[pf] _very_ plain living. (was: Re[2]: Another Inspiration)

At 18:09 27/4/2001 -0400, tully wrote:
>>"... opting out of corporate America ... There is no escape."
>
>Never say never.  Escape is altogether possible if we were more interested
in living adventurous spiritual lives than we are in living luxurious
"safe" ones. ... can live off the land, creating homes, clothing, meals,
and hygiene from tools of their own making, living full rich lives in
community where such values are shared. ...
>
>Ah, but taking 30 seconds to dig that little hole outside to shit in is
not accepted as the earthsharing ritual it could be, but is scorned as
beneath our dignity, and thus starts all the rest of the cycle for which
the entire planet must pay so dearly with its loss of dignity.
>

· Good one, tully.

· That was one reason why the 4 of us bought the farm, in 1991. (Where
three of us are going, in the next couple of hours.)
  And it's good to know that someone else values the straight-forward,
right-there-in-front-of-you way of living. You work the land, raising
plants and animals, cook and eat them, shit and pee back into the soil, and
raise some more food next year.
  As we did for the first year (lift a turf to shit), and still do now
(long-drop - not acceptable to some of our daughter's friends).

· Plain living based on the necessities, where the desirable is a bit of
corrugated iron over the long-drop (added last year) to keep some of the
rain off, and luxury is an indoor composting toilet (which is emptied into
the compost heap twice a year). The cycle is complete, right on your own
property, where you are completely responsible for getting it right.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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