http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/ Personal website of author Doug Fine Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:15:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1175 TENA BRASS Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:31:11 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1175 FROM A MANDOLIN PLAYING, BLUEGRASS LOVING MOUNTAIN GIRL OF THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS OF VIRGINIA . YOU HAVE NOW FOUND MY VERSION OF NIRVANA.(THE PLACE NOT THE BAND.) GOATS, ROSES AND JOHN PRINE,WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK FOR. FROM A MANDOLIN PLAYING, BLUEGRASS LOVING MOUNTAIN GIRL OF THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS OF VIRGINIA . YOU HAVE NOW FOUND MY VERSION OF NIRVANA.(THE PLACE NOT THE BAND.) GOATS, ROSES AND JOHN PRINE,WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK FOR.

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1193 OrgoCowboy Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:53:17 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1193 Not much. I find myself just giving thanks and hoping I deserve this bounty of beauty and happiness. If you check in again, let me know if you think it's easier to learn mandolin or banjo...it is time, i think, to start organic jamming. I've been writing a lot of songs over the last year. Thanks for the note. Not much. I find myself just giving thanks and hoping I deserve this bounty of beauty and happiness. If you check in again, let me know if you think it’s easier to learn mandolin or banjo…it is time, i think, to start organic jamming. I’ve been writing a lot of songs over the last year. Thanks for the note.

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1219 Wesley Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:31:05 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1219 Doug - I found you through a NPR link. Just want to let you know how much I enjoy reading your blog. I find them informative and funny. I can't wait to hear what happens next. ~Wesley from Atlanta, GA Doug - I found you through a NPR link. Just want to let you know how much I enjoy reading your blog. I find them informative and funny. I can’t wait to hear what happens next. ~Wesley from Atlanta, GA

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1227 OrgoCowboy Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:39:36 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1227 Awesome. Thanks a lot. Luckily, life is so wonderfully weird and inspiring here that there's never any shortage of content. Awesome. Thanks a lot. Luckily, life is so wonderfully weird and inspiring here that there’s never any shortage of content.

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1305 foodislove Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:12:39 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1305 Hello, I found out about you through my local Slow Food chapter. I guess you'll be here in Colorado April 8th. I am enjoying your blog and inspired, not only by your desire to see if you can leave a smaller footprint and still feel comfortable but your willingness to chuck modern life and the rat race and really go for your dream. Fantastic! Hello,
I found out about you through my local Slow Food chapter. I guess you’ll be here in Colorado April 8th. I am enjoying your blog and inspired, not only by your desire to see if you can leave a smaller footprint and still feel comfortable but your willingness to chuck modern life and the rat race and really go for your dream. Fantastic!

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1306 OrgoCowboy Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:17:09 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1306 Boy, that sure is nice to hear, since I'm so busy doing interviews and preparing for the "Farewell, My Subaru" book tour that I feel deeply immersed in the rat race at the moment. And literally -- last night my cat Robin crunched a pack rat half her size in the kitchen and I took it quite metaphorically. In truth, I'm excited as can be about the book's release, but it will truly be a transition to, you know, be around more than two people and a couple of goats at a time. Boy, that sure is nice to hear, since I’m so busy doing interviews and preparing for the “Farewell, My Subaru” book tour that I feel deeply immersed in the rat race at the moment. And literally — last night my cat Robin crunched a pack rat half her size in the kitchen and I took it quite metaphorically. In truth, I’m excited as can be about the book’s release, but it will truly be a transition to, you know, be around more than two people and a couple of goats at a time.

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1391 todd Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:40:11 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1391 Love the book. I am half way through. I think it is great Love the book. I am half way through. I think it is great

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1396 Meri Short Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:08:36 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1396 I just finished Farewell, My Subaru. I bought it this weekend and fell in love by page 4. I read it cover to cover in a day. Thank you so much! It was a great and funny read!! I look forward to reading more posts as life grows for you on the ranch. I just finished Farewell, My Subaru. I bought it this weekend and fell in love by page 4. I read it cover to cover in a day. Thank you so much! It was a great and funny read!! I look forward to reading more posts as life grows for you on the ranch.

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1425 Mara Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:43:56 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1425 I have to disagree that there are no mandolins or banjos in the suburbs. Many urban / suburban areas have thriving folk music communities; the DC area has the House of Musical Traditions in Tacoma Park and the Birchmere, for instance, and a number of folk music groups that meet for informal jam sessions. When people migrated to this area from the Appalachians and other places with strong folk music traditions, they brought those traditions with them. Some folks growing up in the suburbs (like me) learned to love folk music b/c a parent played it. I have to disagree that there are no mandolins or banjos in the suburbs. Many urban / suburban areas have thriving folk music communities; the DC area has the House of Musical Traditions in Tacoma Park and the Birchmere, for instance, and a number of folk music groups that meet for informal jam sessions. When people migrated to this area from the Appalachians and other places with strong folk music traditions, they brought those traditions with them. Some folks growing up in the suburbs (like me) learned to love folk music b/c a parent played it.

