Growing a Farmer

Although book's don't easily pull me in, this book naturally did with its clear didactic sentences and elaborate use of vocabulary. It seemed fairly like a simple and easy to read tale of a young deft entrepreneur. There is something incredible within the idea of being as fearless and daring as he while everything working itself out in the end. I quickly related his tale as a mix of The Secret with hints of Thoreau's transcendentalism and reminded me of Earnest Hemmingway's Old Man and The Sea. One of my favorite quotes within the short novel that I believe sets the tone of alacrity quickly stated at the beginning of thew novel is:

  "Although I would have greatly preferred the idyllic family life that I saw on the sitcoms of the era, it was this isolation that contributed to and created my character. Books were my friends, my inspiration, my mentors. No one encouraged me, yet no one corrected my outrageous and unrealistic views of the world." 

My favorite chapters of this novel are the second and third.  I am amazed how Kurt is able to manifest everything he ever  has wanted. He lives life without boundaries or expectations. Because of this he is fearless and always eager to learn. He goes above and beyond to read and always educating himself and learning anything he can. With the third chapter,  I am amazed how under appreciated honey is and the labor it takes bees to produce it. Like Kurt, I too agree that "the sum total of labor that goes into the making of honey by the bees is incomprehensible to me. ” And it's not just with bees. It's with produce. It's with the garments of clothes we wear. We don't really think about the amount of labor it takes  for someone to make the car we drive or even think about how we have access to clean purified water. 

Like Thoreau and Hemmingway, I believe Kurt is rather humbling and reminds readers to have a certain level of consciousness and gratitude.