Grandpa used to take me for long walks through our fields and talk to me about the land and the soil and the crops when I was young, petros. It was through him that I came to have some understanding of the connection between man and the land. My sisters and I grew up working on the land as we didn't have any brothers. We did everything that we could to help my Dad from running the tractors to driving the combine, trucks, grain augers and levelling the grain inside the granaries. We were given time off school to help with the seeding and the harvesting. The memory of driving a grain truck across field's flooded by the light of the immense harvest moon is one I still cherish. It was at times like that that I truly felt a part of the land.
