Green Hill Farm at sunset with Dash “Forgiveness is all about taking care of you, not the person you need to forgive. It’s about putting your desire to feel good before your desire to be right. It’s about taking responsibility for your own happiness instead of pretending it’s in somebody else’s hands. It’s all about owning your power by giving all your anger, resentment, and hurt the heave-ho.” ~Jen Sincero Wishing you a wonderful week!
Farmgirl posing before school on picture day Circa 1977 “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” ~Brené Brown “Never betray your values. Never betray yourself.” ~Walter Rieley (My dad) “This above all: to thine own self be true…” ~William Shakespeare […]
Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~Norman Vincent Peale Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. ~Charles R. Swindoll
“You are way too talented, gifted, and unusual to let anyone keep you from standing.” From the Film, Music and Lyrics
Photographs taken from Broadway Tower Worcestershire, England “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~Viktor E. Frankl
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.” ~Paul Klee Swiss Artist 1879-1940 I first saw this quote on a magnet in the gift shop at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. last October. I really liked the quote–enough to buy a magnet that I knew probably wouldn’t get any use. But, I wanted to […]
My name is Tonya, and I grew up on a 300-acre farm in rural Virginia that has been in my family for over 100 years. After graduating from college, receiving my master’s degree in speech and language pathology, and living and working in a small city for six years, I decided to return to the place of my childhood. Here, in this rural area, on this patch of green, where for four generations my family has farmed, gardened, and lived, I, too wanted to be a part of this continuity. As a fourth generation farmgirl, I have many interests that not only include, but also go beyond the basics of farming, gardening, sheep and chicken-keeping. It is all of this and more that I plan on sharing in this blog.
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