Thursday, September 3, 2026

                                                    March 25, 1934 - September 2, 2026

Thank you, Gloria, for all of your years of strength and wisdom, your encouragement and trying to help us move forward.

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

"Practice Resurrection."

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

by Wendell Berry

"Love the quick profit, the annual raise,

vacation with pay. Want more

of everything ready-made. Be afraid

to know your neighbors and to die.

And you will have a window in your head.

Not even your future will be a mystery

any more. Your mind will be punched in a card

and shut away in a little drawer.

When they want you to buy something

they will call you. When they want you

to die for profit they will let you know.

"So, friends, every day do something

that won’t compute. Love the Lord.

Love the world. Work for nothing.

Take all that you have and be poor.

Love someone who does not deserve it.

Denounce the government and embrace

the flag. Hope to live in that free

republic for which it stands.

Give your approval to all you cannot

understand. Praise ignorance, for what man

has not encountered he has not destroyed.

"Ask the questions that have no answers.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

Say that your main crop is the forest

that you did not plant,

that you will not live to harvest.

Say that the leaves are harvested

when they have rotted into the mold.

Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.

"Put your faith in the two inches of humus

that will build under the trees

every thousand years.

"Listen to carrion — put your ear

close, and hear the faint chattering

of the songs that are to come.

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"Expect the end of the world. Laugh.

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful

though you have considered all the facts.

So long as women do not go cheap

for power, please women more than men.

Ask yourself: Will this satisfy

a woman satisfied to bear a child?

Will this disturb the sleep

of a woman near to giving birth?

"Go with your love to the fields.

Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head

in her lap. Swear allegiance

to what is nighest your thoughts.

As soon as the generals and the politicos

can predict the motions of your mind,

lose it. Leave it as a sign

to mark the false trail, the way

you didn’t go. Be like the fox

who makes more tracks than necessary,

some in the wrong direction.

"Practice resurrection."

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” from The Country of Marriage,Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

1973. Also published by Counterpoint Press

in The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry,

1999; The Mad Farmer Poems

, 2008;

New Collected Poems, 2012

Wendell Berry left this plane of existence yesterday.  My eternal gratitude to him for his wealth of wisdom that he has shared with us over the years.  

Saturday, August 29, 2026

 

The sky this morning when I got up.

The Autumn 🍂 music 🎶 makers are out now at early morning and at dusk in the evenings.  🦗  🦗 I can hardly wrap my little challenged mind around another change in seasons already. I’m  thinking about one gallon pots and cold seasons vegetables 🥗 for the first time in years. I  should say I think about a little container gardening ever year but it has been years since I’ve actually felt like physically I may actually be able to pull it off. 😁. It would be fun to try anyway.   

I played in the kitchen a while today.  I made Cinnamon Swirl Bread, but of course, me being me, forgot to do the 'swirl' part when I put it in the pan.  It still tastes delicious.  :D  

Friday, August 28, 2026

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Wild Woman Sisterhood:

Every minute someone leaves this world behind.

Age has nothing to do with it.

We are all in this line without realizing it.

We never know how many people are before us.

We cannot move to the back of the line.

We cannot step out of the line.

We cannot avoid the line.

So while we wait in line:

Make moments count.

Make a difference.

Make the call.

Make priorities.

Make the time.

Make your gifts known.

Make a nobody feel like a somebody.

Make your voice heard.

Make the small things big.

Make someone smile.

Make the change.

Make yourself a priority.

Make love.

Make up.

Make peace.

Make sure to tell your people they are loved.

Make waves.

Make sure to have no regrets.

Make sure you are ready.

This world will often leave you wishing you had just 5 more minutes. Feel free to share this powerful reminder on perspective and wake up each day realizing it is a gift and to make the most of it!

Author: Marianne Baum

Artwork: Oliver Flores

Instagram.com/wildwomansisterhoodOfficial

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YOU CAN FEEL THE WHEEL TURNING.......there's a crispness to the early morning air and at dusk when there is a breeze......It won't be long before the hummingbirds for left for the Winter. I will miss them.

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Such an example of kindness, love, and generosity.  She will be missed by so many.

Sunday, August 23, 2026

 

Saturday, August 22, 2026

I had my regular eye exam yesterday, and has been the case since I started wearing glasses years ago, I have to have a new prescription.  I am excited about the new lens (won't be here for about a week) because they are supposed to be better for reading, which I do a LOT of EVERY DAY.  And I am getting some new frames as well.  I'm always relieved when I have my appointments behind me.

Thursday, August 20, 2026

 We had a little rain this morning, for which I am immensely grateful!  My heart and soul end up feeling parched when we go very long without rain.  Some of my friends tease me about my love for storms/rain/the changing seasons.  I have been struggling with a little raised, shabby plastic garden bed which has given me a few cherry tomatoes and, oh what is the name of the little flowers? Sometimes words just make a mad dash from my mind.  Oh well, it will come to me.  Anyway the little MARIGOLDS (see, I told you it would come to me) offered me some really cheerful blooms until some critter decided it needed to eat the blossoms.  And of course the deer eventually found my two little cherry tomato plants and dined on them.  I even planted (in the ground) some zinnia seeds, a few of which germinated and were budding when the deer found them too.  Oh well, maybe next year.

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

 

Monday, August 17 2026

(Women Forward):  Bulldozers are now tearing through Mariscal Mountain in Big Bend National Park on the Trump administration's orders.

Local advocates have warned that continued construction will irreversibly damage archaeological sites and sacred land within Big Bend.

Trump's contempt for American land and wildlife is staggering.