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I have no parents: I make heaven and earth my parents I have no home: I make awareness my home I have no life or death: I make the tides of my breathing my life and death I have no divine power: I make honesty my divine power I have no means: I make understandingContinue reading “Spiral Herb Circle and Gravity Flow Wash Station”

The Cult of Done Manifesto There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. There is no editing stage. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you knowContinue reading “Micr:o! Automated, Micro-sprinkler irrigated, Green-house Micro-greens.”

To dig in the mellow soil-to dig moderately, for all pleasure should be taken sparingly-is a great thing. One gets strength out of the ground as often as one really touches it with a hoe. Antaeus (this is a classical article) was no doubt an agriculturist; and such a prize-fighter as Hercules couldn’t do anyContinue reading “Not just growing beets…”

The rushes daily grow taller; Apricot blossoms daily more lush. As an old farmer, I enjoy the view; Everything I do according to the seasons. I rise early to feed the cows; Then yoke a pair to farm in eastern acres.   Earthworms crawl in and out of the ground; Field crows follow me around,Continue reading “CIA Student Farm at Charles Krug Winery”

One ton, maybe more, of different winter squash

The moon and sun are eternal travelersEven the years wander on.  A lifetime adriftin a boat or in oldage leading a tiredhorse into the years,everyday is a journey, andthe journey itself ishome. Bashō: Oku-no-hosomichi

No, when I got to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head.  True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.  And at first, this sort ofContinue reading “Putting in Work: From School-Master to Sailor”