It’s amazing how circular things are. It was about a year ago this time that you recommended Joel Salatin’s Everything I want to do is Illegal. I Googled it when I got home. I read the essay (that evolved into the book). Although it was a good read, I was expecting something else. I was in a different head-space last year.

The year moved along…I went on a diet…I found the Kingsolver book…modified my diet…found the Michael Pollan Omnivore book…and lo and behold, Pollan’s at Joel Salatin’s farm! Everything I needed to know was in my own backyard all this time! (Insert V-8 smack to the forehead here. What’s that they say–”When the student is ready…”)

Funny that years ago, when I first heard that you Sisters were doing your own organic farming, I thought, “How quaint.” As I learn more and more (really, what did we do before Google?), I realize that you women have been at the forefront of radicalism all along. That simple (but not easy) is radical is (to me) a real paradox.