At dusk, as the last light shines over the back pasture, Red goes out to get the old sheep who are grazing in the pasture. Two of three of them cannot keep up, and he leaves them behind to take their own time. The others trot back into the pasture, towards the shelter where they will spend the night. The sheep Red found fell down again, and she may be near the end of her time. Red has brought some rituals back to the farm. Rituals and chores are the rythyms of a farm, the heartbeat.
10
July
Bringing In The Old Sheep
by Jon Katz