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9/25/2015

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Welcome home, how does that feel? to be socked straight in the heart?  Turns out welcome home ain't all welcome. Still every time there is warmth of this; the view of the sorghum molasses boil from the hill above Julie's garden, the sound of fiddle tunes, and knowing that so many people I love are under that tin roof. Welcome home.


To see pictures of the process of making sorghum molasses click here
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9/16/2015

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Some weeks life happens full force go and there ain't a damn way to write about one occurrence without derogating the significance of another. Some weeks are three weeks all at once. 
Week one is William. It is leaving Boone with a shoebox of memories, it is falling in love with the road, it is stopping at roadside attractions, it is talking to strangers in restaurants and bars and coffee shops, it is asking an absurd amount of questions, it is accepting my transiency in a community, and it is whispering I ain't scared to myself (even though I am always terrified). 
Week two is a text message I receive from my mother twelve hours after she sent it letting me know that my grandma's sweetheart has passed away. It is wanting to be back home with my grandma, it is a lesson in how to be good, it is Dr. Charles Isley singing I Wonder As I Wander at Christmas, it is the vulnerability of loving again, it is remembering that vulnerability is not the same as weakness, it is bringing barbershop quartet to sing for your sweetheart at her doorstep when she is sick, and it is Charles Isley, a good man, loving my grandmother. 
Week three is late night at the Bourbon Drive-In with Kathryn and her friends or the moment when I realize I am not ready to come home yet and that I don't really want to go to grad school quite yet, and I really like this life of adventure I am living. It is deciding to return to Whitley County, Kentucky, it is being vulnerable, it is trying to be good, it is so many tomato sandwiches, and it is remembering to ask Janice for the names of the mountains on Jellico Creek. 

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9/6/2015

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Southeast Kentucky: Knock-kneed and bug-bit, since I arrived at Musick Mountain Farm I've been asking myself what the hell did you get yourself into? And didn't you know farming was fucking hard?!  I jumped feet first into long days of 90 degree heat and dry dirt. I still haven't finished weeding that damn sweet potato patch. Right into late night coyotes coming a little too close and a copperhead even closer. I am not as alone out here as I believed. Right into family histories at the dinner table with Janice and helping her bury her cat when the dishes were cleared. I was really never much for small talk anyway. Feet first into southeast Kentucky knock-kneed and my neck crooked back from staring too long at the stars. I am stronger than I've ever been.

Below I have included a slideshow of images from life on the farm.
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9/1/2015

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Scenes from loving and leaving Boone. These are the ties that bind.  
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    Documentary Photographer, feminist, queer,  archivist, and collector of moments. Committed to liberation and their home in Appalachia. 

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