Adam Hicks on The Peasantry School Newsletter

Adam. Many thanks for another Monday morning invitation to intertwine with your insights. Once again your words layer together thoughts, emotions, and experiences in a way that ring true both on the universal and personal level. It is remarkable to me how often you weave pieces of the world that appear to be pulled from my own observed or lived circumstances but have transformed them into concise, compelling, quilted fabrics to take refuge in and explore places of uncertainty within a safe space. If I could post photos, I'd share an image from a friend's farm I visited this weekend. I drove out of the city of Chicago only two hours. Shared a Friday supper with good friends and two young visitors on route from Colorado to New York. I was camping on their land to participate in a Saturday volunteer farm work day. I woke at sunrise and after walking in the morning light the flock of neighbors sheep came over the very modest hill of Illinois landscape. Hundreds of sheep of a variety of age. They made a lovely site in the early light of the day. I thought of your flock, your land, and was moved. I also was grateful that my day at that moment held elements of your posts. I was in community, about to start a work effort to contribute to an ecosystem I've had some relationship, and I was connecting my morning to living systems. I was alone in that moment. Not on a screen except to capture the moment in image and sound. Yet I carry the threads of your thoughts and sharing into the world.