questions and peace

Last night, we met an author who grows much of her own food, only uses solar for power, lives about twenty minutes from the nearest road, and raises black kunekune pigs. She says her newest book 'The Price of Bacon' is about the way of life on the land. Birth. Life. Death. Renewal.
The first piece of news this morning: China's largest meat processor uses an illegal chemical to make their pork more lean, for more profit.
The quote for the day, from an activist-poet-priest: 'And then there is the question of prayer, which consists for the most part in insisting that God do for us what we are unwilling to do for one another.'
Maybe these people, these stories, and the disintegrating head of the cow in my yard can bring some questions and some peace.
Maybe that is why I write.
Photo: The cow died accidentally, after eating a poisonous plant / New Zealand
The Price of Bacon by Jeanette Aplin, Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan, and pork in China