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  • From: "Sage Austin | Eureka! Design" <eureka AT hctc.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] was british- now Bev's realization
  • Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:41:51 -0600

My thought is if city people are starving and come to rural areas looking for food, then they could be housed and put to work farming for everyone's benefit. Even my small place could house another family. During the Depression when my grandfather was out of work my mother's large family was housed in a relative's barn. In the two back-to-back 500 year floods I've been through here I was amazed at how well community worked together for common good in a crisis, when they don't necessarily do that on a day to day basis. I am hearing the same from friends in their ice storms. I think there will be a lot of compassion if things get really bad.

There will also be lessons of humility. I came from a very poor family, put myself through college, and worked my way up the corporate ladder. When I left to start my own business, I decided to work a couple days a week for a year at a local paint manufacturer that needed help organizing and filling orders. I drove through seven often flowing low water crossings just to get there, same seven back. The warehouse was exceedingly cold (for me) in the winter and sometimes 104 degrees in the summer. The paint orders weighed 60 lbs, and I lifted over a ton each day. Some people might think I was crazy, but it covered my car payment while I built up my business, and helped some good folks out. It was like getting paid to go to the gym, and I could dress however I pleased. I had no problem with doing something like this because I learned humility a long time ago, you do what you have to do. Remember those great scenes from Cold Mountain of those ladies learning to cope?

Bob, you often talk about all of us tough, hard homesteading ladies. I think most women possess this spirit whether they know it yet or not. But I think our hardness does not come from guns, it comes from perseverance and determination as much as it does compassion, humility, and love.

--Sage

Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
Lynn, I was making a point, not exactly being literal. I was talking the ridiculous mad max scenarios where only Darwinian rules count. But, I accept your response, and understand how my comment could have sounded like I enjoy the idea of violent behavior - when I actually hope to never again have to act violently toward anyone. Part of the world is very ugly Lynn, and we all live in the world; but, that comment was toward a silly apocalyptic future. I apologize for upsetting your morning ....bobf

You are the one who keeps bringing up the "apocalyptic future". Your posts often speak of guns and violence, full of anger and fear. I've never seen the world that way. I lived in a ghetto and went to graduate school in north Philadelphia (Temple University), the worst neighborhood in the city. I had night classes and took public transportation alone. In 53 years, I've never owned a gun and never felt the need for one. To me, the world has never been a scary place.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
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