by Dawn | Sep 22, 2015 | family, parenting, sustainability
It was decided that the trans-hen-der chicken-that-is-really-a-rooster could not go be sent to the crock pot without a revolt from this vegetarian and that little boy. Then it crowed at 6:10AM, waking the boy again. I started thinking. Humans have eaten animals for...
by Dawn | May 19, 2015 | simplicity, sustainability
Chicken Day is here. We went to the Putnam Farmer’s Co-op to pick out the birds a couple days ago. Putnam is an old Connecticut mill town in “The Quiet Corner,” the Northeastern part of Connecticut now famous for antique shops, formerly where...
by Dawn | Apr 8, 2015 | parenting, religion, Teaching
I told Declan the story of the Passover the other night. Too many people separate Judaism and Christianity. I imagine being a Jew in the time of Jesus–Romans, poverty, political turmoil. Being a Jew in the time of Jesus was sort of like being a colonist...
by Dawn | Jan 14, 2014 | simplicity, Zen
Seed catalog season. They started coming last month. I really should be planning the garden. I can virtually smell it around me… Wait, that’s compost. It’s been a couple weeks and a few feet of snow since I took out the compost. That little carbon...