Just a quick post on what is going on in my mind/heart/thoughts/prayers -
I want to give away the pencil
and throw away the eraser.
God, help me to write my life in ink
regardless of how meny many mistakes I make and people see.
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I realize that this “comment box” might not be the most appropriate place to leave the message I am about to write, but I was unsuccessful in my attempt to email you through your website. I hope you don’t mind!
My name is Lauren and I’m a Master’s student in Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University. This semester, as part of a course on ecofeminism that I’m taking, myself and a classmate incubated six chicken eggs; while all six eggs developed chicks to some degree, only one made it all the way to term and produced a beautiful black chick (we don’t yet know if it is a hen or a rooster). The chick is about two weeks old now and in a few weeks we will have to find a new home for it (both of us live in small apartments and can’t raise the chick forever, unfortunately). Therefore, I was wondering if you or someone you know might be willing to “adopt” this chick and give it a good home. We’re trying to find small(er) family farms or lands that will treat the chick with kindness and compassion. While we’re well aware that the chick might ultimately be eaten, we’d like it to live a wholesome life beforehand and be killed humanely — not mistreated by a large factory farm. Any advice or help you might be able to provide will be greatly appreciated.
A final note: I enjoyed looking at the pictures of your land and animals on your site. Everything looks so beautiful and serene!
Any place is the place to give a chicken a good home! Glad you wrote (and for others reading this I did answer Lauren on private email regarding the chicken adoption situation).
I’m glad you enjoyed the pictures of Beulah Land and hope you’ll come back for another visit later.
Debbie
March 19, 2009 at 08:49 am
Hello!
I realize that this “comment box” might not be the most appropriate place to leave the message I am about to write, but I was unsuccessful in my attempt to email you through your website. I hope you don’t mind!
My name is Lauren and I’m a Master’s student in Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University. This semester, as part of a course on ecofeminism that I’m taking, myself and a classmate incubated six chicken eggs; while all six eggs developed chicks to some degree, only one made it all the way to term and produced a beautiful black chick (we don’t yet know if it is a hen or a rooster). The chick is about two weeks old now and in a few weeks we will have to find a new home for it (both of us live in small apartments and can’t raise the chick forever, unfortunately). Therefore, I was wondering if you or someone you know might be willing to “adopt” this chick and give it a good home. We’re trying to find small(er) family farms or lands that will treat the chick with kindness and compassion. While we’re well aware that the chick might ultimately be eaten, we’d like it to live a wholesome life beforehand and be killed humanely — not mistreated by a large factory farm. Any advice or help you might be able to provide will be greatly appreciated.
A final note: I enjoyed looking at the pictures of your land and animals on your site. Everything looks so beautiful and serene!
Thanks!
Lauren Volpe
LVolpe@twu.edu
March 20, 2009 at 07:51 am
Any place is the place to give a chicken a good home! Glad you wrote (and for others reading this I did answer Lauren on private email regarding the chicken adoption situation).
I’m glad you enjoyed the pictures of Beulah Land and hope you’ll come back for another visit later.
Debbie