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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT gmail.com>
  • To: Homestead List <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Checking out
  • Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:22:26 -0500

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!")






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