by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Apr 10, 2024 | Updates
Spring is a big dance floor. Each of us moving in our own orbits, frenetic. For this moment it feels wild, chaotic, raucous, but the years have taught me the choreography of the whole. That each frenzy is but cog in the machine that is a farm. So much to be done by...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Apr 3, 2024 | Updates
When I was a youth, my volleyball team would encircle our hands placed together in the middle and yell “tenacity!” on the count of three. It was just one of many things we shouted together as a demonstration of teamwork; I never thought too hard about it. We were a...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Mar 1, 2024 | Updates
I assert that the invention of the selfie is the fount of discord. I’m not alleging that before the advent of selfies that we lived in a harmonious utopian society. Perhaps what I mean to say is the selfie is the fount of the exacerbation of discord. “The great...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Feb 20, 2024 | Updates
I’ve been living by two mantras recently. Or rather, I’ve been trying to live by two mantras recently: “there is freedom in discipline” (Anna Lavesque), and “prioritizing goals over moods” (Adam Grant). The latter: “whether you aim to get...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Feb 6, 2024 | Updates
Here’s what video games have to teach our children (or us, for that matter): growth mindset, skill building, persistence, and tenacity. Yep, I said that. Video games have useful things to teach us. In the world of video games, you must constantly learn new...
