Each year, on the third Monday in February, we celebrate Presidents Day here in the United States. Officially the celebration of George Washington’s birthday, this day commemorates the service all who have served as President of the United States. When I think of a President, Leader, Prime Minister, King, Chief, or Ambassador I think of Success. In my opinion, these positions each signify hard work, ingenuity, and success. The people who hold these positions represent each of us as a collective and in turn represent our dreams and ambitions.
If you are a blogger, join us by answering our journal prompt each week on your own blog and linking up to our community journal post on Mondays. If you are not a blogger, why not start a blog today? We’re here to help get things rolling for you by providing you with weekly writing prompts and a community to read your posts and grow your blog traffic. The journal agenda for the year can be found HERE and the prompt for this week is as follows:
How do you perceive ingenuity? Where do you see ingenuity thriving today?
To determine how we perceive ingenuity we must first define what it is. Ingenuity includes all things that are inventive, clever, and imaginative skills and talents. I perceive ingenuity in Agriculture. I grew up on a farm in Southeastern Kentucky, smack in the middle of the Daniel Boone National Forest. Over the years (although not all in my lifetime) we have been the home of the local dairy, raised boiler hens, harvested tobacco, and bred Angus beef cattle. This May I graduate with a Bachelors Degree in Agricultural Economics. I see ingenuity thriving daily in Agriculture.
“God said I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die and dry his eyes and say maybe next year. I need somebody who can shape an axe handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of hay wire, feed sacks, and shoe scraps. Who, planting time and harvesting season, will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon and then paining from tractor back put in another 72 hours. So God made a farmer.” – Paul Harvey
I could be a bit bias toward agriculture, and realistically I probably am. I see ingenuity in agriculture though. I see ingenuity in the sunspots on my fathers back from years of cutting hay in full sun with the goal of filling an empty chicken house with more hay than we will ever need, just in case a neighbor has a rough winter. I see ingenuity in the homemade seeding machine that my grandfather rigged up – a machine that is ugly to the core but has never needed maintenance. I see ingenuity in the cluttered mess of engines, gears, hoses and wood scraps piled in the corner of our barn waiting for the time when we never knew we would need them. I see ingenuity daily in Agriculture. I see ingenuity in the eyes of our farmers.
With populations growing and food prices skyrocketing, our farmers are faced with a difficult task of determining just how they can produce enough of their crops to feed the world. I have full confidence in their ingenuity.
How do you perceive ingenuity? Where do you see ingenuity thriving today?
On your own blog, share with us where you see ingenuity thriving today and link up below. Be sure to mention in your post that you are linking up to the 2013 FOLK Journal Challenge and be sure to grab the journal challenge image at the top of this post. For a list of future, weekly writing prompts visit the 2013 FOLK Journaling Agenda.
Each week from now on we will also be highlighting a post that was linked up to the previous weeks prompt. I will be randomly selecting a post using random.org to feature. Last week we asked for you to share your favorite family photo and to tell the story behind the photo. Be sure to take a look at the posts that are linked up. Some great stories were shared. The feature post is:
- Credit: www.LifeInTheMicro.blogspot.com
- “Tip, tap, tip, tap, tip, tap goes the cane as it hits the speckled, taupe linoleum. Artwork adorns the walls but it goes unnoticed. Children in the halls on various missions stare with questions on their faces. Wearing her sunglasses and a blue t-shirt with the braille alphabet printed across the back, Momma makes her way to the classroom. Skipping happily toward us, G. and her friend, M., greet us. ”May I ask a question? Are your eyes open or shut?,” queries M.. Momma takes off her sunglasses to show two beautiful blue eyes. These eyes no longer register light nor do they follow noises as well as they once did, but they are a gorgeous, cornflower blue. Thus begins the question and answer session.” — [Read More at Life In The Micro...]
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I agrre with you in the agriculture thing. My father was a farmer too. Here in Spain farmers are like the last appreciated group. People just don’t see that they can live withou tv, a lawyer or an ipad, bit not without food.
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CRIS
Agriculture is a good one! I grew up in a family of farmers, too, and their is definitely a lot of ingenuity in that field.
For weeks I had planned to write about my nephews and brother-in-law and their farm. When they need a tool, they analyze what would work best and then go to the barn and make it out of parts they have kept from old machinery and past tool inventions. They amaze me.
I got sidetracked with another idea this morning, but Yes! To the American farmer I see bravo!
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