{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"46, 47","description":"Somewhere in the development of the human species we learned to use tools. There is a great scene in the move 2001: A Space Odyssey that imagines the moment when our primordial ancestors learned to use a hammer. In my development as a farmer on Grace Farms, I have somehow regressed to just before the point in time when human beings learned to use tools. In trying to authentically develop a place where food can be grown, my enthusiasm for avoiding contamination of any kind   created a sort of blindness to my own stupidity in how I am accomplishing simple tasks. A good friend of mine \u2013 who works with me on the farm \u2013 illustrated this by showing how a project that had taken me 9 hours could be completed in 30 minutes. What felt virtuous just minutes before his tutorial on using tools \u2013 immediately became evidence of my stubborn habit of taking the long, hard way to learning my lessons. ","author_name":"A Well Run Life","author_url":"http:\/\/awellrunlife.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"