Author’s Homestead

Fair Farmer’s Ruminations

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Einstein

Due to prevailing family events, I have returned to my childhood farmstead in my retirement. Again, like life’s cycle, I live in the same house in which I grew up, walk the same barnyard and explore the fields and forests as a child.

So many memories and new experiences meld together to unearth new thoughts and creative metaphors that speak of essential cores. A rotten cabbage head becomes a troll and icicles become 3 stages of truth. Animals and birds bond with the human spirit to cooperate, persevere and serve nature’s call. The family farm is meant to survive.

These stories and poems are shared with hopes for some enlightenment that we belong together on the land … synchronized human, animal and nature.

Beautifully, how Biodiversity underpins all life on Earth Within species, across ecosystems, as consumer producers. Equality claim to basic air, water and soil quality; Diversity of sizes, colors… — Annemarie Berukoff — Medium

Beautiful snowy white bird, the largest waterfowl, With 10-foot wide wing spans and heavy bodies, Treading a 100-foot water runway to get aloft, Flocking sky high, searching for shallow weedy refuge… — Annemarie Berukoff — Medium