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1428 OrgoCowboy Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:18:31 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1428 Mara- thanks for that note. Actually I wasn't saying that people don't play music from other ecosystems, I just believe that such music doesn't develop there. Like local food, music evolves naturally in its home ecosystem. And like even yummy food, it can be imported elsewhere. I am delighted that rural music is enjoying popularity in suburbs (and David Grisman, after all, is from New Jersey). What I've learned from rural living after growing up on concrete, though, is that high lonesome mountain music would no more develop in the burbs than belly dancing caravan music would develop in London, or gangsta rap in the rainforests of Peru. Mara- thanks for that note. Actually I wasn’t saying that people don’t play music from other ecosystems, I just believe that such music doesn’t develop there. Like local food, music evolves naturally in its home ecosystem. And like even yummy food, it can be imported elsewhere. I am delighted that rural music is enjoying popularity in suburbs (and David Grisman, after all, is from New Jersey). What I’ve learned from rural living after growing up on concrete, though, is that high lonesome mountain music would no more develop in the burbs than belly dancing caravan music would develop in London, or gangsta rap in the rainforests of Peru.

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1470 David@The Good Human Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:57:18 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1470 You have no idea how glad I am to have found your site - what an inspiration for what my wife and I are planning to start this July in, funny enough, New Mexico. I wonder where in NM you are? We are moving to Taos (well, the outskirts). Anyway, music - you should check out Ryan Bingham...brings me right down out of the craziness and makes me feel "whole". Love the site, plan to go read the rest of it, and maybe will see you in NM! You have no idea how glad I am to have found your site - what an inspiration for what my wife and I are planning to start this July in, funny enough, New Mexico. I wonder where in NM you are? We are moving to Taos (well, the outskirts). Anyway, music - you should check out Ryan Bingham…brings me right down out of the craziness and makes me feel “whole”. Love the site, plan to go read the rest of it, and maybe will see you in NM!

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1479 David Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:53:15 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1479 Doug-buy the mandolin, it travels better Doug-buy the mandolin, it travels better

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1495 Nelle Greene Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:31:29 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1495 WOW, Doug. I was reading my weekly newsletter from Organic Consumers Org., and who do I see in their Book of the Week . . .? Doug Fine! It looks like "Not Really An Alaskan Man" was not the last to be heard from you.It's good to see that you are doing well . . . and I am envious of your new lifestyle. I will tell everyone at Mountain Market (Haines) to check out your website. Best of luck to you, and your new family. WOW, Doug. I was reading my weekly newsletter from Organic Consumers Org., and who do I see in their Book of the Week . . .? Doug Fine! It looks like “Not Really An Alaskan Man” was not the last to be heard from you.It’s good to see that you are doing well . . . and I am envious of your new lifestyle. I will tell everyone at Mountain Market (Haines) to check out your website. Best of luck to you, and your new family.

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1497 Kay-Tree Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:45:17 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1497 Doug, It's wonderful to feel all the strings pulling each and every one of us on this site, and out there, in your direction. Either quickly or slowly, I think we can all make it. My family is in suburban NJ, but luckily on 4 acres in an Agricultural zone. We have chickens and gardens. Your book will be a great addition to our lives. Can't wait to read it. You are in my thoughts as we all evolve. Doug, It’s wonderful to feel all the strings pulling each and every one of us on this site, and out there, in your direction. Either quickly or slowly, I think we can all make it. My family is in suburban NJ, but luckily on 4 acres in an Agricultural zone. We have chickens and gardens. Your book will be a great addition to our lives. Can’t wait to read it. You are in my thoughts as we all evolve.

]]> http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1499 OrgoCowboy Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:07:11 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/2008/03/01/the-organic-song-in-my-head/#comment-1499 Kay-Tree -- I loved that post because in reality anyone can produce food -- even in cities (Hmong refugees in St. Paul, MN started doing amazing things in pavement cracks the minute they got their bearings). I really don't think there should be zoning to prevent home ag and livestock. Why lock folks into supermarkets? Kay-Tree — I loved that post because in reality anyone can produce food — even in cities (Hmong refugees in St. Paul, MN started doing amazing things in pavement cracks the minute they got their bearings). I really don’t think there should be zoning to prevent home ag and livestock. Why lock folks into supermarkets?

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