This blog is ringing all my bells. Tana Butler is pretty smitten with the small farms in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay area and she does a good job letting you know why with a few words and a beautiful picture here and there. Thing is, I absolutely loved the area when I was there learning Korean for the Air Force and if Michelle had to choose one place to call home, Monterey would probably be it.
Maybe we would be better off spending at least a few years working for someone else on a farm located in an area we really enjoy? Beyond the attachment to the physical place, Michelle and I get along with folks on the central California coast (or, say… Portland, OR) in a way that we never will see eye to eye with central Ohio farmers. Balancing the desire for that kind of comfortable fit against the family, friends and land available to us in Ohio is going make for a tough choice.
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So I’m listening to some hearty celtic folk rock and rock on last.fm and thinking that I could really do with some real live Dropkick Murphys or some Flogging Molly, so I check their websites to see where they are playing lately. Dropkick is all over the northern US with the middle of March dedicated entirely to Boston (no surprise.) Flogging Molly looks much the same until, what’s that? They’re playing two dates in New Orleans at the House of Blues! …on March 1st and 2nd, when I will be in Ohio. Damn.
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There is an actual statement of purpose for this project coming soon, but trying to encapsulate what it is that I want to do makes my tendency to want to say the ‘correct’ thing go absolutely nuts.
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Now listening to The Velvet Underground & Nico’s Andy Warhol for the first time ever (yeah, I know!) Now I know what Violent Femmes were trying to do. Among others. And now you have an idea how long these posts can take me to write.
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You are coming to Ohio? Nice of you to let me know.
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