Why is it so hard to be simple these days? Everywhere I go I see people stressing and worrying, suffering in their faces, and yet, they have it better than a lot of other people, and countries for that matter. Sometimes I too get into the rat-race, don’t get my wrong, but the orto puts it all into a different light. A farmer spends everyday preparing for the next; cultivating, tending, tilling, planning, chopping, cleaning, watering. Once the harvest is done, as we are doing this month, we are already planning next season’s crop. Often, farmers seem so stoic and wise to me, their eye wrinkles and hands tell so many stories, like Dorothea Lange’s photographs and although they are made of the salt of the earth, and are more action than words, they have taught me some of the most important lessons. “No matter what you do, or how hard you work, you still cannot control how the rain falls.”
