New Direction

So in the past, I have used this blog as a way of communicating with our extended loved ones the daily happens within our little famly. Those of you who have spent any time with us probably realize that there are a LOT of happenings here between Lucie and Lila.......and us grownups.

I am going to change my 'blogging' directions and focus more on the development of our farm and increase self-sufficiency as well as the constant juxtopostion of capitalistic business entre'manures' and country practicality with a rant for green living.

Jarred and I have spoke of this at length. The business owner who wants limited government involvement and the country farmer who wants little 'charity' or participation in 'the system'. Maybe there is very little difference. While we are slaves to our business, our master is ourselves. While we are responsible for the defeats, we also are the ones who get to take the victory lap. Our little seasonal farm (more about this terminology later) will be an opportunity for us to relearn how life can, and we may argue should, be lived. A life that is centered around production and creation and enjoyment rather than consumption and disposal and anxiety. The desicions are not always easy or pretty. Often they are strange and a curiosity. However, perhaps this adventure into the self-sufficient living, that was the ground works for America, will provide us a sense of security and self-esteem that can not be bought at a store or obtained from reading others life stories. My little seasonal farm will be small, but the work will be real and I suspect will bring me closer to an understanding of not where the world stands, but a real knowledge of where I stand.

Already I have learned new things, but also learned that I have skills of which I was not aware. I think it takes some confidence to move away from 'normal' urban life and set up a fresh existence that is more interested when it will rain again than it is in getting the newest LV. My thoughts daydream to figuring out my new chicken coop vs. a new store in the mall. I look through seed catalouges and picture myself in the hot sun killing catapillars rather than tailgaiting at Tiger Stadium (but listening to it on the radio in the nice screened in porch--maybe we will get done sometime.)