A Few Square Inches of Light
I see through the window that it has begun to snow. Plump, lazy flakes drift more sideways than down. They appear to be arranged in ranks, with the closest tumbling...
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A Few Square Inches of Light
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A Very Particular Tree
Lately I’ve been trying to see more clearly. Since I have an unfortunate predisposition to taking myself seriously, I mean this in the most insufferably pretentious way; because the fight...
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Tracker
Tracks are an afterimage of life’s passage. Walk out into the woods after a fresh snow and you will see, recorded in paw and hoofprints, the movement of animals through...
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Divided Time
There’s a sentiment I’ve been seeing more and more lately, which goes something like this; “January first is just a day like any other. And yet we put so much...
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Phones Can Help Small Farms
A common criticism of digital tools, especially our phones, is that they draw us out of the real world and into the digital. There is an obvious one-to-one sacrifice, in...
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Beginnings and Endings and Beginnings
In business, success and growth are generally synonymous. There’s a generalized feeling that if something isn’t growing it is dying. Think of Amazon, which lost money for nine consecutive years...
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The Bright Side of Everything
With each passing year on the farm I grow less certain about how to fix the food system. I don’t mean this in the sense of what foods we should...
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Halfcocked Turkey Recipe
Halfcocked Turkey Recipe An Unconventional Approach for Perfect Turkey: Pretend It’s a Chicken One thing that always strikes me about turkey recipes is their assumption that there will be at...
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A Few Thoughts on Boredom
I have a vivid recollection from childhood. I lay beside a rhombus of sunlight on the living room floor of the house in which I grew up. The scratchy wool...
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Farm Beauty Standards
People have written endlessly about beauty standards and the malign influence of advertising, Instagram, and fashion magazines on our collective idea of what a healthy, attractive human looks like. But...
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Beef Shanks Pasta with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
One great quality of beef shanks is that basically the only way to mess them up is to undercook them. They contain so much collagen that they are in no...
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Why We're Getting Worse at Thinking
Thinking about thoughts is tricky, and writing about thinking about thoughts is trickier still. There are endless very interesting discussions to be had about just what a thought is: completely...
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Plastic Brains and Hard Choices
It seems like a day can’t go past without microplastics turning up in some new part of the human body. Recent studies have claimed to find them in lungs, livers,...
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