“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor.”
Anton Chekov-The Cherry Orchard
Oh, the parallels of this story to my life, the property on which Illahe sits is an old cherry orchard, I have a daughter named Anya and she is a virtuous and strong young woman much like the character in the play. The perpetual and endless labor of working the land. Clawing one finger hold at a time toward the top of the lower middle class........maybe some parallels are lost there, the aristocratic land holdings and such. I'm happy to be much more the serf that bought the cherry orchard type. But I don't want to cut it down just yet. Too many harvests left in this lifetime.
Anya and I have been busy with the harvest, We setup in the shade of the cherry trees and thank the gods for some cooler weather! That's a stroke of luck I wasn't counting on, since it's been such a hot summer.
Keep checking back because the list is coming soon!
Cheers,
Mark Akimoff
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