Chewing the Cud

  • Sunflower Snow

    January 23, 2012 JustLiving Farm I walk by them every day.  Each spring we plant more sunflowers than we will ever harvest.  This isn’t so hard, a sunflower or two will produce all the seeds we’re going to eat for a year.  We plant the rest for birds to partake during late spring and early…

  • How To Censor Voice

    January 18, 2012 Yakama Mission However you might take it, a banning of books or “The books… have been moved to the district storage facility because the classes have been suspended,” what is true is students in Arizona have lost the opportunity to formally, intentionally, and critically engage in conversation concerning ethnic studies. A year…

  • Playing With Crayons Conceptualizing Art

    January 16, 2012 My Future I find it really cool when youth come up with something new, something I’ve been struggling to figure out, but haven’t.  Lately, during My Future afternoons we’ve been using crayons as an art medium.  We started gluing crayons onto poster-board and then used a blow-dryer to melt them.  Afterward melting,…

  • A Handsaw Winter Sky

    January 14, 2012 JustLiving Farm I can’t get over winter days when I watch the sun rise, Mount Pahto shimmers to the west as if showing off a new coat bought at the last snowfall sale, full moon blessing mountain above its northern shoulder, and winter blue sky unfolding.  Such days awaken cold and frozen,…

  • Epiphany

    January 8, 2012 JustLiving Farm Yakama Mission Epiphany.  There are no other days like the days of epiphany.  The Christian church holds today a bit more special than others—Jesus’ Baptism.  There are many others.  Hopefully each of us experiences epiphany, sooner or later, time and again. One who speaks to epiphany well is Wendell Berry. …