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Volunteer Day Coming Up!
Join us for our second annual Earth Day Volunteer Day on April 20!
The End of Eden
We figured Cowboy was still nervous about the move. Once he got used to the land, he would feel more secure and calm down. Alas, as time went on, he got more territorial, and continued to charge at us, sometimes drawing blood. Nowhere was safe. He’d come at us from behind, even in the driveway. We learned to pick up a stick or shovel whenever he got near.
Oh Those Holidays…
It was the first time in 20 years Felix was not home for the holidays. I stumbled around in teary perplexity. Where was the noise? Where was the urgency?
Solstice Greetings
As you are probably aware, the Northern Hemisphere is at its darkest moment. But it won’t last. As early as tomorrow we begin to tilt and spin back towards the light.
The Pocket Has Arrived!
In the unusual and pleasurable news department, the designer and textile artist Louisa Thompson has just donated a trove of her gorgeous pockets to Lonely Worm Farm, each one marked by a squiggly worm!
Louisa was inspired by social historians Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux who wrote The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900. Before pockets were sewn into women’s clothes (a development that occurred long after they were sewn into men’s clothes), tie on pockets were very popular. In them, European women, who were often legally barred from owning anything, could keep the things necessary for their lives: keys, money, documents,
Goats & Chamomile
A short post, dedicated to Baba & Caitlin, who can appear a bit bulky and knobby, but who have a marvelous sense of balance and grace.
Love-In-Idleness
We will be celebrating the coming of summer with a bonfire and a reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on June 24. If you would like to read a part, please contact me as soon as possible! Choose 3 characters that you would like to play, and I will do my best to see that you get one of them.
