Storm.
Posted At: Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:22 PM | Posted By: Jon Katz
If you have five inches of wool, snow has a different context. Some of the sheep like to sit out in it.
The first wave of the storm has hit, and we’ll see what happens tonight. I went out to take some photos, and I feel good about them. We’ll see. Spent a couple of hours out in the woods and wandering around doing farm chores – Annie can’t get here this afternoon. Everybody is watered, fed and has shelter. All you can do. Fed the barn cats, the goats.
Storm – snow, ice through tonight
Posted At: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:33 PM | Posted By: Jon Katz
Got a ton of nice compliments on my carriage barn snow photo and so I am inspired and encouraged to do well by the storm, photographically.
Storm, starting
Posted At: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:31 PM | Posted By: Jon Katz
The storm is just starting. Rosie came out with me to chase a ball and is eager. She’s not quite herself yet, but feeling better, eating more. We are trying to take it easy, not simple. The new, simpler era is no longer a political notion for me, but something that begins at home, in the house, with the farm, in the market, with my credit cards. It isn’t just a question of managing money, although that is important, but of managing an easier, less stressful, more meaningful life. A good way for me to ride out the storm is to be thinking and writing about that, and hope my satellite works. Running around with the camera.
New, simpler era. Big storm coming
Posted At: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:03 AM | Posted By: Jon Katz
Izzy, Marion. Hospice work. We have signed up for two new hospice patients and will meet them
next week. I am also interested in supporting a homeless shelter for teenagers in Washington County. Details to come.
December 11, 2008 – A huge and nasty ice and snow storm is bearing down on the farm, and since I’m writing a novel about a farm during a snowstorm, that could be exciting and relevant.
I got a nice e-mail yesterday from someone suggested that the good news about the country is that we may be entering a new, simpler era. I believe this and it is surely true in my own life.
As a former media critic, I am intrigued and aware of how the media impacts our psyches and view of life. I don’t glamorize the past, but I hear people squawking all the time about how biased the media are, but the truth is, the real problem with media is that they tend to talk to the converted and are transmitters of round-the-clock hysteria and alarm, from the market to the weather to the future. NPR people listen to their thing, and Fox people get their own views supported. Yuk. I do recall when the ethos of some media was to inform, not excite, argue and alarm. A country without a focused and responsible news media will experience many panics, all the time. And arguments and hostility.
It’s what they do on cable. Media have become, in my mind, a public health hazard, from NPR to CNN and Fox.
Annie came over early and we stacked the feeders and barns with hay in preparation for the storm. I will be out taking photos and hope the satellite stays up. Storm due to hit around 4 p.m., and go through the night, then turn to ice and more snow. I’d say a good bet to lose power. I will do some chores, get some food, check on the animals, make sure the de-icers are working, put the truck in the barn and try and get some serious fiction written, the elements and life willing. I don’t want to get any news today, bad or otherwise.
As long as I can, I will be blogging and putting up photos. And I want to write about this new, simpler era and how it is and will affect my life. I want to change. It is exciting, the light around the shadows.
