The farmer and his animals

Motivated and inspired by 'Animal Farm' and Peter Armstrong from Grown and Grazed, Comboyne. Background music (Yamada Yutaka's ここではないどこか: Vinland Saga)

The farmer’s newly fixed fence posts had split again.

Yet another fence post… 

As a result, three missing heifers this week.

Last week, two of the mares had escaped. 

It was an unexpectedly rainy week, which was good… But the fence posts had gotten loose and the horses took advantage. 

And the week before, a fox had killed a dozen of the chickens. 

But this was life. 

The farmer did his best to set up solid infrastructure. 

To be preventative than interventional. 

But life keeps finding its loop holes. 

The rat that gnaws through the wires when he least expects, causing a blackout. 

Or the damn weather!

You may think… How frustrating… How depressing… 

“The flea in the jar theory; the invisible lid!” The farmer had naively thought once upon a time. That was over a decade ago. 

Through the years though, the farmer learnt… Such is life. 

The very animals that he keeps alive, keeps him alive. 

He tries to create order through rules and boundaries. Visible and invisible. 

But who is he, compared to the great circle of life. 

For all that he really knew was to just keep going.