Mother Jones - Comments for "Out of Iowa"

After 40 years in the Desert

...I moved back to the family farm in Iowa.

After 40 Years in Phoenix I left Boeing and came home... to be around family and the land, dramatic weather changes, the stillness as the wind dies down, the sweet smell of the air, the beauty of crops in the fields, the turning of fall into harvest time...and a wave and smile of a cousin as he roars by on a rebuilt Case 830 on his way to another chore on the horizon. I look up from brush-clearing or cleaning up around the windbreaks, I lean against my Oliver 1650 and take in the moment and wave back.

2 years now and I have never regreted for one second coming home. Oh yeah...I'm a woman, close to retirement, yet I feel back in charge of my life and loving it in IOWA!

Most of the photos above are far removed from the Iowa I live in!

Completely agree. I've lived

Completely agree. I've lived in Iowa my whole life, and the places I've lived could have been the scene of any Kevin Smith movie, without changing a word.

Except 'skeeball'.

I don't think anyone in Iowa has a clue what that could be.

Out of Iowa

Two or three very beautiful photos here. The "drain" described has been going on for 30+ years., and the take on this well-worn story was not very illuminating. In fact, the whole thing was pretty dark and included way more guns and Amish than I remember as a former long-time Iowan. Seems like an East-Coast, vegetarian tourist's expose' most of the time. There is a lighter, more positive, and more progressive side to the state, which was almost completely missing. Looks more like the worst parts of Appalachia, not Iowa.