A Simpler Time

Nearly everything we know these days we are told by others and have not physically experienced ourselves. Back on the farm, a few generations ago, sons and daughters learned from their mother and father how to do what they needed to do in order to stay alive and maybe make a life that is a little bit better than just getting by. But they learned all that from experiencing it in their body. The father put the son behind a plow when he was old enough to successfully guide it through the earth, he put his son on a horse when he was old enough not to fall off of it (and maybe he still did a few times), he taught him to plant seed, to harvest the crop, and to protect himself from wild animals, as well as wild humans who tried to take away from him what was his.