Posts Tagged ‘climbing’

Fall Vacation

I just returned from a great vacation.  A week-long climbing trip in Bishop and Joshua Tree.

It had been a while, but on the trip, I don’t know if I thought about the farm more than a few times.  Sad?  Not really.  It was just really nice to get away, incorporate other facets into my life.  Balance, it dawned on me again and again this year, is key to surviving. Period.

That maxim holds for the farm.  I know that we are created to be such good workers in this nation, and that’s what most of us do.  We just work. Oh sure, we start out doing something sometimes because we like it, but then we get into the monotony of work, and bam, thirty years later it’s mid-life crisis time.

I am a fan of work.  Yes.  But, I can only sustain my work with a purpose, an intention behind my work.  I struggle to find that purpose sometimes, but, I continually look to come back to my intention.  It helps me.

Before farming, there was climbing for me.  I spent the greater part of college climbing.  When I moved back home, it became farming.  In a twist of beatific fate, I realized the best time to climb in California is in the winter, and the best time to farm is every other part of the year!

I hope it’s all going well,

Andrew