Our Pigs

Chores

Ryan Kraeger

When I was a kid, I hated doing farm chores. They were the same every day, and they took time away from the things I really wanted to be doing, a.k.a., reading books and daydreaming.

Now, I love the days when I get to do chores. The simple repetition, the ritual of caring for the animals, the rhythm of their seasons and cycles; there is something almost liturgical about it.

I love how every day baby is excited to see the pigs. She just points at them and get excited over their pigness.

It is good that there are such things as pigs.

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Published by Ryan Kraeger

"I only remember the very first part of the book where he described the man of steel and velvet and I remember the deep chord that phrase struck. I remember the image I had of a hand of living steel wearing a velvet glove, a hand that could crush or caress, strike a killing blow or wipe away tears, lift mountains or cradle an infant. The rest of the book was an afterthought." From an essay about Aubrey Andelin's "Man of Steel and Velvet".

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