28 June 2022
Editor's Note: A trusted group of landed Latin American's has arrived at Refuge Farm to commence work on the new screened-in front porch. There will be cheerful chaos over the next few weeks around the front Fire Ring, new steel roofing and the joy of summer construction. A Supreme Court in controversy about the nature of life and votes and firearms in a government apparently at war with itself. Other stuff? A new book project is funded and underway...135 days to an Election that will drive change in fundamental ways. Arris greets this brilliant morning with the realization that "food" will be a rising issue, even here in the breadbasket of the world. Those members of the Writer's Section will try to keep it all in account. But for the start of this, we will take our usual places and watch the blue tarps being spread across the deck, husky men swinging hammers and leveraging pry-bars...yammering en espagnol- life goes on in challenging times...in Virginia's Proud Piedmont!
- Vic
Author's note: My Muse has been thinking about Ukraine and grain and things…Probably too much!
- Arrias
Arrias and His Muse