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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>, Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Rising Prices Hit Home For Food Stamp Recipients
  • Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 22:10:44 -0400

At 06:51 AM 5/28/2008, you wrote:
This points out my own conundrum.  What, exactly, is going to change in such a way as to reduce the stress and busyness?  In order to have time and energy to do the things we should, we will have to do less overall.  Voluntary simplicity sounds like a very desirable concept, but I struggle with what I might "give up" in order to gain a bit of peace.

Same here. I finally did give up a substantial section of the area I was working in, regardless of the loss of income, and it turned out to be the best decision in more ways than one. Less time on the road, less overall stress, and I did it just before the gas prices began to skyrocket. That extra income would have been eaten up in the extra cost of gas.

 
I have found that a better diet and more exercise makes me more fit, but increased energy is immediately consumed by opportunities that await.  I, and I expect others as well, simply work to exhaustion each day, no matter what, leaving many desirable things undone.
 
 
Yes, I think this is true of an awful lot of people nowadays. I wonder sometimes whether the collapse of society might not be a huge relief in some ways!

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com


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