Chewing the Cud

  • Virtuous Redneck Liberal

    September 1, 2014 Home was a small piece of sage canyon land butting against open land. As kids, my sister, brother and I and our friends never gave it much thought biking a mile or so to a friend’s house. On any Saturday we could spend a day riding canyon roads on banana seat bikes…

  • AM Radio Justice

    August 24, 2014 It has been a busy summer and like other folks who blog and run a farm, the blog settles down somewhere in the back forty waiting for a moment of rest—often after fall harvest. Though farm work is busy and there have been more pastoral visits than normal, the summers weeklong SAGE…

  • A Better Memory, Can We Handle It?

    June 7, 2014 The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other sorts of U.S. media figured they had a great story this week with the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square. The Post, like others, spoke of how there is “no trace of remembrance on 25th anniversary of protests.” Listening to folk talking about this brought…

  • As Clouds Diminish

    April 15, 2014 When the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) began construction on the American Tepee Christian Mission in 1920 there is little chance they had a clue what they were getting themselves into. They had no idea of their Christian Doctrine of Discovery roots, but claimed the rightness of their manifest mindset. So with…

  • Sacred Cows

    March 31, 2014 As March closes out, I am thinking about the days leading into March. We’d had a fair amount of snow. It was nothing like the snow of our neighbors across the American landscape, but for the farm, plenty enough. Low temperatures and snow come hand in hand and like the snow, it…