Technology and Dirt

We are about to enter our fourth week on the farm. It's crazy how quickly you can get used to an entirely different way of life. Now, in our universe, dirt is the most important thing. Water. Dirt and water. Good soil is stunningly beautiful now. A month ago, that way of thinking would have been inconceivable.

About a week ago, our macbook died. We wept. (Not really, but it's a total bummer.) How do you connect with the people you care about without a computer? It's comical, but it's odd to realize how much of who you are as a person in the world is bound up in this wee little box. There is definitely a feeling that technology doesn't really mesh with this world on the farm. Is there a hostile relationship between the advancement of techology and cultivating the earth? Not really a new question, but the timing of the demise of our computer is a little suspect... (We are guarding our iphones very carefully.)

All this to say that we really want to share our experience with you and yet all of our pictures are on the macbook... While we are hoping that our macbook can be resurrected soon, the whole forced low-technology debacle seems very illustrative of our experience: we are experiencing how much we have relied on a system that is unseen to us and composed of all these little wires and lines... Be it a computer or a food system or financial system. All this in contrast to the simplicity and infinite complexity of dirt. Our life now is dirt. Very happily.

(Funny to have to borrow a computer to share this with you...)