I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but if I were to venture to that end I’d put keeping a daily journal at the top of my list of goals to persevere. My exposure to daily journaling was strictly from perusing the pages of a journal kept on the dining-room table of my grandfather’s house by his caretaker, then called a “housekeeper” or “maid.” She was a woman in her eighth decade named Minnie St. Louis. Her daily journal entries included a weather summary with the high and low temperatures along with wind speed and precipitation experienced in eastern Marathon County, Wisconsin. She and my grandfather lived on the farm he once worked. She didn’t hesitate to use the word “gloomy” to describe a day when the sun didn’t shine or “bright” when it did.
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Greg Galbraith owned and operated for 30 years a grazing-based dairy farm in central Wisconsin, until selling it to another couple who continues to operate an organic grass-based dairy. He’s an agrarian writer who’s involved in projects promoting the environmental and social benefits of an agricultural landscape dedicated to the functional permanent cover that managed pasture provides.
