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  • From: <pbunch@cox.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: Pego Rice <firekeeper38@yahoo.com>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Experiment in Country Living<Goodchild
  • Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 6:06:27 -0700

Good point.

---- Pego Rice <firekeeper38@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Groundedness, being "Well Grounded" means having a good foundation, well
> connected to logic and reality.  In people, it also connotates internal
> strength on an emotional and mental level.
>
> I brought this point up because there are a lot of people looking at this
> lifestyle and all our variations on it, from my little backyard HOA
> homestead to some fair sized farms and know that in their own lives, the do
> not feel that sence of being grounded in reality.  There is also this. 
> There are just some points in our life that the "feeling" escapes us and
> then our logic wavers. Sometimes it bears reminding of not just one point,
> "I want to be here" but the many points that have lead to "this is the best
> place from which to weather life's extingencies"  We all know what causes
> people to question their "experiment in country living"  and often to leave
> the land.  Here in the clear light of day we also know that those same
> disasters show up no matter where we are or what life we've chosen.  Money
> rears it's ugly head at times like these.  It is good to address it clearly.
>  
> Yours, Pego
>
>
> <<But as Mitch said the sort of lifestyle we're advocating should not be
> evaluated in monetary terms. I agree it shouldn't be dismissed because it's
> not good income. Yet local growers need to find ways to at least make
> growing supplement whatever income they have. We know the personal
> benefits.>>paul tradingpost@lobo.net>>
>
>
>








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