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Tag Archives: learning
Art: Badly drawn comic for 4 June 2017 — Learning
[See image gallery at dennis.hitzeman.com]
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The Rambling Road: Discipline
Yesterday, I wrote about being discontented and how that state drives me in so many areas, now including health. Today, I want to write about my bane: discipline. It’s surprising that discipline is a shortcoming of mine given my natural … Continue reading → Continue reading
Tagged discipline, distractedness, laziness, learning, mind, motivation, work
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The Rambling Road: Roller coaster recovery
I’ve never been seriously ill before recently, so to say that the long term effects of having been seriously ill have taken me by surprise is an understatement. In the past, I have usually been a fast healer, so despite … Continue reading → Continue reading
Tagged bad days, learning, perspective, Recovery, setbacks
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Food: Retuning cheese making
From the beginning, my desire to make cheese was rooted more in a desire to find a way to preserve milk I might actually have in excess at my farm than any other thing. That is, I never set out to make true Cheddar or Ricotta. Instead, I want to make Innisfree cheese using time-tested … Continue reading Retuning cheese making → Continue reading
Tagged Cheese, learning, mistakes, simplicity
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Thoughts from Innisfree on the Stillwater: Five years on: Disasters, reevaluations, and the straight and narrow
There are few things like a disaster of one’s own making to cause one to reevaluate. We’ve had more than a few disasters, big and small, since we came back to Innisfree on the Stillwater. They kind of come with … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged Anniversaries, commitment, disasters, failures, Farming, goals, learning, reevaluation, work
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