If I have ever really known a place, it is the five acres of land I grew up on.

First, let me say that it’s been a great weekend.

-flickr favorites

-favorite new recipe

-favorite snack (you’d be amazed at how much a bit of iodine can raise a girls spirits!)

-favorite smell

-favorite coffee

-favorite lunch

If I am my worst in the afternoon, I am my best in the morning, especially when the morning is quiet and still and sunny.

I am spending this morning before work in an odd jumble of pajamas letting the oatmeal settle, drinking milk, and watching little birds nibble the frost-kissed berries outside our window.

There are moments when it creeps up on me.

Wendell Berry on rebuilding local economies:

“The standard by which we chose must be the health of our community- and by that we must mean the whole community: ourselves, the place we live, and all the humans and other creatures that live there with us. In a healthy community, people will be richer in their neighbors, in neighborhood, in the health and pleasure of neighborhood than in their bank accounts.