Tag: middlemay farm
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Are you afraid of your dreams?
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt “Do you think you could help deliver human babies now?” my daughter asked after I had to go in to help a mother ewe deliver her two lambs. “I promise to be on hand when you deliver your first baby…
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Springtime at Middlemay Farm
A short hello to say that I hope you’re having a lovely day! “When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.” – Daniel Webster
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“The worst of all fears is the fear of living.” Theodore Roosevelt
Spring has come despite the fear swirling around the parking lots littered with tossed away masks anytime I venture off the farm and into the “real world.” I try not to believe too strongly in this real world created by men and women who will never be held accountable for the tales they tell. I…
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Sunday at Middlemay Farm
Enlarge Within Us a Sense of Fellowship By St. Basil (300? – 375 A.D.) The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. Oh, God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things; with our brothers the animals to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We…
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Ring Out Wild Bells by Alfred Tennyson
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and…
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Sunday at Middlemay Farm
“God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way that people want to prescribe for him; rather, his way is beyond all comprehension, free and self-determined beyond all proof. Where reason is indignant, where our nature rebels, where our…
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Sunday at Middlemay Farm
“Ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his…
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Sunday at Middlemay Farm
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the…
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Sunday at Middlemay Farm
“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.” ― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard THE TENAFLY ROAD SERIES “Characters so deep you follow them into the abyss, hoping to come out unscathed, but never returning the…
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“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.” ― Peter F. Drucker
“Broadly speaking, as good as it feels to have a plan, it’s even more freeing to realize that nearly no misstep can destroy you. This gives you the courage to improvise and experiment.” Tim Ferriss Did you know about purple chickens? I didn’t until recently. I visualized having one. The very next day an ad…
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