a dog-eared town

Calif. Peach Farmer Publishing Sixth Book
Here’s an interesting story about a farmer-philosopher.

Here are some excerpts from the book.

“When does an old limb have to go, to make room for new growth to come?” he asks, thinking about productivity, but also his own mortality as his father grows older and his own hair turns gray.

and

“My greatest fear,” he writes, “is that there is a generation with no hunger for memory, that whatever they find in a typical grocery store is good enough. Who’s going to demand a peach that they’ve never had?”

Ahhh, the disposable generation. He’s right. And I’m not sure how to answer him. But that’s probably why this would be a good book to read.