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There are times when research is research. When that really important job you have to do is something you’d much rather be doing than anything else. And the best part is, technically, it’s work. You know, research.

I’m visiting a salt marsh farm in Essex, Mass., this week to meet an inspiring farmer/potter/mother/artist/person in general. (This was confirmed when Daphne told me today that she doesn’t really do the cell phone thing. That’s an indication of fresh air. By choice.)

The project is a book called Green Acres, co-branded by John Deere and published by Quarry. I’m going to meet Daphne’s five sheep, see how hay from the salt marshes makes a perfect garden blanket that wards off cold winter, and feel how the land can change a person, create a life that’s meaningful, fruitful, natural — how relationships with the trees and mud and even horse doo are more real and fulfilling than some of the more mechanical agreements we make with modern life. Stress, noise, 24/7, E.O.D., name your acronym for right-here-right-now. That’s the day I know. And I’m ready to step in some doo.

So there you have it. If research stinks, I’m O.K. with it.

I’m more than O.K.


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