Support your local (fill in the blank). I was finally sucked in to pledging to VPR. They made a pitch this morning about supporting local businesses, and since this is a subject so close to my heart, I felt I had to commit. And of course I had to get in a dig about my current employer consciously making the opposite choice. Yeah, it felt good.

A simpler life. While I was writing the CSA newsletter yesterday, I found myself without a voice until suddenly I was thanking everyone for joining up to share in the rhythm of farm. I almost could feel the settling down of my frenzied pace as I wrote the words. My attachment to the natural cycle of the seasons and the moon ( and the weather of course) is a calming center for me, and I guess I just had forgotten to notice those things for a little while. And then I laughed as I wrote a summary of how we got here, having moved from New Jersey to find a simpler life, when in actuality it is quite a complicated lifestyle. What makes it complicated for me is trying to fit together the natural environment and rural landscape we (think we) live in with the corporate world I come to everyday. More about that later.