Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer

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Cigar Rumination #2
I fancied myself the village atheist for many years, until I looked around one day and realized the villagers had usurped my position.
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Morning Song
This is the moment each day when belief surfaces and I am most aware of my own soul—on the porch in the predawn, where I sit, watch, listen, and wait.
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What if Collapse Has Already Happened?
Popular culture has primed us to expect civilizational collapse.
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The Beauty Around Me
The world at the edges of the farm disappears in a conjuring act as spring fully buds in the forest.
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The Span of a Season
Peeps and pips emanating from the living room make the presence of chicks hatching in our Brinsea incubator there known.
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Building the Sow Shed
(This essay of mine just ran in Plough Quarterly, the spring “Why We Work” issue.
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Farewell, Peak Literacy, We Hardly Knew You
Guest post by Brian Miller
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Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer
Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer
A small-farm agrarian life, serving a convivial table.
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