by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Apr 25, 2023 | Updates
I was never an overachiever. In most realms, I didn’t like to challenge myself. In high school, I took AP classes but never took the exams to get the actual college credits. In college, I baffled some of my gen ed professors because I preferred to take classes below...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Apr 17, 2023 | Updates
I can find faces In unexpected places And post them on-line Trying to live life To its fullest potential I find exhaustion I’m surprised how much Joy is found in middle age Older is wiser You know exactly When you become middle age Robot vacuum joy I always seem to...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Apr 12, 2023 | Updates
There was a group of non-profit employees here years ago that were casually conversing with us beneath the packing shed. At one point, one of them said an entire sentence ostensibly in English, and I couldn’t understand a bit of it. Oh, I could understand the words...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Apr 12, 2023 | Updates
Living in the moment is all the rage. Now, don’t get me wrong, I can see the benefit of that to some extent, but it feels a bit over hyped. I mean, we can’t do anything to change the past right? So letting it go seems the obvious choice. But we are borne of the past,...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Mar 29, 2023 | Updates
We have this tree in our front yard that was supposed to be a weeping cherry tree, but instead is sort of a creeping cherry. Every year the tree creeps a little wider as if it were trying to blanket the whole yard. Jason wants to cut it down (it is a pain to mow...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Mar 14, 2023 | Updates
We thought we were immune. We thought it had so much to do with the conscious effort we put into being a great place to work. But it turns out it must have been plain dumb luck. Because here we are mid-March without a full farmily in place. I try hard not to be afraid...
