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Did you see my potatoes on IG? I think i got close to 20 lbs. some of them are very small, the size of a quarter but a potato is a potato. I'm trying to cure them in the basement, there is a lot of water in them. I could have left them in the ground another week or two but it started raining again Sunday and is supposed to keep raining, not a lot, on and off. I felt i needed to harvest. This is the best crop of anything i've grown in years.
With my coworker gone i had two short conversations last week, about five minuets each, with a couple of random people that i stumbled across at the agency. I'm not complaining, the only person i want to talk to is Kathleen, might at well not see anyone else. It's that bad.
You're still dry,. are there still fires in the area? I haven't heard wildfire in the news in months.
With my coworker gone i had two short conversations last week, about five minuets each, with a couple of random people that i stumbled across at the agency. I'm not complaining, the only person i want to talk to is Kathleen, might at well not see anyone else. It's that bad.
You're still dry,. are there still fires in the area? I haven't heard wildfire in the news in months.
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Really, you're close to the target-- Maria was a postulant at an old Benedictine monastery in Salzburg. And by old I mean OLD. The Cistercians were essentially a Benedictine reform: after monasticism had been going for a few hundred years, some of it got a bit rich and comfortable. So the Cistercians wanted to return to a simpler, more authentic Benedictine way of life. It's a very beautiful tradition.
Thomas Merton, if you've heard of him, was a Trappist, though IMO an extremely bad one :) His memoir, The Seven Storey Mountain is a classic... in its way. You might enjoy reading it just because it's a very interesting story/memoir (though it leaves out some crucial things that were really going on in his life).He was a monk at Gethsemane in Kentucky, one of the flagship US Trappist monasteries I think.
I totally would love to be austere if I weren't the kind of person who saves the tabs off of milk cartons. Shaker aesthetics are the best thing going-- what clarity and beauty.