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Of Choirs & Choruses
"There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin." ~ Dejan Stojanovic The lockdown of the pandemic has brought...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
May 29, 20204 min read
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Being Alone Well
"The loners are always trouble. You know that." ~ Alex Scarrow Funny thing, this. This directive to self-isolate, to avoid people in...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Apr 17, 20206 min read
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Of Snow & Mad Quilters
"You wake up on a winter morning and pull up the shade, and what lay there the evening before is no longer there - the sodden grey yard,...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Jan 6, 20204 min read
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That 'Community' Thing
"Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious." ~ Ruth Reichl It started, our encompassment of community,...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Nov 22, 20195 min read
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Brigid & Ostara*
"There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Oct 18, 20195 min read
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Of Summer and Petrichor
"Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it,...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Aug 22, 20195 min read
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A Case of No Sirens . . . and a Rooster at Dawn.
"Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Jul 29, 20196 min read
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A Year of Farming Dangerously
"The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are to the sprung...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Jun 17, 20198 min read
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The Long Rain
"The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold wet day." ~ Dr. Seuss It has been a very wet...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
May 29, 20194 min read
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Of Mudrooms & General Muck
"The world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful" ~ e.e. cummings I have come to see that the mudroom, that ubiquitous liminal space in...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Apr 10, 20194 min read
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April Come She Will (a nod to Simon & Garfunkel)
"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Yesterday was bright, sunny,...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Mar 22, 20194 min read
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A Murder, a Dule, and a Parliament
"She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing 'yes' in the sky." ~...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Mar 3, 20195 min read
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Music . . . and the Love of a Poet
"Play it fuckin' loud!" ~ Bob Dylan We listen to a lot of music. My husband was a radio music manager when we met and we have always...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Feb 15, 20195 min read
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A Winter's Tale
"There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that's a little shy and a little rum. Some...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Feb 1, 20194 min read
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The Auguries of Night
"Snow While falling it hides your passage. When finished it documents your path." ~Richard L. Ratliff It is the heart of winter now. The...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Jan 19, 20193 min read
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Of Mountains & Molehills
"Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Jan 1, 20194 min read
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The Revelation of Bare Branches
"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter....
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Dec 21, 20183 min read
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Mare's Tails & Colt's Breath
"I am fond of the sound of horses in the night. The lifting of feet. Stamping. The clicking of their iron shoes against rock. They mouth...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Dec 5, 20184 min read
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Of snaw and feefle and katty-clean-doors*
"The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Nov 23, 20183 min read
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Wind Dances the Tarantella
"Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house," she said. "You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight." Mary did...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Nov 11, 20183 min read
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Dark
"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift." ~ Mary Oliver We never...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Nov 2, 20183 min read
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Streams: Lost & Wild
"Everything is flowing going somewhere, animals and so-called lifeless rocks as well as water. Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Oct 24, 20184 min read
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Red Dirt Girl
"A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space - a place not just set apart but reverberant - and it seems to me that, to...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Oct 10, 20184 min read
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The Hymn of Woodsmoke
"We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbours, and the wood...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Oct 3, 20183 min read
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Loving Monsters
"Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which - the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Sep 25, 20184 min read
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Woods, Door, and Whispers
"If I shut my eyes it returns: the evocation of a whole wood, a whole world of wood-darkness and flowers and birds and later summer...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Sep 18, 20183 min read
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Dust & Love on a Country Road
"Swamps where cedars grow and turtles wait on logs but not for anything in particular; fields bordered by crooked fences broken by years...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Sep 13, 20183 min read
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The Art of Porch
"No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Sep 7, 20184 min read
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The Rural Mailbox
"I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to head, heart to heart." ...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Sep 6, 20183 min read
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The Heart of a House
"It is a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They are filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Sep 3, 20182 min read
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Abandoned Barns
"Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Aug 31, 20182 min read
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The Presence in Wood Screen Doors
"The old house had a thousand doors in it. All old houses do. You can see them if you know how to look: the noontime shadow of a...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Aug 29, 20182 min read
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The Way of the Shepherd
"There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep, and who had in his eyes that...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Aug 29, 20181 min read
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The Quiet of Cows in the Fog
I once told my children when they were little that fog was a cloud that had fallen down. And, if that were the case, we could possibly...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Aug 28, 20181 min read
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Sign of the Cow
This sign is right by our driveway. It is a magical sign. It denotes a place where cows will cross. Our neighbour has a herd of about...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Aug 28, 20181 min read
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Language of Flowers
In the language of flowers, Queen Anne's Lace represents sanctuary. How very appropriate. This place, this farm . . . is our sanctuary.
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Aug 28, 20181 min read
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Wild . . . Hearts
"They are wildflowers. They would not want a name!" ~ Silas House & Neela Vaswani
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Aug 28, 20181 min read
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Hay in the Woods
The hay bales of my childhood were square, ragged and prickly - like dried out Shreddies blocks. I love these new bales, with their...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Aug 28, 20181 min read
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Farm Sculptures
Wanderings around the neighbouring fields and trails abutting our land bring to the eye strange alien shapes and mechanicals. Standing at...
Linda H.Y. Hegland
Aug 28, 20181 min read
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