I like your writing and attitude and invite you to visit Waldron Island, just beyond Orcas, if you are ever back in the San Juans with extra time. I hope to get 3 dairy sheep for my small 5 acres here, just to have dairy here. Sheep are easier to manage than goats, which I have had here before.
Just two goats milked these days. So sad with all the animal food here, so much dairy imported weekly. 70 years ago there were lots of cows and all their food was put up by hand. Sheep are smaller to have than a cow and easier to handle than goats so think they might be a good option to try.
Spinning the spiritual mud. I’ve found Saint Ignatius’s 14 Rules for Discernment helpful over the years. Particularly recently. Ties back into that Grandparent voice you mentioned for me. It’ll pull you out of that mud with tears streaming down your face. Or like a lamb from the briar. Not to mix metaphors of course…
I like your writing and attitude and invite you to visit Waldron Island, just beyond Orcas, if you are ever back in the San Juans with extra time. I hope to get 3 dairy sheep for my small 5 acres here, just to have dairy here. Sheep are easier to manage than goats, which I have had here before.
Cool, I never made it out to Waldron, appreciate the invite, and hope to take you up on that someday. Is anyone doing dairy out there?
Just two goats milked these days. So sad with all the animal food here, so much dairy imported weekly. 70 years ago there were lots of cows and all their food was put up by hand. Sheep are smaller to have than a cow and easier to handle than goats so think they might be a good option to try.
If Dylan Thomas and Jack Kerouac had a child this would have happened. This is so good.
"Not knowing what we want to do is just fine. It’s likely much worse to settle for a situation that doesn’t feed our souls."
Wish they told us this at school !
Spinning the spiritual mud. I’ve found Saint Ignatius’s 14 Rules for Discernment helpful over the years. Particularly recently. Ties back into that Grandparent voice you mentioned for me. It’ll pull you out of that mud with tears streaming down your face. Or like a lamb from the briar. Not to mix metaphors of course…
I got kerouacked by your words and share many of these feelings. Looking forward to the next episodes
Thanks Nico, appreciated and that I could Kerou-whack some heads.
I'm sure that in your next life you will be a writer, the next Herman Hesse!
Ciao Fausto