Comments on: Do you feel the urge? http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:31:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jess http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Jess Tue, 19 May 2009 23:57:14 +0000 http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/#comment-78 Wowsers. Yeah. I don't know if I have the attention span. OR to put it in a nicer light, I'm interested in so many different things I feel like I could be happy doing a lot of them... Wowsers. Yeah. I don’t know if I have the attention span. OR to put it in a nicer light, I’m interested in so many different things I feel like I could be happy doing a lot of them…

]]> By: Derek http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Derek Tue, 19 May 2009 20:28:00 +0000 http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/#comment-73 You have to be super dedicated to follow your dreams like that. Most people don't have it in them. My dad made his living as a professional musician for a couple years, but when his band never hit it big he went back to school to become a computer programmer. He said he would look in the Calendar section of the paper seven or eight years later and see the same bands he was playing with, still plugging away. You have to be super dedicated to follow your dreams like that. Most people don’t have it in them. My dad made his living as a professional musician for a couple years, but when his band never hit it big he went back to school to become a computer programmer. He said he would look in the Calendar section of the paper seven or eight years later and see the same bands he was playing with, still plugging away.

]]> By: Jess http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Jess Mon, 11 May 2009 19:37:00 +0000 http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/#comment-64 Thanks for the lovely comment! It's so amazing to me to think about how many folks I know who did some kind of work on farms 20-40 years ago. These days it seems like such an anomaly for a young person to be involved in agriculture.<br /><br />I do feel the sense of promise that you're describing;- growing things is so elemental, the feeling that you're coaxing something from nothing -- Michael Pollan likens gardening to a kind of (actually successful) alchemy -- getting value from nothing more than dirt and air. Thanks for the lovely comment! It’s so amazing to me to think about how many folks I know who did some kind of work on farms 20-40 years ago. These days it seems like such an anomaly for a young person to be involved in agriculture.

I do feel the sense of promise that you’re describing;- growing things is so elemental, the feeling that you’re coaxing something from nothing — Michael Pollan likens gardening to a kind of (actually successful) alchemy — getting value from nothing more than dirt and air.

]]> By: rick http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/comment-page-1/#comment-63 rick Mon, 11 May 2009 12:49:00 +0000 http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/#comment-63 Having spent too much of my time working on farms while in my teens and for $0.75 per hour...I look back on the experience and fondly remember the sunrises and sunsets. Especially the sunrises. I didn't own the crops....just a hand. There is a distinct smell of working soil that is especially strong in the early morning. The body is refreshed, the morning cool, and the crop a little more mature. Unlike our lives...this maturity holds promise. A promise that touches all senses. Breathe deep and remember. You're planting a chapter in your life that will remain a part of the tapestry you know as....you. rh Having spent too much of my time working on farms while in my teens and for $0.75 per hour…I look back on the experience and fondly remember the sunrises and sunsets. Especially the sunrises. I didn’t own the crops….just a hand. There is a distinct smell of working soil that is especially strong in the early morning. The body is refreshed, the morning cool, and the crop a little more mature. Unlike our lives…this maturity holds promise. A promise that touches all senses. Breathe deep and remember. You’re planting a chapter in your life that will remain a part of the tapestry you know as….you. rh

]]> By: Heddy http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Heddy Mon, 11 May 2009 12:00:00 +0000 http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/#comment-62 i totally feel you, girl! i'd like to elaborate, but i don't want to just end up repeating the sentiments you posted here. but let me just say a hearty AMEN! and just add, i think that part of the satisfaction you will get later at the end of this year will be the moments you pushed and struggled through... that's part of what makes an experience so uniquely our own... that we would endure patiently all of the BS for the delight that comes from whatever or whomever... anyhow, my love and greetings from NY! i totally feel you, girl! i’d like to elaborate, but i don’t want to just end up repeating the sentiments you posted here. but let me just say a hearty AMEN! and just add, i think that part of the satisfaction you will get later at the end of this year will be the moments you pushed and struggled through… that’s part of what makes an experience so uniquely our own… that we would endure patiently all of the BS for the delight that comes from whatever or whomever… anyhow, my love and greetings from NY!

]]> By: Jess http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Jess Sun, 10 May 2009 14:47:00 +0000 http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/#comment-61 Yes. I guess that's how it has to be for those of us without single-minded zealotry for something. Never being quite sure this is "it," but doing all we can to remember to enjoy what we enjoy. Yes. I guess that’s how it has to be for those of us without single-minded zealotry for something. Never being quite sure this is “it,” but doing all we can to remember to enjoy what we enjoy.

]]> By: vt http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/comment-page-1/#comment-60 vt Sun, 10 May 2009 05:12:00 +0000 http://goodfoodhappyplanet.com/do-you-feel-the-urge/#comment-60 colorado was a bit like this for me: 3/4 of the way through, there were times when i thought i'd made completely the wrong decisions but i think i would do it again. colorado was a bit like this for me: 3/4 of the way through, there were times when i thought i’d made completely the wrong decisions but i think i would do it again.

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