Animals
- The Pause That Refreshes
Sometimes it just takes a little time away...sleeping in, eating out, whiling away a few hours in museums,and filling oneself with the sights and sounds of the cityto recharge one's battery and make home seem all the more wonderful! We spent the...
- Music To My Ears
I love music...music of all types.I've always felt that my life had a soundtrack.Different songs take me back to different times in my life. Perhaps the sweetest song, though, is the sounds of the farm at any given moment. Be it rain showers, crickets...
- Protecting The Divine
I walk outside in the morning, bathed in the light of the rising sunand I come alive. The earth reaches up to support my soles,and in doing so, stirs my soul. My skin is kissed by the gentle breeze that gives dry leaves flight,and I humbly thank...
- Not Much Happening....on The Surface
Yesterday morning I spent some time in the front pasture as the horses were grazing. As I watched them peacefully chew,I came to realize how deeply rooted in this land I have become...and how much this farm has taught me. Although the temperatures would...
- The Calm Before The Storm
Every so often I am awestruck by the quiet, peaceful, stillness of the farm.Quiet, of course, is a matter of perspective.And to most of you a normal day on the farm might seem very quiet.Yesterday afternoon, however, was the type of quiet that is so quiet...as...
Animals
The Sounds of Silence
I listened to a fascinating segment on NPR yesterday that talked about the sounds
of our world.
They talked about how sound can be divided into three groups.
Geophony...which is the sounds of the earth...wind in trees, babbling brooks, thunder, etc.
Biophony... the sound of nature....birds, insects, animals, etc.
and Anthrophony... the sounds produced by humans...music, voices, machinery, etc.
We live in a sea of sound...so much so that many of us don't know what quiet is.
So many of us live in a world over taken by anthrophony,
that we rarely hear the other two.
I thank my lucky stars on a daily basis that I have the luxury of pure quietude.
Most days I can walk outside and hear nothing but the sounds of nature,
the sounds of the earth and its creatures.
It is the constant hum of crickets and cicadas, the buzzing of bees,
the chatter of squirrels, and the song of birds that provides the background music to each day.
My nightly symphony is that of the breeze blowing through leaves,
and the chirping of crickets,
with an occasional chorus of owls, foxes, and coyotes.
When I leave the farm and travel to the city, I am aware of the over-stimulation
that human noise produces.
But when I come home to the country...
I feel my heart rate slow, my breath become deep and relaxed, my blood pressure lower.
I worry that our children may never know the peace and quiet that the land has to offer...
if humankind keeps striving to develop every square inch of this earth.
We call this progress?
We have lost so many of earth's beautiful songs already...
with the loss of each species through extinction, the song becomes less melodic.
Will we some day live in a world of only manmade sounds?
To me, nothing could be more tragic.
- The Pause That Refreshes
Sometimes it just takes a little time away...sleeping in, eating out, whiling away a few hours in museums,and filling oneself with the sights and sounds of the cityto recharge one's battery and make home seem all the more wonderful! We spent the...
- Music To My Ears
I love music...music of all types.I've always felt that my life had a soundtrack.Different songs take me back to different times in my life. Perhaps the sweetest song, though, is the sounds of the farm at any given moment. Be it rain showers, crickets...
- Protecting The Divine
I walk outside in the morning, bathed in the light of the rising sunand I come alive. The earth reaches up to support my soles,and in doing so, stirs my soul. My skin is kissed by the gentle breeze that gives dry leaves flight,and I humbly thank...
- Not Much Happening....on The Surface
Yesterday morning I spent some time in the front pasture as the horses were grazing. As I watched them peacefully chew,I came to realize how deeply rooted in this land I have become...and how much this farm has taught me. Although the temperatures would...
- The Calm Before The Storm
Every so often I am awestruck by the quiet, peaceful, stillness of the farm.Quiet, of course, is a matter of perspective.And to most of you a normal day on the farm might seem very quiet.Yesterday afternoon, however, was the type of quiet that is so quiet...as...