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[Melody Oliphant <melody AT feedngrow.com>]

Melody Oliphant wrote:
> Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>   
> >   
> >     
> > >   Hi clansgian...do you have a first name?
> > >   Well...ya won't hear me complainin' about lack of work...I'm seventy years 
> > > old and still goin' strong...don't think I will be seizing up and 
> > >
> > >     
> > >       
> > One of the foremost is this:  Whether the homesteader views work as a friend 
> > or whether he views it as the enemy.  Whether we take pide and satisfaction in 
> > having more or being more.  Have less, be more.
> >
> > <snip>
> > Like homesteading, it's a matter of degrees and orientation.  Do we reach 
> > farther toward real self-sufficiency and an increase in our skill and capacity no 
> > matter where it is that we begin, or do we abdicate that freedom for the 
> > gadget myth?
> >
> > James   </HTML>
> >     
> I really appreciate this wisdom, James.  I moved to town a few years ago 
> and have been waiting to be "a homesteader" until we go back to the 
> country.  A silly thought, since it has been 5 years and the country is 
> no closer to a reality now than it was even two years ago. 
>
> Homesteading is more of a mindset than a location, I do believe, and I 
> intend to start doing what I have procrastinated all of these years 
> waiting for a change in location.
>
> Melody
James, I quoted from you on my 
blog(http://homeiswheremyheartis.wordpress.com/), I hope it is alright 
with you.  If not, I will take it down.  I attributed the quote from "a 
poster on my homestead list", but I will be happy to add your name if 
you'd prefer, or take it down altogether if you'd rather not have your 
words up there.

Your words were a great springboard for thought for me this morning.

Just let me know.
Thanks
Melody