Eggs, Pigs, Synchronicity
Two Saturdays in a row of me filling in for Amy at the Abingdon Farmers Market. I’ll likely be there tomorrow as well, so come see me. Amy will be back at the market next Saturday the 15th. Remember the farmers market hours are now 10:00 - noon.
We welcomed almost 30 pigs to the farm this week. With colder temperatures arriving and even colder temperatures on the way, putting down hay for bedding has been a more regular task.
Though all of our meat birds are in the freezer, we raised a group of egg laying chicks this summer that just started laying this week. We got our first egg on Monday. Then three; then five; then eight yesterday. We should be covered up with eggs in the coming weeks, so keep an eye on the online store or let us know if you want us to put your name on some for the upcoming deliveries.
Keeping the cows moving. We had a water scare Wednesday morning. No water at the barn. Which meant no water in the fields for the cows and pigs. Which also meant no water at the cabins which were both occupied. Bad feeling. With this fall being relatively dry, my initial fear was our water supply drying up. With our whole farm watered by a powerless gravity system from a developed spring back in the mountain, I get nervous when we go through dry spells. Though it hasn’t to my knowledge dried up completely, it has certainly slowed down in seasons. I am continually amazed and grateful for the miracle of fresh water constantly pouring out of the side of mountain over 2,000 feet above sea level. Fortunately the water supply of the spring was not the issue. After making the rounds, I found a water trough running over. It’s one I fixed not long ago, or at least attempted to. I got the trough cut off but have yet to fix it. Hopefully I can fix it better this time.
I cut and split three more loads of wood this week. Amy and the kids helped with the loading. Perfect wood cutting weather. I love it.
This week I listened to SYNCHRONICITY by C.G. Jung. I won’t lie, most of it went over my head, but it was on the fascinating topic of “meaningful coincidence.” I think we’ve all (or at least I have on numerous occasions) experienced an unexplainable aligning of the stars that can’t be written off as random. Like the one who put the stars in their place must’ve had a hand in lining them up for us such a specific moment in time and space as this. It’s too meaningful to be random. If it’s not a random coincidence, it must be arranged. Arranged by who or what? And what is the relationship to the arrangement? This is not a religious book, but I would sum up the answer to this book’s questions with “the hand of God.” Our relationship with God is the relationship between us and the synchronicity described by Jung.
“The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle 20’s when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or runs. What I found were coincidences which were connected so meaningfully that their chance concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.”
“Synchronicity, therefore, means the simultaneous occurrence of a certain physic state with one or more external events which appear as meaningful parallels to the momentary subjective state and in certain cases vice versa.”
“Synchronicity, therefore, consists of two factors: A) an unconscious image comes into consciousness either directly, that is to say literally, or indirectly—symbolized or suggested in the form of a dream, idea, or premonition. B) an objective situation coincides with this content. The one is as puzzling as the other. How does the unconscious image arise? And how the coincidence?”
“… regarded the coordination of the physic and the physical as an act of God, of some principle standing outside empirical nature… Either there are physical processes which cause physic happenings or there is a preexistent psyche which organizes matter.”
“Meaningful coincidences are thinkable as pure chance, but the more they multiply and the greater and more exact the correspondence is, the more their probability syncs and their unthinkability increases until they can no longer be regarded as pure chance but for lack of a causal explanation, have to be thought of as meaningful arrangements… Their inexplicability is not due to the fact that the cause in unknown but to the fact a cause is not even thinkable in intellectual terms.”
Have a good week.
Will