Olive Farmer of Attica

✦ Your Soul Summary ✦

You tended twenty acres of olive groves on the rocky slopes outside Athens, a form of farming that required more patience than most — an olive tree planted by your grandfather would not reach full production until your children were adults. You went to the city occasionally to hear the philosophers speak and found them interesting but somewhat disconnected from the specific realities you lived with, the very concrete problem of what to do when the trees sicken and the harvest fails. Philosophy that could not account for drought was incomplete philosophy.