Monthly Archives: April 2011

     I’d seen the boy last year already, lifting his walker over the potholes in the street, accompanied by an older lad. When I spoke to him, he tried to focus on me with his roving eyes, a big smile … Continue reading →

     Chewing a handful of soybeans, I watch the modern John Deere STS9670 combine chew its way down the field. To one side is the slim silver outline of the idle irrigation pivot, behind it the dark outline of the … Continue reading →

     My mother taught me to bake bread when I was nine. Neither of us dreamed that simple act would one day touch Africa! I met Eliness at a Natural Medicine workshop I was facilitating. A week later she visited … Continue reading →

     April Fool’s Day – right. “What’s the table and chairs for?” Robert asks, as he helps Stanley unload his truck. “That’s for Marianne, when she teaches about Moringa and Artemisia.” Whoa. Can you clarify that?? He did ask me … Continue reading →