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Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm by Forrest Pritchard

A well-written story about the transformation of a farm and the people who chose to live on it from dead-end industrial farming to a sustaining natural and organically managed farm. A thoroughly enjoyable read.

“We buried my father on a magnificent hilltop, rising above the West Virginia valley where he had spent his childhood summers. Here the grass grew so tall that the seed heads bowed in the wind, nearly touching the ground before straightening again. Below, expansive views of hay fields and forests stretched to the horizon, mountains rising on all sides.”

The Forgiven: A Novel by Lawrence Osborne.

Life changing events sometimes need forgiveness.

If you experience a life-changing event, do you need to be forgiven? Are you responsible?
Osborne gives such a full and rich description of an opulent 3-day weekend party in Morocco, you can feel the heat. You’re irritated by the sand. He describes the poverty of the native inhabitants and their resourcefulness.

An exciting and pleasurable read. “She sat on the wall listening to the waterwheels in the forgetful sunshine, baking and content. To make the lizards scatter she kicked her sandals against the pale green cushion-like prickly pears. It was perfectly silent. The air smelled of cedars. The mountains shone, paradoxically, like ice, a brown, sullied ice that shines all the same. When the wind picked up the tassels of her dress and the hat’s ribbon, she felt herself fluttering all in one piece, with the coils of lemons brushing her tongue and a whiff of thyme.”