by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Aug 26, 2024 | Updates
I get nervous before every rapid in the river. The little voice kicks in, “am I good enough? Do I possess the right skills to safely and competently descend this?” The same is true at the bottom of every mountain: “am I in good enough shape to ascend this?” This same...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Aug 21, 2024 | Updates
Last week I made a lot of time. I never realized I could do that: make time. I thought it would require much more magic than I thought possible of my mere mortal self. It turns out, though, that “making time” is actually more of a shuffling of priorities than true...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Aug 11, 2024 | Updates
It rained. Not as much here as we had expected, but still, we were checking all the gauges, paddles at the ready. But then it seemed clear that none of the local rivers were up quite enough and we started doing other things-work things. It was a Friday, after all, a...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Aug 6, 2024 | Updates
Do you ever stop to think about what exactly it is that you value? I mean really dive deep into what makes you tick. It’s easier than one might imagine to lose track of these things in the slog of daily life. It takes a step back, a slowdown, an arresting of the...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Jul 23, 2024 | Updates
Many moons ago, when I was in college, my friend Kevin and I decided to go to the County Fair. We ate junk food, rode rides, played some carnival games, and laughed a lot. Turns out, for reasons I cannot recall, Kevin had a gift certificate (??) for a free palm...
by Tumbling Shoals Farm | Jul 17, 2024 | Updates
When you get behind and begin the triage, (which always seems to happen in June/July on the farm) you start to ignore the periphery. But the periphery, like a child building a sand castle, grows over time until eventually it’s so impressed with itself that it starts...
