Last week while riding through rural Indiana on our way from Chicago to Notre Dame (stay tuned for next week for Notre Dame Trip Week to hear all about that!) a great song came on the radio.
It was perfect timing---looking out the window, for as far as I could see were farm houses, cattle, and rolling fields of corn stalks. It was beautiful. When the guy on the radio started singing aboutt farming, I knew I'd have to blog about it.
The guy was James Wesley and his new song is called "Real." He sings about how reality shows are so different from real life. (Ironic....I did a blog about that a couple of weeks ago!) One of his examples is about agriculture.
The guy was James Wesley and his new song is called "Real." He sings about how reality shows are so different from real life. (Ironic....I did a blog about that a couple of weeks ago!) One of his examples is about agriculture.
Where I live, housewives don't act like that
And the survivors are farmers in John Deere hats
Our amazin' race is beatin' the check
Prayin' that the bank ain't ran it through yet
Real, like too much rain fallin' from the sky
Real, like the drought that came around here last July
It's the damn boll weevils and the market and the weeds, the prayer they're sayin' when they plant the seeds
And the chance they take to bring us our next meal
I call that real
I couldn't have said it better myself. Farming is hard work. It's unpredictable and sometimes scary and can seem unrewarding. But you know what? The people who are lucky enough to live this way of life would probably tell you that they wouldn't trade it for anything. And America should be thankful that they think that way and work so hard to put food on our tables.
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