Ruralrose said:
You can never predict what the future has in store so it is very important to be as satisfied with your personal life as possible. Who cares what it looks like? Who cares about your position in the the community? What matters is being so happy and healthy you want to live a long time. Staying at home affords you this, it makes it so you don't need so much money all the time. Life isn't the "struggle against" as it is in monetary society, but in our natural state a "flow with" instead, which brings great relief from worry. Your children are going to learn so much from the experience of the change and how their life is improved, and yours, in itself is reason enough. Education is education. Maybe it is silly to expect "higher learning" and the "corporate ladder" to success to be there, who knows? You are depressed because your inner self is screaming, get me out of here please let me live the life I was put on the earth to be. That is to nourish your body and soul with pleasures of nature. They are unseen to the monetary world, but like love sustain happiness, joy and bliss. Peace
People may believe that homesteaders hibernate in leisure through the winter but just as you continue to earn money to buy food for your family, we continue to put food by and produce what we can at home. Last week since my apples were going soft, as they do this time of year, I made a batch of apple sauce. By the end of the week we will have bottled our wine and vinegar, pickled eggs and 10 pounds of onions and garlic, and canned the saurkruat fermenting now in the porch. Next week we start smoking corned beef and bacons. And of course very soon we will be starting seeds for the garden to begin the same predictable cycle of food security over again.
As a new year begins, with the wacky world weather, and shifting economic climates, the time to secure food is now. I am confident we can face the future secure in the fact we can care for ourselves and you can be too.
Peace for all
New Year's Day is such a celebration in our house. We feast, we play, we party.All year we bustle about to fulfill our agendas, trying to get things done, we work mostly without reprise. I am always behind and the festivities of December exasperate the situation. Resentments, frustration and exhaustion seem to culminate at the climax of the year.
Then something wonderful happens, the page turns, a new year, a new decade begins. The old year is gone, it's successes linger and it's failures fall away. We forgive ourselves and each other and move forward on a new quest, the 2010 quest. We make new plans and new agendas. All the chores and anxieties can lay in wait, their importance is diminished because today I am not behind merely at the beginning.
Peace for all
