What was it that Dorothy said?
It’s 4am and I am up, fretting about getting out some work to a customer today. Don’t wanna miss that deadline. I am getting quite a love-hate relationship with computers and computer work now, desiring more and more to be sitting on the tractor or cleaning up the horses. I suppose it is that time of life when you really start to reevaluate your priorities. And boy, I am so sick of a desk job.
Anyhow, I seem to be reading more and more about things like organic farming, energy conservation, homesteading, hobby farms, alternative fuels, woodworking and lutherie, yadda yadda. Becoming quite the granola bar! As such I stumbled upon a book called “Simple Living”, which I have just started and think I will enjoy. Turns out that the authors are the folks who run Levering Orchard – a local business, familiar to me since I was a pretty little kid. Levering Orchard is just up the mountain from my parent’s house. We drive by there almost any time we are on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Also last weekend I went to see the new Blue Ridge Music Hall at about milepost 212 on the Parkway. Dang that place is impressive! Who knew that right there in Caroll County Virginia there are authors, playwrights, artists and musicians who are well-known, talented, and incredibly giving of their time. All these things I love – and I have been surrounded by them much of my life without even knowing it. Geez, I gotta get out more!
What was it Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz” said? Something about looking all over for happiness, only to find it was always there, in your own back yard?
