Recent screenshot from my Pinterest page, www.pinterest.com/peterfinch/
It is off-season on
the farm, a time for creative pursuits like reading, researching and writing. I
have spent quite some hours recently - through the bone-chilling weather
outside, toasty by the woodstove inside - delving into some themes that
fascinate and inspire me. The media by which I have made these explorations are
two-fold: books in print and Pinterest. That may sound like going from the
sublime to the ridiculous, but both channels have been highly rewarding.
In books, I have been
taking in There is a Season by
Patrick Lane, The Old Ways by Robert
Macfarlane, The Inconvenient Indian
by Thomas King, Secrets of the Soil
by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, Grass,
The Forgiveness of Nature by Charles Walters, The Real Crash by Peter D. Schiff, The Farm as Ecosystem by Jerry Brunetti, Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, earth works by Scott Russell Sanders, An Epidemic of Absence by Moises Velasquez-Manoff. I have been
thoroughly captivated by them all.
On Pinterest, I have
developed several boards of interest - Magical
Places, Magical Foods, Magical Plants, Health Naturally, Art & Sculpture,
Home is Where the Heart is, Green Heroes. I like the format of Pinterest;
it draws the viewer in via the image, following up by opening worlds of words, detailed
analysis and so deeper meaning through web links.
You can find boards
from my Pinterest page that are pertinent to this blog here:
