Friday Farm Favorites
JOY COMES BACK
When you finally realise that joy is less fireworks, more firefly
less orchestra, more birdsong
she will come back much more often
for joy will not fight with the fast pace of this life
she is not in the shiny or the new
she breathes in the basic,
simmers in the simple
and dances in the daily to-and-fro
joy has been beckoning you
for many a year my friend
you were just too busy doing, to see the very next time joy wraps her quiet warmth around you
as the garden embraces your weary body in its wildness
tip her a nod…she doesn’t stay long
but if you are a gracious host
joy comes back.
~Donna Ashworth
Categories: Reflections on Farm Life
fourth generation farmgirl 
Hello, Tonya! I am so happy to see this email show up! I love this poem, and I hope it means that joy HAS come back! (I hope this comment doesn’t show up twice. I entered a similar earlier, but wasn’t sure if it worked.)
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Hi Judy,
Thank you for commenting. I love this poem, too. Joy has definitely come back…it’s been back for a while. 🙂 We’ll have to get together this summer. I would like to catchup with you!
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Definitely! We are just a few years overdue for that! We are home most of the summer, so I think we can make this work!
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Sounds good!
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Welcome back, joyful lady!
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Thank you! 🙂
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This is lovely, and so true. How nice to see your blog post. How are you? The farm looks beautiful. I cannot recall the name of the dear sheep you love…Hamish?
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Thank you! I am well. I hope you are, too. 🙂
Yes…Hamish was definitely a favorite. Sadly, he passed away in 2021. I miss him very much. He would always greet me with a ‘Baaah’ whenever he saw me. ♥️
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The farm looks great Tonya! How have you been😀
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Hello there!
So nice to hear from you! Thank you so much. I’m fine. I hope things are going well for you! 😊
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