Chewing the Cud

  • Residential & Boarding Schools

    Indigenous Month #1 A Statement from the Center for IndigenousMinistries (DOC) regarding Indigenous Residential / Boarding Schools of Canada and the United States Over the last several months nearly 1,000 unmarked children graves were discovered at former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, Canada.  This unspeakable news is not lost on US Indigenous parents whose…

  • To Remember and Honor

    Tomorrow is Memorial Day.  As National Holidays go, you cannot argue against remembering those who died while serving in the United States Armed Services.  And we should not. However, if we are going to honor the dead due to military service, then for those of us who live within US borders, we cannot and should not stop there. Memorial…

  • Redemptive Normal

    “I can’t wait to get back to normal.”  Earnestly said.  We’ve all said it in one way or another this last year.   Four of us stood in the pasture.  A late winter breeze caused each of us to raise our coat collar.  We’d gathered to talk about landscape practices, the need of land care, and our struggle to maintain…

  • Twelfth Day

    White breath emerged from our masks.  On the fifth morning of Christmas a friend stopped by to load a ton of hay for his horses and cattle.  As sunlight filtered through the overcast sky we warmed to the work. Backed to the haystack, the pickup’s tailgate left just enough space to load the lower bales…

  • Gift

    A friend gave us a handful of cuzinni seeds a few years ago.  Being a “Seeder,” the only one I know, he cannot help himself when it comes to seeds.  Whether walking a sidewalk or the countryside, he revels in the partaking of seeds freely given by plants.  When he tells a story of finding…