BLOGS

I don’t know about you, but I relish in the stillness of the early morning. It is quiet and peaceful. For a moment, our crazy, busy world is calm.

The Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit was a place of paradise with everything there for the taking. Living in a state of bliss, they got along perfectly. No disagreements, no frustrations, no adversity.

“My husband came in at lunch and told me the statistics on farmer suicide. He told me how hopeless he felt. I was scared to let him go back to the field.”

“I am always so angry. I yell at the kids and throw things in the milkhouse. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”

“He asked for help. The nurses laughed at him. He cried and asked if I thought he was crazy.”

The nature of agriculture has changed consistently through the decades, becoming largely a global phenomenon. The events farmers experience on one side of the planet, from weather to low prices, often have an impact for those on the other side of the world, especially when it comes to international markets.

As a mom of three little girls, I have been caught up in Disney’s Frozen phenomenon for years. Of course, when the sequel was released this fall, we went to the theatre to see it, and I wondered what song would be stuck in my head (and probably sung throughout my house) for the following days and weeks.