Sacred Places

It’s time for another Mary Oliver poem as part of my lunar calendar. It’s also time for an apology.

Every time I mention a new poem from the calendar, I include a link to the original post, which explains what I’m doing and why, and lists the schedule for the entire year. On September 30th, when I wrote about the previous poem, I realized the link—which I’ve been copying and pasting most of the year—was bad. Rather than leading to the original post, it simply goes back to our Website’s main page. I had to fix the link in all of the posts back to early April. I think they’re all correct now. I’m really sorry if this caused confusion.

At any rate, the poem for today’s first quarter moon in my time zone, perhaps tomorrow in yours, is At Blackwater Pond. Continue reading →

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The Homestead Reference Library: Essential Titles

As a first post on the homestead reference library after introducing the topic and qualifying the statements to be made, perhaps I should go ahead and try to tackle the tough question a reader asked that got us on the topic in the first place.

The basic question was “Do you have a ‘must have’ book list that aspiring homesteaders should start collecting?” The truest answer is “not until now.” Continue reading →

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