My job is simple: get around the fields and feed and shepherd the different flocks of ewes— dealing with any issues that arise.
First rule of shepherding: it’s not about you, it’s about the sheep and the land.
Second rule: you can’t win sometimes.
Third rule: shut up, and go and do the work.
~ James Rebanks, The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape.
Notes:
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The universal laws…amen.
Amen MImi. Shut up and get on with it 🙂
It looks so soft!!
Sounds just like my hubby: ‘Get ‘er done!’
yes.
Yes it does… Even although we might not want it to be so. 💛
The life of a shepherd…one can only imagine. But, the lesson…
Shouldn’t the first rule be, “it’s not about ewe?” 🙂
Wow, Good!
Old school. My favorite kind.
Yep…
Ah, that there were 3 pragmatic rules for my work! ;]
Laughing. True!