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Announcing: Lambs in Winter: Sketches of a Vermont Life through Seasons of Change
University of Massachusetts Press 2025 https://www.umasspress.com/9781625349019/lambs-in-winter/ Finding hope in a small farm, an engaged community, and an age-old connection to the earth After half a lifetime spent moving from place to place, Alexis Lathem at last settled down with her … Continue reading
Our Total Eclipse
April 8, 2024. It was a kind of gestation period. The expectation. The growing reality of it, as the day approached, until you could feel it kicking inside of you. And when it arrived, it was like life had broken … Continue reading
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Staying Cool
It has been very hot all week. I go out to the garden only at night to water the young plants; this keeps them alive, but still, they do not get a really good drink the way they do from … Continue reading
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A Pandemic Journal
It has been more than a month and I have been to town only once, to mail some packages. I live in the country, where the stay-at-home order does not feel so confining, only strange. And sad. To live … Continue reading
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Spring Surprise
We were not expecting lambs this year. After last year’s horrible lambing season – followed by a drought – we decided not to do this anymore. Last year, as if in a conspiracy, all the ewes decided to take … Continue reading
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Autumn in Vermont
Art took these photos on his bike ride the other day– from our place past Gillette Pond, to the top of Robin’s Mountain, with great views of Mt. Mansfield and Camel’s Hump.
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Do animals have souls?
The writer and ecologist Carl Safina has been looking at animals his whole life. I am not talking about sheep – but dolphins and whales, elephants and wolves, crows and razorbills. His beautiful book, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and … Continue reading
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Looking at Lambs
Lambs in spring. Of course, that is when they are supposed to arrive. Not in dead of winter. To postpone the lambing season – which would naturally begin five months after the first cold nights—until the milder weather arrives, requires … Continue reading
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Going Gently
We buried our favorite ewe yesterday. Ten years old, Ewelysses died the way the old ewes always do: she just lay down one day and never got up again. It was in the middle of lambing season, and during her … Continue reading
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