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

Well, I didn't make great plans.  Never really thought about it, as such.  I 
have come to it like a piece of metal to a magnet.  I have always wanted and 
NEEDED to be on the land and to be independent of all the corporate and Keep 
Up With the Jones nonsense.

We have never done anything because you should or it was expected or because 
it was the "in" thing.

If the dragon is out there and IF I can't tame it, then, oh well, but we 
won't be bit on the butt!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>


> ----------------------
>
> No end to it, I suppose.
>
> It was when I was 18 that I first started plotting and scheming to 
> homestead.
> We had hardly kissed the '60's goodbye ... and the 'War' then was Viet 
> Nam.
> It had only been 15 years since Hubbert made his predictions and no one
> outside some dusty academics had any notion of Peak Oil.
>
> The reasons were simple, and yet I feel as if I've never been able to
> communicate them on this list.  I saw the the foolishness of selling one's 
> life to a
> corporation or profession whose demands on your life's force were 
> relentless.
> I had invented in my mind the concept of 'direct use' economy long before 
> I
> read Nearing and Co.
>
> It's been a winding path to get here, and no mistake.  But there are no
> dragons against which I have prepared, homesteading has not been in 
> reaction to any
> of the things being discussed here because at the time I made my main turn 
> to
> this lifestyle, none of those things existed.
>
> If gas were 25 cents a gallon and electricity were free, if food were all
> organic and cost 2% of one's income, I'd still homestead.  In fact I was 
> indeed
> growing much of my own food and walking (4 miles each way) to work at a 
> time
> when food and gas were cheap.  I did it out of sense of freedom.
>
> So let me outline it, although many might find it mind-boggling:  I 
> haven't
> prepared against anything.  Homesteading isn't a mirthless reaction to 
> hard
> times or foolish choices.  Each step on this enterprise was thought out 
> and
> embraced for its own sake, not because it was a reacton agaisnt somehting 
> or
> preparing against something.
>
> If our personal farmstead economy is stable in these times, that's just 
> icing
> on the cake, not the reason to have done it.
>
> I fear no dragons.  Pointing out that others are about to be devoured by 
> them
> isn't the same thing a fearing them.  Sitting around waiting for something
> bad to happen to me is as reprehensible as the people who think AIDS is a
> punishment from God on homosexuals.
>
> You've got a long wait.  And it's almost sad that you don't see why. 
> Almost.
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