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Dear Folks: May 22, 1993
Dear Folks,
Every year I remember, too late, my vow from the past year never, ever to leave this farm in May — or in the month between mid-September and mid-October. Those are the times of rapid change, the times when we wake up every morning to something new. In May the daily newness is in the arriving voices of the [...]
Dear Folks: April 4, 1993
Dear Folks,
Things change so fast at this time of year, I thought you might enjoy a serial letter chronicling spring as it unfolds, rather than an end-of-the-month summary. So here’s installment number one.
Last weekend it got up to 60 degrees and the sun was overwhelming. We watched the huge piles of snow shrink away. Clear patches of ground appeared in [...]
Dear Folks: March 20, 1993
Dear Folks,
Happy equinox!
Foundation Farm is buried under four feet of snow, two that were already on the ground, and two more that fell during the “great blizzard” last weekend. More snow is due today. It’s been below zero just about every night for the past two weeks. Some people are getting cabin fever, but this is the kind of winter [...]
Dear Folks: February 21, 1993
Dear Folks,
I’m even more than usually happy to be in my study this Sunday afternoon, with the Mozart oboe concerto playing in the background, and with another snowstorm beginning to gather outside. I’m simply delighted to be starting this letter to you about 30 hours later than I had intended to, and with no pain.
That’s because I spent last night [...]
Dear Folks: January 23, 1993
Dear Folks,
It’s 4:30 Saturday afternoon and the last act of Meistersinger is coming over the radio from the Met. The daylight is nearly gone. The days are still short, but not as short as they were in Germany, and we’re a month past the solstice. I’m already thinking of spring. The seed packets are arriving in the mail, and I [...]
