Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com>]

I think vocation is very important.  My dairy - working with dairy animals seems to be my vocation as I have had animals my whole life of every type generally seen from snakes to birds to all the various livestock types - is my daily pleasure.  My meditation twice a day.  I also am a certified EFT practitioner and trainer/NLP master and that job makes me $100/hour but I dont prefer it at all and at this point generally only teach folks to use meridian techniques to heal themselves instead of taking clients and being away from the farm all day long.  Lots of folks out there wondering what they want to be when they grow up - generally they knew it when they were young but along the way were swept up into the need for some sort of job that paid them for their time instead of their passion:o(

Blessings,

Aliza


“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

--- On Mon, 11/8/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: [Livingontheland] from An Interview with Wendell Berry
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 8:03 PM

more on making a living farming, this time from Wendell Berry

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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from An Interview with Wendell Berry
November 8, 2010
http://www.counterpunch.org/healy11082010.html

TPH: The son of a family friend wrote you to ask if there is a future in organic farming, and what can a young man do? You responded to him and he was so taken by your response he became an apprentice at an organic farm in California.

WB: Well, I’ve gotten a lot of people in trouble I’m afraid...

TPH: Do you think it’s still a viable way to make a living? I see these people at the farmers markets and see how hard they work - is it still a viable thing to do?

WB: Of course it’s a viable thing to do and it does involve hard work, but the important question is about work and who you’re doing it for and whether or not you like to do it. If you’re working for yourself, working hard for yourself and your family on a little farm, that’s quite a different thing from working hard for a boss or working hard at a job you despise—which most people seem to do. Why else would they keep saying, “Thank God it’s Friday?” So the right questions are, who you’re working for and what the work is and whether or not you are in some sense called to do it.

TPH: The calling?

WB: Calling - vocation—that’s another idea that has declined maybe disastrously among us. The decline of the idea of vocation into the idea of “a job” is really a catastrophe in a way. “Vocation” suggests that all of us have some work that we’re called to or fitted for. “A job” means some way to earn a living whether we like it or not - whether we like the work or not - or even whether the work is damaging to the world or our neighbors or not.
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