Prolixic Spew

You're all dying to find out whats on my mind Im sure.

I find what started out as being able to live simpler and praying more is turning into a modified Prepper /Self Sustained Living'er meets Life off the Grider meets Tree Hugopotamus. It’s an interesting mix and completely unexpected. I was so far from the sprout and granola crowd I could have been a spokesperson for Ding Dongs and Cake Rolls. The waste in my life was and I can see now still is enormous. That being said should we cut down forests? Yes. Should we build power plants? Yes. I think what I advocate – I’m still working on this- is a sensible blend of the two worlds. You can live off the grid but take a chain saw. I understand the romance of a hand saw but thinking like that should lead to abandon the say and chip an edge to a rock to make an axe. Like they say you can’t fix stupid.
I have pain daily along with other stuff I took pills for. I spent years trying to regulate it all with pills. Now I just live different- or try to do my best. When I fall off the wagon and eat pizza or fast food or boxed food because I didn’t prep correctly the pain goes right up. The fatigue comes slamming back instantly. So I now make my food fresh and control what goes in it. I eat meat and am just fine with chickens hooked up to a feeding machine. What I’m not ok with is buying twelve eggs and then tossing 6 because the sell by date is 3 days past.
You want to lose weight but still watch TV? Make your own food. And I mean make it not microwave it. I eat less because I appreciate the effort it takes my wife and I to make a loaf of bread and when I think about making one I eat a piece instead of 6. I eat smaller more often not because that’s what’s best for me but because I want to make it last.
I had a salad at a restaurant on Saturday; I was out celebrating a birthday with a friend. They brought me two dinner rolls to go with it. They were processed grain enriched and bleached. Not very good for me it will spike my sugar and has not real food value for me. When we were done I looked around at was remaining there were buns grizzled meat hunks half eaten fries. We had more than we needed and it was second nature to walk away. That second nature lends itself across barriers from food to electronics to three showers a day to credit cards and on and on. I hear stories of the filthy rich being sad and the poor being so very happy. I see kids with everything say they are bored. Instant communication fast food and microwave dinners all combined into a live style removes the appreciation for a thing. I wonder how this crosses over to family. There sure is a lot of divorce, me included. I guess if I knew now what I didn’t know then.
I’m not going to live without my cell phone but I turn it off. I recycle but I’m still going to use plastic trash bags. I’m going to combine the things we have advanced to with the things we built our foundation on. Too much of anything is a bad thing but everything can be good in moderation. So I’ll continue to weave the things that make life good into the fabric of my family and when I’m done I think I will have been better for it.
I fed the dinner rolls to the birds.