2011 forecast

mother nature has given me the gift of january to really organize all the moving parts of my life—regrouping and reconnoitering the swirl of ideas i have filling my head.  as many of you know, her and i are on this pastoral journey with a very specific goal in mind:  the opening of an agricultural and gastronomical retreat and learning center in the pacific northwest in a few years time.  years of wondering what i wanted to do with my life.  “dad, i’m gonna quit my job and go to culinary school.”  actually pretty glad he talked me out of that one.

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