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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT gmail.com>]

Well, my friends, it is time for me to simplify my life and leave the 
homestead list for good. It is hard to believe now, considering the 
normality of silence, but it used to be a lively place that I could 
visit to find people who were willing to lay it all out there on any 
subject.  I credit this list for getting me interested in politics and 
in homesteading issues like NAIS, permaculture, and alternative 
energies.  I've been on the list for the better part of 15 years, and in 
that time, you all have molded into the person I am today.  For the last 
5 or more years, I've started probably more than a third of the 
conversations on this list, for better or worse, in trying to keep the 
spark alive and to continue my own learning and understanding.  Now, I 
am forced to look elsewhere for intellectual stimulation and debate on 
issues.  As an aside, I have to say that according to my own definition 
of homesteading, I am no longer a homesteader, just a poor person with a 
cabin in the boonies and a bunch of chickens.  I don't belong here 
anymore, and it seems hypocritical to call myself a homesteader and 
organic gardener/rancher when I have to take engineered biologic drugs 
to function.

Many of you are on Facebook, and I thoroughly enjoy following your life 
journeys there.  I hope that I might continue to be a part of your lives 
there.  If you aren't on Facebook, but you still want to keep in touch, 
you can always email me directly (erthnsky AT gmail.com),  but this is my 
last post to Homestead.

Peace, out..

Bev

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EarthNSky Farm  34.498N 85.076W
SISU! (Finnish--There is no single word in English that encompasses
all that sisu means, but it combines the following ideas: guts, pep,
determination, stubbornness, perseverance, hardiness, stamina, go, do,
nerve, spunk, pluck, and grit.  It's like "Just Do It!"&  "Go for It!")