Observations

Sideways light is the best kind of light. The way it hurtles through leaves and tumbles onto the ground like fallen pine needles.

Greenhouses are a good place to be during rainstorms. You can’t see any of the rain, but you can see all the rivulets of water traipsing down the walls of your giant fog bubble.

Clotheslines do not work in the rain.

Anticipation of the future to improve it when it becomes the present should not derogate the actual present.

Cows walk just fast enough to stay out of reach as you try to catch them, and much slower than you want once you’ve caught them.

Milking can be a profoundly meditative act.

Three turkeys trapped in a territorial ram’s pasture combined with a hungry calf’s persistent suckling at your pants leads to farm gridlock.

Fresh pears on a hot day are far more refreshing than any water bottle.

Fallen leaves and pine needles create a more marvelous carpet than I’ve seen in any living room.

Roads are meant to be walked in the middle of.

Doing something is almost always better than doing nothing.

Green tomatillo sauce may be hotter than you think. Frozen yogurt will remedy.

Abundance sells.

Overheard at market: “People are so nice in America.” –A Californian Lady in response to someone saying hello to her.

The best time to listen to music is while cooking. The best time to cook is just before you’re hungry. The best time to be hungry is not just after you’ve brushed your teeth.

Harvesting vegetables while they still have morning dew on them feels very much like the earth is giving you a present and asking you to take care of it.

If a spider bites you, and you don’t die, that’s a good sign.

You have as much time as you think you do. The more deliberately you do things the more time you have to think.

If people’s sleep patterns followed the sun, we would all be very well rested.

When dealing with animals, sometimes you have to walk the opposite direction you want an animal to go to make them go that way.

Knives must be sharpened.

Easier and more efficient are not the same thing.

The world is incredibly detailed. Intricacy, complication, and staggering variation surround us constantly.

The mail service is better in rural Massachusetts than in Brooklyn.