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Update ~ Spring 2009
We're on the Big Island and at last we're genuinely starting to get settled. Orchid Isle Farms is now officially the name of our little organic farmstead. The new website is up and currently under construction. Soon it will have our annual planting lists and all sorts of information. Please e-mail us and visit the site: orchidislefarms.com
pacifichris.com has also been launched ~ Writing, Humor and Art. Last but not least, it Christopher Bakery will be back in a couple of years time in new incarnations. The freindship and requests for information have been wonderfully overwhelming. Plans are now firm for a cookbook and too much has gone into CB to not to have come to life here in Hawaii. ...thanks to so much help and interest from everyone.
More from Hawai`i very soon,
Chris
What's next? ...HK Farm Hawai'i
Photos & Travel Blog - Online Beginning July 15th 2008
Friends,
Thank you! So many of you have become so much more than customers and clients.
As of June, CB has been sold and is now under new ownership. Our final farmers' market is Saturday, June 15th, 2008. In July, CB's former facilities will be strictly commercial and no longer organic.
My mom and I are off to begin our small organic and self-sustaining farm on the Big Island of Hawai'i. The poem that follows by Robert Frost is special to both of us. We both grew-up very near his farm in Derry, NH.
Many, many people have speculated about this poem being optimistic or foreboding. Optimistic - implying one road is better than the other or ominous because the reader never learns the outcome. Frost himself said this was a "very, very tricky poem".
It is speculated that Frost came to write this poem after many visits and many walks on a country road with an English friend who had unfortunately lost a leg in WWI. His friend never stopped questioning his initial noble decision to enter the war.
For me, this poem embodies a mind-set that I strive to live up to. "Be as self-aware, and conscious, as possible. Be responsible and accountable for your actions. Humbly realize you ultimately have no control over a great many things. And, most of all don't be a 'victim' - make the best of it!"
Salut mes amis!
Mindfully,
Chris
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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