Six Generations of First Born Women

Today at 3 o'clock there will be a general work action. Every available person is to help. A field of corn must be harvested and there are a bunch (a gaggle, a swarm, a flock?) of ducks to pluck for dinner tomorrow. (I think since they are now dead ducks, we can refer to it as a pile of ducks).... Sign in to see full entry.

While I'm sitting in the breakfast room, writing this, Harti and someone else comes in to take away the big Sony color TV and VCR. They are taking it to the next little town, near Friedrichshof (FH), to show the townsfolk a film they made of a festival, something like an Oktoberfest, that the locals... Sign in to see full entry.

Learning to live in a group is a process few of us, beyond dealing with our entire extended family once a year around the Thanksgiving table, have ever attempted. Being a self assured, independent person all my life was something I prided myself on. The fact that I was in the middle of a commune on... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturdays are not as busy on Friedrichshof, just like at home. It's been very hot and sunny for a September in Austria, lucky for me. Everyone was saying what a cool and rainy summer it's been, so this weather is what should have been here in August. Wish I could go swimming. A small man-made lake... Sign in to see full entry.

Almost every man Theo introduces me to kisses the top of my hand. (In retrospect I think of Laura Bush and what an uninspired response she had to this same, rather charming, experience). I on the other hand see it as an opportunity to act out a different scene, as though my life is pure theater,... Sign in to see full entry.