Today I'm flying back from Los Angeles after doing the Joe Rogan Experience program yesterday.  You can see the program today; it's up.

 Like local-oriented direct-market farms around the country, we're dealing with a tsunami of  interest.  Suddenly everyone wants our meat, poultry, and eggs.  Where were they last year and the year before?

As people respond to the shock of the pandemic, it's interesting to hear their perspectives about pre-pandemic days. One that caught my attention this week in a newspaper column was an interview of a bunch of people responding to the shock of the whole thing.

Went to church yesterday for the first time in 9 weeks.  Masks on one side; non-masks on the other.  Every other row of chairs empty.  Families sitting together, which of course kept the teens from sitting in a mob.  Both masks and unmasked were admonished to love and respect each other.  Amen.

May I shamelessly ask you to help me get a book on the media radar by pre-ordering and lumping those numbers together?

My mentor-friend in Germany and I have been corresponding on issues regarding our overall state of affairs and future gatherings in Europe post-covid…

Saturday I did my first Zoom conference.  If you watch my speaking itinerary, you would know that I was scheduled to be in  West Virginia for a Food Freedom Rally sponsored by Roy Ramey, who is running this year for West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture.

Yesterday I did a podcast with Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie on Free the People and the discussion turned to his 5-year-old bill the Prime Act. It has not gotten traction until now. In the last ten days, he's picked up 18 co-sponsors. That's pretty dramatic for a bill that couldn't get a handful for 5 years.

Words are fascinating things. As a lifelong word artist, I'm intrigued by phrases and word choice. Lots of times a seemingly insignificant word indicates a host of unspoken background. It's like a curtain opening a crack and suddenly you realize an entire dramatic production is being played out behind the curtain.

Few things indicate spring like asparagus. It shows up when it feels right. It doesn't consult a calendar. It doesn't ask for special legislation or grant money to operate. It just pokes through the soil and sends up its beautiful spire when its intelligence and data gathering services confirm: "today is the day."

For all its inconvenience and maddening unknowns, the silver lining to the coronavirus is a collective understanding of some new things.  It has brought into sharper focus new opportunities and perhaps new enthusiasm for healthy change.  Here are some things that seem to be permeating our cultural conscience, perhaps for the first time.

Dr. Judy Mikovits, a long time molecular biologist says wearing a face mask reactivates your own coronavirus and is exactly the wrong thing to do.