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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Unfortunately far too many people allow their jobs to define them.  Without 
that job they seem, somehow, to cease to exist and simply quit.

I have a million things I want to do simply because I enjoy doing things.  I 
love to create things.

We've made the "work" part of our land as efficient as we can and carefully 
outline our plans.  Then we get on with the fun part of living in our little 
corner of the world.  This gives us plenty of time to do the fun things, the 
stopping to smell the flowers, shall we say, or in our case, to watch the 
hummingbird that has adopted us and the two group of crazy pilated 
woodpeckers, one group of whom, I swear, are very confused birds that should 
be on the East Coast and are supposed to be extinct (they have the white 
beaks).

Our "resolution" list, if you want to call it that, consists of the things 
we know we will accomplish in the time frame that we allot.  Most of those 
are things that in one way or another bring us joy -- a more efficient 
kitchen because I love to cook and DH and the kidlets love to eat <g>; 
planting more and more kinds of fruit trees, canes, vines and bushes, not 
just to be relatively self-sufficient but because we love the taste of 
homegrown fruits and we need more so that the fruit actually makes it into 
the house <g>; planting a row of tsungi (is that spelled correctly?) because 
they will grow quickly, make the house more private and help keep the dust 
down which means less time dusting and more time enjoying life; building a 
pergola in the front because it will help keep the house cooler in the 
summer and because we like the look and enjoy sitting out there on a summer 
afternoon; and so forth and so on.

Everything serves multiple purposes.  Some may call them resolutions, some 
may call them work but we call them a means to an end and that end is our 
own happiness!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>

> snip>
I hear so often tales of people who retire from
> their jobs and then die the following year. I can't help but feel that
> they needed to work, and that symbolically or not, there was a mental
> change that happened when the work was done...that they prepared to die.
> When you get it all done, there is nothing else to live for...I hope to
> never be done.  When I die, I hope to be in my garden on a sunny day
> working on some project or another.
>
> Bev, wishing all a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays
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> Bevanron of EarthNSky Farm   Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the
> ocean's depths, MY son is protecting YOUR freedom.
>
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