Happy friday!
We are leaving this morning for Chile, returning on Sunday. We'll take a short plane ride to Tacna, Peru, then a bus across the border to the town of Arica. This afternoon we will be going to the consulate there to get our permanent visas, which are finally ready. Arica is on the beach, and we hear it's very nice, so we'll post some pictures when we return.
Two things before we go:
First, I am compelled to link a great article which my brother sent me. It is fascinating, a pretty important piece of legislation which won't make the political sound bites but is as much an issue of life as anything else we might vote on.
NY Times
MAGAZINE April 22, 2007 The Way We Live Now: You Are What You Grow By MICHAEL POLLAN Will this year’s farm bill make us fatter and sicker?
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Secondly, the other night we took Noah out to the Plaza de Armas to feed the birds again, and let him walk around on his own. Did he ever! He saw all the open space and ran! He liked the birds too, and we got some video that's on youtube. I'm no videographer, and it's not the most exciting footage, but we still think it's fun. Hope you enjoy.
Have a great weekend!
1 comment:
Thanks for posting the NY Times article on the Farm Bill. Coming from a small farming family, I appreciated the writer's thorough explanation of the current situation. With current subsidies in place, most family farms either have to 'play the game' to survive, are being forced out of the market, or are forced into the market of real estate- selling their land to 'developers' that create cookie cutter subdivisions (or lease land to the big farmers). Meanwhile, the larger farm corporations continue to reap the benefits of this backwards system.
At least in NC (my home state), politicians pay GREAT attention to the farm market (largely driven by the bigger farming companies). Bonny
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