It’s hard to believe that we’ve reached the middle of August and fall is just around the corner. I feel for all of you that are struggling with the difficult decision of whether to send kids back to school virtually or in-person during a pandemic. Certainly not an easy decision to make! If you need a little break this week, check out my favorite procrastination links from around the web…

Have you noticed all of the butterflies and bees collecting pollen from your allium, coneflowers, and bee balm? They are a great reminder to keep our gardens filled with these host plants and nectar sources for far more than the color they bring to our gardens. If you need a little break this week, check out my favorite links from around the web…

How are you coping with the monotony of social distancing? It seems that so many people are finding comfort in old-fashioned letter writing. While we may not be gathering for summer barbecues and pool parties in the way we once did, putting pen to paper and sending a letter via snail mail can be the perfect way to connect. If you need a little break this week, check out my favorite links from around the web…

How are you spending your summer days? My schedule is now determined by the weather with cool and dry days left for serious yard work in the farm gardens. The farm has brought the hard work, joy, and solace that I needed this summer. If you need a little break this week, check out my favorite links from around the web…

We are busy at the farm picking greens and lettuces, and the zucchini and radishes will soon be ready. We’re going to be sharing a lot of this produce because, really, what better time is there for all of us to share the bounties from our gardens than during a pandemic? I hope you are staying safe and healthy, and if you need a little break check out my favorite links from around the web this week…

Summer officially started this past Saturday and is in full bloom at the farm. Check out my instagram for updates on our flower gardens and farmhouse renovations. While our summers may look a bit different this year, I hope you are able to enjoy the simple pleasures summer has to offer whether it’s walking on the beach, taking a stroll in the woods, or sipping lemonade on the porch. If you need a little break this week, check out my favorite links from around the web…

I thought I'd share the words written last week by Angelina Cicero, the dedicated English teacher who taught three of my four sons:

How many roads must a black man walk down, before you call him a man?

#BlackLivesMatter

If you are white and you have a fear of black men, it is not because the black man is dangerous but because you have not eaten beside him, worshipped beside him, talked with him of his dreams, held his babies, seen him look into the eyes of his wife, listened to his stories, read his history. Why have you not? Why have you accepted a segregated life? Why have you allowed this world to indoctrinate you into seeing him as the "other"? Such abstinence from the full human community is neglect. Willful ignorance. Dangerous.

If fear lives in you, canceling compassion, erasing his humanity, causing you to view him as expendable, his neck as a place to hang or crush him, his body a something you may maim or shoot, and him unworthy of kindness, you must examine why you have excused yourself from a fundamentally human act: to perceive that black lives matter. To perceive that you are the one whom people fear for a reason, not him.

While nothing can or should distract us from doing our part to fight the injustice and brutality faced by so many of our fellow human beings, my procrastination links are here, as they always are, if you need a bit of a respite…

I hope you were able to have a relaxing and safe Memorial Day weekend. If you need a little break as we work toward going back out into the world and finding our new normal, check out my favorite procrastination links from around the web this week…