So, the questions are as follows…
What do I like?
What am I good at?
I like reading, writing and playing/listening to music. I like people, photographs, the earth, stretching my limbs. I love cooking, especially with my husband. I like feeling a part of things, life, love, earth, community. I like grocery shopping and lists.
I want to get into gardening, currently am interested in farming but I’m not sure I have that destined life ahead of me. It’s a lot of work. Although I do wonder if farming, raising animals would give me a great sense of purpose and belonging to the world we live in. in A Dirty Life, my hero the farmer, claims that she felt a deep and great calm feeling when she realized that everything could fall apart, but as long as she’s on the farm, she will be fed.
That’s all we really need: nourishment.
Water. Air. Love.
Yes- I’m adding love into the list of essential ingredients to live because we are humans and humans are pack animals. (could be disagreed with but this is my rant, my rules). Pack it is.
Back to farming-
Farm life sounds incredibly hard, constant ache and labor. But the life is so simple, its very appealing to me. Harvest the land and you will eat. Harvest a lot and you can feed many. Use the money you received from the eaters to create more harvest. Repeat.
It's in your genes raerae~ your great grandpa and great great grandparents loved the soil, loved the seeds, the growth, the harvest, the sprinklers, the sunshine, the grandchildren pulling the berries off the vine and the cherry tomatoes eaten while still hot from the summer sun.....
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