Common Sense Home Good News Letter 10/09/22

“Bins, baskets, boxes, and buckets filled with produce festooned the home in celebration of the harvest. The arrangements weren’t likely to be featured in an upscale magazine any time soon, but they represented abundance, and the culmination of a another season of hard work. The land took care of those who took care of the…

“Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A. A. Milne When I was in my early teens back on the family farm, one winter morning mom came in with a tiny chick, covered in manure. One of our free range hens had decided to make herself a…

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke Isn’t it funny how on all the time travel shows, they talk about being careful with even the smallest action, because it might disrupt the timeline, yet most of us go through our days with…

“I think that to one in sympathy with nature, each season, in turn, seems the loveliest.” ― Mark Twain Living inside a passive solar home is something like living inside a giant sundial. It’s impossible to ignore the changing of the seasons, as the sun moves into and out of the house, wrapping around to…

“Don’t believe the noise. Those mean, petty, hateful voices will never be the majority. They only seem loud and pervasive, because they have the idle time to broadcast their negativity. The rest of us are too busy with real efforts to make the world a better place.” ― Anthon St. Maarten This morning I woke…

“Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.” – David Rockwell We had a slight disruption last weekend when the power grid went down for a couple of hours, but thankfully it was just a tree on the line and the crews had power restored fairly…