tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8602333.post2243440395050380490..comments2023-04-25T22:01:49.016-07:00Comments on Chez Musser: On Making Changes, and NotChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18036043116763464418noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8602333.post-59232737016230950522008-08-08T17:03:00.000-07:002008-08-08T17:03:00.000-07:00Thank you always for thinking and working so hard ...Thank you always for thinking and working so hard at imagining solutions. I'm with you, small and steady is a good tactic because so much of what we want to change is emeshed with the status quo of our societal norms. From working a full-time job (with overtime), to lures of home improvements to sending our kids off to college to become, in essence, the new consumers of our relentlessly hungry economy, our attachments to old patterns are sticky and systemic. Facing off with the ways change is complicated by habit and, in some cases, sheer economic survival, is like walking back in time to find how it all got so convoluted. You and I (and so many others) have talked about the appeal of the large extended family and the wisdom of farm living - at least in it's most idealized form. Those conversations are always about small scale systems and intact family and community ethics regarding thrift and stewardship. But how do we get there? How really do we go backward when so much of what has been ushered in eschews the sense and sensibility of that ethic? And do humans even want it anymore? Save for the clear breakdown of our current model I always think folks were kinda happy to lessen their work load. Now we are willing to take back that work, own that work, to stop outsourcing that work and food and basic needs. But then you and I feel overwhelmed at time by the way our best made plans come face to face with modern living. Me, with a family that only marginally gets why I work so hard along with the easy lure of the "good life" I suspect, and I read, that it is the same for you at times. But I have always appreciated the effort and heart and look forward to the continued contact and fellowship.<BR/>So.....tomato fest 2008 coming soon. And hope to see you at the homesteader hoe down on Sat. Sept. 6th.<BR/><BR/>In respect, Harrietfasenfesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08868075767165147192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8602333.post-54230820902169415282008-07-28T11:09:00.000-07:002008-07-28T11:09:00.000-07:00Thanks for the encouragement on incremental change...Thanks for the encouragement on incremental change. Our green efforts were knocked askew when we moved to South Dakota. I posted about in May I think. SD may not be the LEAST green state in the Union, but it must be close. I have to drive 65 miles to get to the nearest recycling center, which defeats the purpose. Ah well, we are adjusting and saving up our recycling for the occasional touristy/save your sanity r&r jaunts.equa yona(Big Bear)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09077234314632732773noreply@blogger.com