Category Fathers
Random thoughts
Random… as if this blog hasn’t been random enough. Today I’ll share a few things that have crossed the path over the last several days. These should touch upon science, farming, food, and living a measured life… hopefully going somewhat along the lines of the mission here. Science – several days ago I was doing […]
Riff on an old saw
At a livestock auction long ago, my father and I had finished loading up our purchase and were turning about to make our exit. It had started to rain lightly, and the already muddy drive was getting worse by the minute. As we made our way up toward the hard road we came upon a […]
Some wheat fields
The winter wheat harvest is hitting its stride in the Heartland. “For amber waves of grain” is more than a pretty lyric in a beautiful song at the moment. Within a week or so the winter wheat harvest will grind farther north and leave Heartland fields idle or set for a double crop such as […]
Linus and Lucy?
George and Martha? Bill and Hillary? Mark Antony and Cleopatra? Well, none really. But if you had to pick one of these couples, A, B, C, or D – which makes the most sense? A – Linus and Lucy; brother and sister and supposedly full sibs. The seedlings shown here are hybrid corn seedlings. Single […]
Remembering Mother on Father’s Day
Mom passed on the 21st of last month. She was 79. My father passed in 2012, so technically my four brothers and I are now orphans. The five of us are all grown men. Most with adult children; hardly the images of orphans. It may seem strange make a point of losing both parents in […]
We hope no one is burned
Hard as it may be to believe this old man went to high school. And as far back in history as this occurred there are still remnants of the school itself. Archeologists needn’t dig for this one (yet). There was a particularly interesting young lady in my class, and her father was the Fire Chief. […]
Diaspora du jour
The great migration and refugee resettlement underway in Europe, the Middle East and Africa has captured our global attention. This is not the first mass exodus in history, and likely not the last. Other great migrations have been well documented, but many happened before recorded history and are now being pieced together to build the […]
And now a word for our Fathers
I really missed this one. In my defense I was on the road Sunday. But Monday and Tuesday have no similar excuse. Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Special days in honor of special folks are common enough. So common in February we’ve pooled a couple president’s birthdays into one President’s Day. Fair enough. But […]
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