About five weeks into living in the cabin and three months since we left South Florida, I still have unpacked boxes. If my writing “South Florida” as though it’s a different state from Florida stands out, it is. South Florida and the rest of the state are night and day different. The Spanish language is
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Today I walked/hiked down a snowy hillside, baked an elderberry crisp and pulled thorns from a dog. This is an improvement over last year when I was administering a standardized test and commuting home through heavy South Florida traffic. How? God. While I dreamed for years of moving to the countryside, I felt that taking