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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Read bad news, or, garden more
  • Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:14:52 -0700

Lisa wrote: I don't expect it's going to make me feel any better, but at least I'll be
informed and probably motivated to start a new round of seeds the following
morning.

I've been thinking about the results of reading bad news day after week after month. What do we gain by that other than perhaps perverse pleasure in finding ourselves better off than many people? Does knowing any of the bad news improve our lives? Or might it depress us?

Seems to me that this is our time, the time we will tell our grandchildren and great-grandchildren about. I plan to tell mine that I gardened even more intensely and that's how Grammy Chris and I got through the bad times just fine.

I've often thought about the very low percentage of people who choose to live what we think of as a homesteading life. Some of us are even surprised when our spouses see the value. We think homesteading is superior, but how to convince others? People do not respond positively to being told what they should do. Seems to me the best way is to show them by how we live. This is an opportune time to show the value--it is a teaching moment.

We can spend hours reading bad news or we can spend even more hours doing gardening and all the other homesteading things we believe in.

It's a choice.





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