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["Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>]

> Lynn Wigglesworth or Bev wrote:
>
> (snip) ...but once out in the world, it slaps me right in the face as to
> how poor I am or (positively thinking) how different my priorities are, and
> how the world is passing me by.


Where I live much of this is 'normal' (whatever that is), but where I most
feel the difference is when we have to venture up the road to the next town
to hit Goodwill or to take youngest son to a soccer game, but at the annual
or twice-annual get togethers with my own family.  We are self-titled
Luddites for the most part and are glad for it, but within our own
family...you'd think we were from Mars. Or even better, from Pluto--the now
non-planet, that's us.  As much as you guys know I'm not a true homesteader
(though I make attempts here and there), my family thinks we are completely
a-normal and very 'rural', but not necessarily in the kindest and endearing
sense of the word.  We don't care, but once in a while I want to shake them
(kindly and gently, of course).

Lisa