permaculture

["Carrie Shepard" <outlikeelijah@gbronline.com>]

I hope that you don't mean you really think that husband is synonymous with
'bondage'  or actually you're probably reflecting the general consensus of
many who have the plumbing, but not the backbone and the vision that can see
it a high priviledge to care for a wife and rear children, and not at all a
'bondage'.


I recently read a scripture from the old testament that said that 'even the
jackals offer their breast to their young'  and now we have a huge
percentage of women too lazy and decieved by the idea they must make money
instead of giving their own breast to their own babies OR their short-sited
'sperm donor' thinks it's wiser to pimp out his wife for $ instead of seeing
that nurturing their child is part of ensuring they have successors and
loving family to care for them in their old age. 

Perhaps my niche in permaculture community development is to encourage the
men to rise up to their intended creative capacities to make a living for
their precious offspring and may the men on this list have their hearts
turned to their children.
 
As recently as 1828, the definition of husband was:

HUS'BAND, n. s as z.


1. A man contracted or joined to a woman by marriage. A man to whom a woman
is betrothed, as well as one actually united by marriage, is called a
husband. Lev.19. Deut.22.

2. In seaman's language, the owner of a ship who manages its concerns in
person.

3. The male of animals of a lower order.

4. An economist; a good manager; a man who knows and practices the methods
of frugality and profit. In this sense, the word is modified by an epithet;
as a good husband; a bad husband. [But in America, this application of the
word is little or not at all used.]

5. A farmer; a cultivator; a tiller of the ground. [In this sense, it is not
used in America. We always use husbandman.]
HUS'BAND, v.t. To direct and manage with frugality in expending any thing;
to use or employ in the manner best suited to produce the greatest effect;
to use with economy. We say, a man husbands his estate,his means or his
time.


He is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.

1. To till; to cultivate with good management.

2. To supply with a husband. [Little used.] 

Proud to be wife of a man who gladly bears the responsibilities that rearing
a family requires,

Carrie