poverty or abundance?

We live this way simply because the alternatives are not in our value system.

I may never understand why people don't use what is around them.

We went for a walk last night down to the creek. We stopped and checked the garden on the way, we picked blackberries, we spent time with the kids, we talked about how much things had changed by our hard work since we moved here in Jan., I saw our oldest son lift his head with his eyes closed when he felt the wind....those are the things we want to pass on to them.

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Everything works, if you let it.

I don't know if this is another subject or what but something someone said about why are people living in poverty when there is so much aboundence around us.........it is ignorance. It makes me ill to know that two generations ago people knew how to take care of themselves and now they don't. Dh and I are having to learn from scratch how to be self suficent. I am almost mad at my parents for not teaching me more, ofcourse I didn't care to learn I would rather have watched Nickalodeon and MTV. Now I know what I have missed. It is crazy to live in a world where you rely on Walmart and McDonalds to supply your needs. GGGGRRRRR rant over. Thank you. Amie.

I have more than my sister and hubby who make $100,000 a year....why? because I dont go out to eat all the time (the whole family is obese), I dont throw money at problems in a half meant attempt to fix them, I dont by a new vehicle every 2 years and put 50k miles a year on it, I dont get a babysitter or housekeeper, I dont spend money on dance/piano/football/hockey/cable tv....and many other things....our wage is 1/3 of hers and we have 10 times more than she does in savings.....and a much less stressfull lifestyle and I am not obese nor do I have to endure all the medical ramifications that come with obesity.

I feel sorry for my sister and others who live their life in excess. Even her child finds no joy in playing...it must be a trip to the amusement park or something that involves money and leaving home.....she cant climb trees with my kids because she is obese. Sad huh? They live in the country and have race horses and a garden but they have other people doing the work for them.

I choose this lifestyle and although I may eat beans and eggs instead of filet mignon....its okay with me.

And I believe life is both a feast and a heartache.....when your garden produces well , fishing and hunting are productive, your goat has twin doelings, life is good. When the weather is bad and you have to shovel snow or bail the cellar, or your animals die its tough..... but you have to take the good with the bad....

I don't feel like our economy is any kind of stable and as such I'd like to put as much self-sufficient buffer between me and the bulk of the country in case of collapse. Also in concurrance with Whiterock, I have a deep felt emotional need to grow something plant and raise something animal. I grew up that way and had no intention of leaving until economics and need for an education came into play. Now, it's a fight to get back to where a day of work feels like a day of work and the fruits of your labors can be eaten at supper. Also, city life is just so overabundantly distracting and repressively enforced that it stifles the creativity. Where did good old fashioned American enginuity go? It's sitting in front of the TV.