After walking the fields today it looks like we have produce to harvest and we don't want it to go to waste. It may be that we end up doing bi-weekly deliveries this month depending on what is coming in. But this week we will be making a delivery on Thursday. You have until tomorrow night at 11:59 pm to edit or skip your order!
We have enjoyed our bit of break so far this month and have been working hard to get the garden weeded, planting done for fall crops, bees taken care of, and visiting done with family and friends. We were privileged to have a new friend visit from Zimbabwe. His name is Ben Freeth, and he is a human rights advocate you can read about online. The picture this week is our family with Ben. I thought you would enjoy a poem he wrote and shared with us while he was visiting. Have a great week!
Oh simplicity! For you I long:
Away from the city and it's complexed throng,
Away from lights and noise and streets
From cars and bills and the crowds we meet.
I want to see the open sky
From open fields where I can lie
And gaze around among flowers wild-
And innocent be - as a child.
An eternal spring and a perennial stream
And hills where flowers forever team,
And a little house on a little hill
And a little garden that we can till
And a cow to milk and some hens to lay
And a horse to ride in the dawning day
And a hut to sit in, and quietly write,
Lit with simplicity by candle light.
We would spend more time together
With family, friends in simple pleasure
Doing simple work, in a simple way,
Eating simple food each simple day.
These are good and wholesome things
Enclosed in God and natures' wings
With physical work and calloused hands
And an earthy life on earthy lands.
Moneyless we would be for sure
That is simplicity's unwritten law.
But with chasing money comes a host of woe:
Stress the tyrants seed it sows.
Can we opt to live with less?
Would we live with more if we were blessed
To live close to nature, close to God,
Away from materialisms punishing rod?
Ben Freeth.
