Nkpor This is the one-thousandth post, spread out over the past four and a half years. I have definitely kept at it. A friend was recently accusing me of “logorrhea.” If the average post is 500 words – and who knows, it might be closer to a thousand words – then I have written a tremendous […]
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Post #1,000.
06-Feb-13Kribi The Atlantic seems to have discovered that we moderns have an insatiable appetite for anything plausibly scientific on the topic of love and marriage (or our lack thereof), and out comes another article, centering on the neurological experience of love. Despite the attempt to headline this article with “there’s no such thing as everlasting love” […]
Tracking the Wildcat.
04-Feb-13Sometimes I hate the fact that I don’t wake up about an hour before dawn, when all the animals are doing interesting things. I woke up yesterday morning and went to the spring for water, when I saw an unusual set of very clear prints in the snow. All the local carnivores (except the bears) […]
A Winter Day.
02-Feb-13The day started sunny and cold and bright, good woodcutting weather, and I ended up bringing in something like nine bags of wood today. This is a good day’s work. I split some black cherry, which is so beautiful that I often feel a little bad about burning it. It supposedly takes the knife and […]
Your God Isn’t Big Enough.
02-Feb-13A first-hand account of a young woman leaving behind a limited idea of God for something more universal and true. Like all things that feel real, fascinating. I have had this conversation with numerous people whose religious ideas have been tested in the furnace of the world: and the great question always remains, “After all […]
Cold, Cold Wind.
01-Feb-13Cutting wood outside today I found it colder than any previous day in the whole winter – even though it was 19 degrees, a good 15 degrees warmer than the coldest days we’ve had so far. The difference was the wind – a bitter, terrible wind. Not even chopping wood could warm me in that […]
Red Pears.
01-Feb-13Now’s the time of year when I start dreaming about my garden. I bought some red pears and just stared and stared at them, I find their color so beautiful. Now I’m wondering where on my property I can stash some pear trees. February is a great time of year for us garden-dreamers.
Varro on Beyonce.
04-Feb-13I’ve been reading Varro’s De Re Rustica in the midst of my daily labors (mostly cutting and carrying wood), and seeing new mother Beyonce looking rather fit at the Superbowl last night minded me of this passage: “Ut te audii dicere,” inquit, “cum in Liburniam venisses, te vidisse matres familias eorum affere ligna et simul pueros, […]