“What to wear on a Minnesota farm? The older farmers I know wear brown polyester jumpsuits, like factory workers. The younger ones wear jeans, but the forecast was for ninety-five degrees with heavy humidity. The wardrobe of Quaker ladies in their middle years runs to denim skirts and hiking boots. This outfit had worked fine for me in England. But one of my jobs in Minnesota will be to climb onto the industrial cuisinart in the hay barn and mix fifty-pound bags of nutritional supplement and corn into blades as big as my body. Getting a skirt caught in that thing would be bad news for Betty Crocker.”
Quote by Mary Rose O'Reilley
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The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
This book chronicles the life and spiritual development of a Quaker and Buddhist shepherd, set against the backdrop of a remote barn at the end of the world. more
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