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I’ve started reading again, and after finishing one book just to move on to the next one, I’ve been asking myself this question a lot:
Why not read?
If you have any books that really moved you or (and possibly more importantly) made you think, comment on this. I’ll use the comments as a sort of reading list, and as I finish them, I’ll get back to you.
Reading is good. Knowledge is power. duh.
Followed by a day of much needed rest. Wouldn’t have it any other way. This marks day 5 of the 2010-11 season. Yum.
Over Thanksgiving break, I made it down to RI to visit the extended family and celebrate with strategy games, guitar, and good food. Lucky for me, my aunt and uncle have a sort of mini-farm, and we had a feast of pork, along with other farm fresh produce grown only a few months earlier.
Uncle Chris and Aunt Martha run the ‘Faella Farm‘ where they grow tons of flowers and vegetables. Recently they’ve added pigs and chickens, so now there’s a full fledged farm running over there! It’s fun to work for them and let my brain reset from all the computers and screens at work and at home in my day to day life. To see them work on the farm, eat what they grow, and enjoy it makes me jealous of the simplicity of the process, and the rewards of their labor.
Simplicity doesn’t mean it’s any easier though. A day’s work clearing brush and junk (and working with a Bobcat!) only opened up half of what’s to be the new pigpen. It’s a lot of manual labor.
Although the work is tough, it felt good to get my hands dirty (literally) and step away from the technology driven mad-house of web development that was taking over my life. A nice Thanksgiving reset if you will.
Well, it’s back to the grind now, but with a renewed sense of direction to keep things simple and rewarding. Snow is coming too, and it looks like my foreseeable weekends will be filled with Stratton, Okemo, and Sunapee. I’m looking forward to stepping away from the screens and getting back to nature. Thanks farm!
