Circular Nature

One of the gifts of living a relatively solitary life amidst acres and acres of Mother Nature is recognizing that nothing is measured in a linear fashion. Not time, not space, not life, not the end of an old year or the start of a new. Instead every aspect is circular in nature. Even the every day exchanges are circular in nature.

Land and animal and everything in between are always unfolding and evolving according to the exchanges of give and take that each individual does. No one species or individual cops out of these exchanges, and the fallout of the give and take creates exchanges for other individuals and thus every species can evolve and unfold in a manner that is conducive to the whole.

By being of circular nature every species is connected in coexistence; all creatively designed to give and take, to live and die, to evolve and unfold – and by virtue of that circular nature – to encompass all that is within.

It’s all too easy to forget that life isn’t just getting from point a to point b. It’s all too easy to forget that my choices are in flux and revolution with natures choices and decisions. It’s easy to forget that I am of a circular nature and I am also within the circle, being encompassed by the nature that is around me.

I live and measure in a linear fashion as much as the next guy, – marking time, setting dates, counting age, working a project from beginning to end, point a to point b. But the knowledge of life being circular is what I want to recall and what I want to be brave enough to go forward with.

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Day’s Greeting

When all that’s left to do is watch the sun show up to greet the day …

I have a belief, or maybe it’s better to call it a pipe dream, that the way for agriculture to meet up with Mother Nature is to set our farms and ranches up to be as deeply rooted in the relevance of our souls as they are in the relevance of our pocket books.

Only by soulfully feeding ourselves will we truly feed the world.

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Fibre and Fido

I am envious of locations around the world where guardian dogs are not necessary to keeping predators at bay and sheep safe.

I am in the midst of navigating with two young guardian dogs just entering into the challenging juvenile stage of big energy, little brain. Small lambs are being harassed, cows are being pushed off. I have been through this phase before with various dogs and every time I swear that I am going to quit with guardian dogs. I imagine the day when it will no longer be necessary to keep raising them. I imagine a place where guardian dogs are not needed.

And yet, I know if I were to move to such a location it would surely feel as though something were missing.

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