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Climbing my water tower (opens the original)
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At the top of our 16’ water tower, I dipped my mason jar in the 600-gallon tank to take measure of the pH and adjust as necessary with vinegar. Standing on the last rung of the ladder (my mom hates that I do this seemingly precarious maneuver every other day), I was reminded how I got to do this critical practice this way — Chett.Up until his influence — I would have climbed up and down that ladder testing the water at the spout at the base of the tower. Never thinking it would be so much easier
How ‘hot’ can I be? (opens the original)
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We caught another groundhog tonight — she looks to be the mom, she’s pretty big. Tiky and Bina noticed her first, caught in the trap my neighbour lent me.The groundhogs have been my greatest vulnerability this year of not knowing how the F to handle things — the dirt truth lessons of facing my limitations and asking for help because I truly needed it.Thanks for reading Mic Berman's Newsletter: 'ye old Leadership Almanac'! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my
Emptying the rows (opens the original)
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Bina threw himself upside down and immediately started writhing in the gross parts of the cabbage we’d just harvested.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1600" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tRhF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progr
The bitter sweet of growth (opens the original)
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The day I got back I went to see the progress in the old strawberry patch that is becoming the new outdoor kitchen and potential team learning space.It was amazing to see from a distance the two Douglas fir pillars temporarily erected, with 2x4s until the rest of the structure comes along. The strawberry patch now a dirt foundation. A drive shed full of the rest of the pieces cut. Each day Chett makes more progress sanding, staining. All towards the potential of what it’s becoming.<a class="imag
Ready comes as we go (opens the original)
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I walked through the garden with fresh eyes — going away is always helpful for this, doubled with the fact that Chett and his fiancée Brenda (who’s been on the farm since late June) left a day after I got back, for a family wedding. So the farm was all mine again. Every good bad wonderful ugly scary thing, all of it my responsibility all over again. A good taste for when it will be this way again after September.I noticed a lot more deeply.What’s already curedI saw the experiments I made that fa
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