Living a Simple Life
Archive for ‘Simple Thoughts’
Reminder To My Future Self…
It is the end of a decade and the end of an era (The Denver Era) so I thought it would be an appropriate time to take a snapshot. Sometimes along the road of life we lose track of what was important to our earlier selves. Usually we’ve just grown into different priorities. Still, it is important to be reminded of our values and priorities as they were at a given point in time so that we might hold our older selves accountable to our earlier selves.
Giving & Receiving Useful Gifts
I got a Poulan Pro 18-inch 42cc gas-powered, chainsaw for Christmas. It’s the kind in this chainsaw comparison. Along with it I was given some stocking stuffers like work gloves, ear plugs and some smaller gifts like a book on chainsaw maintenance and helmet with a face shield for cutting wood. I gave my wife, among other things, several sewing and knitting books, some contraption that helps her ball up hand-spun yarn, some wool… Next year she might get an actual spinning wheel, but the darned things cost over $400 new so she’s fine with a drop spindle for now.
On Community
You can be surrounded by millions and still be alone.
Although I run an “urban” homesteading group at the moment (this one), I must confess that we have purchased a small farm in rural Virginia to which we plan on moving at some point in the not-so-distant future.
On Not Being a Luddite
For those of you who don’t know what Luddite means, it is used to describe people who reject progress. More specifically, it refers to the British Luddites, textile workers of the early nineteenth century who protested Industrial Revolution “progress” by destroying the mechanized looms that threatened to put them out of work.
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