“Children act by instinct. Their bodies crave sweets because under proper natural growing conditions the produce is naturally sweet, accompanied by all the minerals that should be there. Man defies this inherent natural quality by circumventing the correct fertility practices with nitrogen and potash. He follows this by adding extracted or synthesized salt and sugar…
With the recent Ohio train derailment, there’s been a lot of talk about soil, air, and water pollution, as well as health impacts. I make no claim to having all the answers, but my first thought when I heard about the derailment was, “They deal with these chemicals all the time. Aren’t there standard procedures…
“There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share…
“The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart.” ― Viktor Schauberger This week (among other things) I read the book “The…
“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl When I was a little girl, I had a heck of a time learning how to ride a bike. My brothers insisted that I learn to ride by coasting down the hill on our…
“Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.” ― Phaedrus This week in my inbox, I received pitches from a company that wanted to have us use their AI system to write posts, and another from a company that wanted…
“My 3 y.o. learned the Wisconsin goodbye…”Love you Mom…watch for deer!” 🦌😄“ How do you say “I love you” or “I’ll be thinking about you” without actually saying the words? A friend posted the above note on social media, and I thought it was so sweet that her little guy had already learned this way…
“If you want to make small changes, change the way you do things. If you want to make major changes, change the way you see things.” – Don Campbell, quoted by Gabe Brown in Dirt to Soil I just finished reading “Dirt to Soil” recently, and I’d recommend it, even for those who are not…
“A person dependent on somebody else for everything from potatoes to opinions may declare that he is a free man, and his government may issue a certificate granting him his freedom, but he will not be free. He is that variety of specialist known as a consumer, which means that he is the abject dependent…
“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.” ― L.R. Knost It was such a blessing to…