Allegro Confusione. That’s what Carl’s mother dubbed their home when she was raising him and his three siblings. I find it is an apt name? As we prepare to jump into the revisioning and rebuilding of Allegro Confusione, I get that too familiar feeling in my chest because major renovations are out of sync with my values. True or false?

A friend of ours midwifed ten baby goats into the world two weeks ago. This weekend filled up with another visit to baby goat land—waves of them leaping and cavorting on rocks while some of the visitors brushed Maybelle, the resident dairy cow.