"All roads lead to a farmstead."

Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog [avrotor.blogspot.com]
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday [www.pbs.gov.ph]

Farmstead, aerial photo by the author, circa 1976

It is likened to the prairies of North America,
      the Fertile Crescent, the Nile's delta;
the Andean plateau, the pampas of Argentina;
      this tiny nook somewhere in Isabela.

I have travelled far and wide on this single road
     with "all roads leading to it," here and abroad
with the seasons, creatures born and growing old,
      and tell the universal story of the world.~