![]() ![]() We need to see ourselves as protectors of the soil.” “Women, in particular, as bearers of life, tend to have different perspectives on food, earth and relationships, and we have this strong urge to share it with others. “I talk from who I am and speak from my own truth through the hats I wear: mother, writer, woman, wife and farmer,” Diffley says. Wisconsin has since adopted a similar organic mitigation plan. She also created an organic mitigation plan to protect the soils and certification of Minnesota organic farms. ![]() Like the soil sister she is, she fiercely worked to preserve the earth under her feet, the soil that with tender care gifted her and her community of customers with bountiful, healthy harvests. In Turn Here Sweet Corn, Diffley shares her dramatic story of creating a successful farm operation and the David-versus-Goliath battles she fights along the way, including successfully taking on Koch Industries, an corporate energy conglomerate that aimed to put a crude-oil pipeline on her land. Diffley now takes her mission of advocating for healthy food and soil to a new level with her inspiring memoir, Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). ![]() She’s a rock-star farmer who for more than 20 years ran Gardens of Eagan, located in Northfield, Minn., and one of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest. If soil had a sister, someone who passionately stood by and fought for its well-being at all times and at all costs, it would be Atina Diffley. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() Soon there was a pantheon of gods and figures from legend and myth: Hawkman ("an avatar of hawk-headed Horus"), the Flash ("the Greek god Hermes") and Captain Marvel, whose magic word, "Shazam," was an acronym: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury. Superman, "the personification of a thrusting industrial tomorrow," had a primal impact. As Morrison sees it, "archetyped, pop-mythic tales of superpowered heroes and villains" soared into our collective imaginations in an explosive fashion. This excellent survey of pop deity origins begins with "the ur-god and his dark twin," Superman and Batman. A Scottish playwright and comic book writer, Morrison (Arkham Asylum) traces the rise of superheroes from the 1940s golden age to the comics industry of today. ![]() ![]() It covers an auspicious time in Nin s life, from when she is about to publish her first book to her decision to leave Paris for New York. Edited and with an introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann, this celebrated first volume begins in the winter of 1931 and ends in the fall of 1934. Writing candidly of her marriages and affairs including those with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and author Henry Miller Nin presents a passionate and detailed record of a modern woman s journey of self-discovery. Confessional, scandalous, and thoroughly absorbing, her diaries became one of the most celebrated literary projects of the twentieth century. Born in France to Cuban parents, Anais Nin began keeping a diary at the age of eleven and continued the practice for the rest of her life. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. ![]() Bound in half cloth boards with titles present to the spine. ![]() Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys. ![]() DJ has shelf-wear present (chipping present to the crown of the DJ spine). The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 1 1931-1934. Signed and inscribed by Anais Nin on the FFEP. The Swallow Press and Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. ![]() |