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By Chip Richards
"I was in between creative projects and feeling the need to do something
 more dynamic with my energy than sitting at the computer sending and 
receiving emails, so I followed an impulse to a local biodynamic farm 
and got a job picking apples during the last six weeks of harvest. The 
notion was quite romantic initially...I'd spend my days wandering the 
orchard rows connecting with my Muse, and my evenings writing to my 
heart's content.  The first few days were pretty exciting --driving 
tractors, climbing trees, embracing the daily challenge of filling three
 big apple crates with 2,000 apples each before sunset. But by day 
four...I'm pretty sure I hated it." Over the following days and weeks 
Chip Richards would experience a series of quiet transformations...
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