Big shout out today to Sharon’s sister Laura. She is family, once-removed. She’s also a helluva fine writer. So if you don’t click the link, here, and read her short essay in honor of freedom this July the 4th (it’s called “Cows On The Lam”) – well, then brother, it’s your loss. And I don’t mean maybe.
Foretaste of freedom…
Five heifers from my sister’s farm recently went on the lam. The jail breakers are young, just weaned. They don’t even eat grain yet, but they’re brave and bold and maybe highly incentivized. How’d they escape the pasture? They didn’t jump the fence (though I’ve seen this). They didn’t find a break in the fence. They went under the fence at a stream….