Wormhole

#3 – Growing up with Dirt

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My grandfather (ca. 1884-1956) was the youngest of eight sons born to a general in the German Reich’s army. He had fled Germany alone just before World War I. In his early 40’s he married my grandmother who was 18 and in 1933 my father, was born. In 1938 they purchased the farm I grew … Read more

#2 – American Farm Boy Rides Herd in Tokyo

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Worm herds, that is. I grew up on a farm in the 60’s. I enjoyed countless hours riding horseback in the surrounding mountains, but I dreamed of living in the city where the streets were paved. Skateboards just don’t roll on gravel roads. 50 years later I find myself living in Tokyo, but skateboards have … Read more

#1 – Redworms

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The unseen farm animals I grew up in the 1960s on a farm with sheep, goats, horses, cows, a dog, and countless cats. In those days our family had a gender-based division of labor, where my three sisters did housework while my brother and I did outside chores. I wouldn’t be caught dead washing dishes … Read more