Today I started listening to “Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred” by Victoria Loorz. I don’t know if it’s the narrator, and if it will be different when I buy the book on the kindle, but i’m very skeptical. I was raised in a very religious family, and being myself was not something I could do.
The book, maybe unintentionally, feels very preachy, and very One God based. I can see the connection to nature, and I do hope that it gets to where I’m not feeling a little, I hate to say it but, triggered almost, sooner rather than later. I wouldn’t say I “practice” any faith, but I enjoy studying paganism and wicca, and try to incorporate some of those ideals into my life. Let me tell you, that side of my family doesn’t talk to me much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m 1 hour into an 8 hour audible read, but I have a feeling it’s going to take me a lot longer than that. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll finish by week 1 of winter and have something new to share for my presentation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Self Eval Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I checked all the boxes. I did read a book that wasn’t listed, but I got the meat birds harvested (Except one, I’ll comment on that in a minute!), and I did accomplish my winter gardening goals (mostly). I guess I can’t say I checked all the boxes, because I didn’t manage to post weekly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I took the top off the meat bird enclosure while I was processing. I didn’t even count as I was doing it apparently. I just got them all done and bagged and into the freezer. I had 8 in the freezer, I thought. Turns out I’d counted one from last time! I was walking down the driveway and there’s just this white chicken pecking around in the pasture. She’s happy, so I’ll leave her alone unless she seems to get to a point where she can’t be comfortable anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This quarter was a lot of reflection and figuring out how to do better next year, followed by burnout, a serious mental health crisis, then not thinking I could do this anymore, and followed again by a renewed sense of worth and realizing that I sure can, and I will do it for ME, not for anyone else. I think that honestly had a lot to do with “Rooted” and how much it has impacted me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m so excited for next years CSA, and for getting everything happy and healthy again. I fertilized with sheep, chickens, and geese. I’ll do a soil test this spring and see what else is needed. I’m done tilling, and I’m going to do my best to go back to the sustainable practices I was working towards before I lost my hold on my garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m sad this ILC is over. I loved the faculty I got to work with, and I will miss working through issues and writing about them to hopefully help others in the future with it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I started listening to “Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred” by Victoria Loorz. I don’t know if it’s the narrator, and if it will be different when I buy the book on the kindle, but i’m very skeptical. I was raised in a very religious family, and being myself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":782,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-f23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-f23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-f23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-f23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-f23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-f23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-f23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-f23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-f23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-f23-hargis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}