An Update from the Farm
I haven’t written anything in a while. Perhaps you noticed. It isn’t just with you. I haven’t written anything in my personal life either. I think perhaps I needed time to simply dwell within my own new existence. I needed to live my life without reporting on it or shaping it for the ears of others. Perhaps I did not yet have the words for this life I now live, one that feels in some ways like a completely different life from the one I had before. But this morning I woke up with joy and gratitude and decided it was time for an update. It was time to let you know about this little life on the farm. Perhaps the most jarring change in my life is that my body has started to adjust to farmer time, which I despise. I wake up at 6:30am thinking I have slept in, while the spirit of my 20s groans with frustration that I can no longer seem to sleep until 9am. We have just planted alfalfa on the field next to our house, so I am greatly anticipating a true change of scenery from my windows! I hav