Tag Archives: Life

Farming: Life and death and farming

I can’t think of many other places where the drama of life and death unfold with such breathtaking regularity as they do on the farm . Today, I had to help a cow give birth to a calf that was too big for her and got hung up on her hip bones as it was […] Continue reading

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Farming: 2010- A beer odyssey

Here’s one for the “checking something off of life’s list” category: today, at long last, I purchased the supplies necessary to form the beginnings of what I hope to be my long endeavor with brewing beer myself.
Fortunately for me, and for Dayton, the owner of Belmont Party Supply in East Dayton has made starting this endeavor […] Continue reading

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Farming: Never again

I went to the stock auction today because Keba and I hauled our calves there over the past couple of days and I wanted to see for myself what their business was all about.
I will never take my animals there or buy animals from them again.
We took nine perfectly healthy, vibrant young calves to that […] Continue reading

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Write what you know

Worldview is a lot of things, but more than anything else it has been a place where I can write about the things I am thinking with regard to a variety of topics. Recently, that broad swatch of focus has … Continue reading

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Freedom

It’s all in your head (via xkcd, one of my favorite online comics): Sure, there are practical limits to what we can do, especially when our actions affect others or when they require great amounts of effort, but almost everything … Continue reading

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