tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848360954218054222.post6928386328488712608..comments2024-03-19T08:03:15.655-07:00Comments on SAIPUA: Sarah Ryhanenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12606570701894786970noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848360954218054222.post-52462357371416585802019-01-21T17:36:07.920-08:002019-01-21T17:36:07.920-08:00Sarah,
I long for you to write a book or books and...Sarah,<br />I long for you to write a book or books and fill it with your gorgeous photos. I always come back to your blog when I need to get my creative juices flowing because YOU inspire me with your words. Your photos are the icing on the Saupua cake. So many layers!<br />I don't know f you realize how much your writing is just as important to us as your work. Thank you for sharing yourself with us. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02181513915721219775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848360954218054222.post-90418452761075366482019-01-18T23:24:42.962-08:002019-01-18T23:24:42.962-08:00My God, you are an incredible writer.My God, you are an incredible writer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848360954218054222.post-47814194207776518632019-01-14T09:06:46.497-08:002019-01-14T09:06:46.497-08:00Wendell Berry's ' Mad Farmer Liberation Fr...Wendell Berry's ' Mad Farmer Liberation Front' poem has recently resurfaced for me...,<br /><br />Say that your main crop is the forest<br />that you did not plant,<br />that you will not live to harvest.<br />Say that the leaves are harvested<br />when they have rotted into the mold.<br />Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.<br /><br />I'm out West trying to sort out these questions in restaurants. Feeding people for profit, that is. The 'industry' whether it be music or weddings or food or tech.. but like you, needing new or perhaps older definitions for what an economy is and what it means to be industrious. <br /><br />Happy to be reading along here back at the blog, where I first encountered Saipua. Grateful for this platform for more fully formed thoughts, even when they are admittedly still in gestation. Rooting for you. <br /><br />Best, <br />Caitlin Caitlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06439033093890030368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848360954218054222.post-27968414060107221782019-01-14T05:25:57.932-08:002019-01-14T05:25:57.932-08:00You might like to read the works of Elizabeth Ande...You might like to read the works of Elizabeth Anderson. She's a philosopher in Michigan whose concern is equality. What does it mean, how is it achieved, how it gives meaning to life. And how it is essentially missing in present day America. <br />I don't know how she feels about hellebores, but she's weaving a beautiful cloth, strong and colorful.<br /><br />I love what you do, thank you for your commitment. Someday I will find the coffee in the woods. Sallynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848360954218054222.post-41064057159273846572019-01-14T05:02:29.871-08:002019-01-14T05:02:29.871-08:00Hi Sarah.
I have been reading your blog and follow...Hi Sarah.<br />I have been reading your blog and followed along in silence for years, and though I always have a few comments, in the end they never seem significant enough to write down and so I stayed silent.<br /><br />I love your writing, your truth, your honesty. You're funny, yet your seriousness shines through and packs a solid punch. You are beautiful but not afraid to show and descripe the "ugly" side of farming - both the emotional side and the "frozen boogers in the nose" stuff.<br />About the rats : Guinea hens keep rats away. So I was told a few years ago, when rats started to descend on our farm and came into the house. Apparently, rats can't stand the sounds of Guineas, and I happen to know that guineas hunt rats, mice etc. mercilessly down and tear them apart! I found the remnants of a rat in the garden, torn to pieces and scattered all over the lawn. Haven't seen a rat - dead or alive- since. I'm not suggesting you put them in the basement (or am I?)but keep them around the outside of the basement. Cats are not nearly as good at catching a rat as a Guinea hen is.. in my opinion.<br />I would love to know how you wash your raw fleeces of wool. I sheared my little flock og Ouessant sheep last year and will probably have to throw the fleeces on the compost. After rinsing the wool in cold rainwater for a week then drying it, it's still filled with white bits of.. Skin? Lanolin?<br />Any way, thanks for filling this blog with meaningful reading and beauty. <br />Elisabeth. Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02222375416446784503noreply@blogger.com