Description: Help to Wholeness - "Spirit, Soul and Body"
Help to Wholeness – "Spirit, Soul and Body"
My fascination with “old country barns” sitting on a beautiful landscape runs pretty deep. My visit to my home state of North Carolina in the “tobacco belt” of the state really stirred it up again as I rode the long and winding roads. I think I finally understand the fascination with old barns. They represent the days of old when life supposedly was simpler and slower but more manually difficult. There were no instant messages, social media, uber eats or cell phones. Technology was represented with “maybe”
Barns played a major role in the livelihood of farmers, including my family. Tobacco barns once numbered a half million and were fixtures on farms across the state of North Carolina. Today, only about 50,000 still stand, vestiges of the tobacco industry, deteriorating reminders of the leaves’ influence on our culture. Barn locations may look random, but in fact were carefully considered for efficiency, namely proximity to human labor and mule-drawn carts when the “cropping,” or harvesting, was underway. bar