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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Dec 20, 2008, at 1:22 AM, EarthNSky wrote:

> Can I not be both, that is can I not have half baked or fearful views
> about things and still wear muck boots to bed?

You can be anything you choose. Self-perception is critical. How you  
are viewed by others does not put bread on your plate.

James:
> > It’s just getting to be a little more effort to sift out the pearls
> > from the rotting oysters amid all the verbose blather here.  But that
> > comes and goes on this list as it does on most.  First, I suppose I
> > am reminding myself, is to consider the source.  Is the view coming
> > from the worker of the land, or is it from some other focus … or none
> > at all?

This speaks to one of my prevailing muses these days: the need to  
focus on one's plan versus being sloshed here and there by the waves  
of the media. Yes, there are certain things in each of our lives that  
are or may be affected by the current economic zoo of all the  
financial animals run amuck. Yes, we should be aware of how our lives  
might be affected and adjust accordingly. But from a homesteading  
viewpoint, very little of that zoo will directly affect us. Better to  
focus on our personal plans than on what mad Madoff has done and how  
his actions affect New York developers, or the roller-coaster  
financial markets, or the price of gold, etc., etc., etc.