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Crooked Beauty
What makes something beautiful? The ancient Greeks and Romans thought there some basic ingredients to beauty, including proportion, perfection, and also symmetry. For a long time, I have been thinking...
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A Lost Soul
A friend of mine was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood last weekend. My family and I drove down to our old town to attend his first Mass celebration. It was a packed event—a testament to the...
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The Secret of the Butterfly
The butterflies flutter by Adrift on winds as lilac limbs And branches thoughtfully Wave and leafy finger skims Fingered frond and flowering tip. Dancing on legs like pins And buttery wings that skip...
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Two Very Silly Poems
Papa, these poems are too silly! To Samuel Johnson, on the Completion of his Long-Awaited Dictionary: O! Contrafribularities!— Picture a lonely bear at ease Upon a desert strand, Sipping moonshine in...
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A Practice Farm: The Acorn
The Beginnings: Last June, House with new chimneys, before new roof. Last June, Mary and I and our four wonderful boys, William (now 9 yrs.), Hugh (6), Matthias (4), and Raphael (2), moved to Barry’s...
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A Practice Farm: Ruff Beginnings, Part One
My boys and their grandpa excited over our new little Australian Cattle Dog, Fionn MacCumhall Sometimes a chain of challenges or mistakes ends off on one golden link, which looks all the brighter in...
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Scythe no more?
The Smaller Scythe is a brushing scythe—great for clearing underbrush and heavy weeds and shrubs. The larger is my Lee Valley special—more on that below… What’s with lawn-mowers anyway? They’re noisy,...
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Scythe no more, Ladies: A Shakespearean Fragment
“Here Miss, I’ll do the scything—you enjoy these nice grapes.”Image from: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/N/N03/N03184_10.jpg To do with my last post, the great Shakespeare scholar, William X....
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Disclaimer!
One of the wrecks on the list for repair…. someday! A friend recently told me that he had the impression from my blog that I was up here in God’s country living the ideal and idyllic self-sufficient...
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A Practice Farm: Ruff Beginnings, Part Two
Morris, the Black Alpine Buck, and Mathilda the white Pygmy Doe…a hint of where this story leads…. Well despite my hints that the continuation of this story led us to otherworldly places on a perilous...
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