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Love & Duty

July 28, 2017

Love & Duty

“May I do my work out of love, and not out of duty.” I say this every day as part of my morning prayer.  I added it in a few years back, when homeschooling Saoirse and Ula was at its most challenging.  Like every over-achieving mom, I was having a hard time sorting out what […]

Filed Under: farm views and politics, Gainful Unemployment, Tuesday Post Tagged With: foreign exchange students, meditation, prayer

Ghosts or souls?

October 28, 2016

Ghosts or souls?

Apparently there’s not just a ghost in the basement.  There seems to be more than one.  “It’s like a room full of noisy children down there!”  My friend Joellyn, a psychic, gave us the macabre news shortly after the cafe opened when she was coming by to purchase meats.  “They’re harmless,” she assured me as […]

Filed Under: Gainful Unemployment, Tuesday Post Tagged With: family and self, family farm and personal identity, farming and identity, meditation, prayer

Pink Elephants

September 22, 2015

Pink Elephants

Maybe we can’t control our thoughts.  But we can watch and learn from them.  Ula heaves her bag onto the bench next to the door, wipes a strand of wayward hair from her glasses and gives a big sigh.  It is Saturday night.  She and Saoirse were with friends all day, while Bob went to […]

Filed Under: Homeschooling, Tuesday Post Tagged With: dyslexia, learning disability, lost dogs, meditation, vision therapy

How I earned my pets’ respect

April 7, 2015

How I earned my pets’ respect

I thought I just needed to take care of the animals, like I take care of everything else.  Then I learned the importance of sitting still. I am sitting in my office, the room lit only by firelight.  Dusky, my Poodle-Yorkie-Mongrel, is sprawled across my lap.  Ramona, my cat, mews her greeting and hops up […]

Filed Under: Daily Life, Tuesday Post Tagged With: how radical homemakers cope, meditation, prayer, radical homemaking

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