Quietude

Quietude

Quietude: a state of stillness, calmness, and quiet in a person or place.* Rural living provides a natural setting of quietude, where people live so that they, themselves, may be imbued with quietude. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, that’s what I’ll try to show you on this website. Having lived most of a decade in the city […]

Across the Greening Fields

Across the Greening Fields

This morning when I sat down at my desk, I looked out the window. This is what came out. Across the Greening Fields Across the greening fields and through a small gap in the windbreak of Rocky Mountain Junipers was a blur of granite grey clouds banked against the silvery blanket of an overcast sky. Framed just-so in the V […]

Rural Life Matters

Rural Life Matters

So many companies, organizations, elected officials, politicians, news media, even environmental nonprofits all are complicit in a Herculean task set to disrupt our way of life without regard to us as anything more than ants destined to be crushed by the wheels of progress toward lining their pockets and building their bank accounts.

More about Sense of Place

More about Sense of Place

No matter how hard we try to explain the differences between living in or near a metropolitan area versus living close to nature, the concept of this lifestyle and experience seems to be entirely incomprehensible to those not having lived it. A life fully immersed in the natural world – as is ours – is a life in which each […]