tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80418922930927329092024-02-07T23:22:40.088+01:00Hay QuakerSome food for thought from a homesteading Quaker living in that beautiful part of Sweden called Småland.Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.comBlogger1023125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-39762207338840182772022-12-31T07:40:00.006+01:002022-12-31T07:40:52.235+01:00No Small Thing ~ Alys Fowler<p> "It is no small thing to garden in this changing world....When politicians continue to fail us and big business laughs in the face of our futures, the act of stepping outside their nightmares and choosing to softly, carefully tend our gardens so that all the others, from the soil to songbirds, have space too. Well, that remains as radical as the day we first started to garden as humans." </p><p><br /></p><p>~Alys Fowler</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDvzkRNrej_sOKXLz6udP3aFXft6cV-6NdkslwtSAwRic2fRNXUIFrVjPtvQ9BeqwWU113MbiwhyHukYGB5s3RnH8dalBsOXDEQG-uDM_9F_K-7NYqj3VqPPQoxRPBLBpAEOMyPh3FovNpXTF2Aro4-9Zf9Air4Ve8Aa3AHj2VTRGTW49uB9MiZsRgsw/s640/Green-Pebble-MC1-15-20-By-the-Back-Door_9c0da204-e43a-457e-8d30-887328bdfcfc_1024x1024%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDvzkRNrej_sOKXLz6udP3aFXft6cV-6NdkslwtSAwRic2fRNXUIFrVjPtvQ9BeqwWU113MbiwhyHukYGB5s3RnH8dalBsOXDEQG-uDM_9F_K-7NYqj3VqPPQoxRPBLBpAEOMyPh3FovNpXTF2Aro4-9Zf9Air4Ve8Aa3AHj2VTRGTW49uB9MiZsRgsw/w400-h400/Green-Pebble-MC1-15-20-By-the-Back-Door_9c0da204-e43a-457e-8d30-887328bdfcfc_1024x1024%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>More at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alys_Fowler" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alys_Fowler</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Artwork from Marcella Cooper <a href="https://www.greenpebble.co.uk/collections/marcella-cooper" target="_blank">https://www.greenpebble.co.uk/collections/marcella-cooper</a></div>Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-35419152127799907572021-10-14T18:04:00.001+02:002021-10-14T18:04:49.512+02:00Love after Love ~ Derek Walcott<p>“ <span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">The time will come</span><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;"> </span></p><p><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">when, with elation</span><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;"> </span></p><p><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">you will greet yourself arriving </span></p><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">at your own door, in your own mirror </span><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">and each will smile at the other's welcome, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">and say, sit here. Eat. </span></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">You will love again the stranger who was your self.</span></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart </span></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">to itself, to the stranger who has loved you </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">all your life, whom you ignored </span></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">for another, who knows you by heart. </span></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">the photographs, the desperate notes, </span></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">peel your own image from the mirror. </span></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-family: Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, "Droid Sans", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(20, 24, 35); color: #141823; font-size: 15px;">Sit. 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Wilson on the internet, I can’t work out which of them wrote this!</div></span>Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-5801488699612194412019-12-12T10:02:00.000+01:002019-12-12T10:02:02.530+01:00The Journey ~ Paulo Coelho<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d7fd9dc4-c39c-410a-8075-1d8e690d0823" id="49ca51a7-321b-4db3-8f0a-af7588998ede">faultfinder</gs> will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="26d29ef1-6717-4185-a728-9fc39d43f687" id="1f4fce5c-2bf8-4c94-829a-efd406dda81d">see, but</gs> a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.” </span><br />
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-22202670648157166752019-11-27T09:18:00.002+01:002019-11-27T09:18:58.613+01:00Why Things Are ~ Donald B. Kraybill<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-78624946875976351802019-11-22T11:00:00.000+01:002019-11-22T11:00:36.320+01:00A Tree ~ Louise Dickinson Rich<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-2600503551858832392019-11-22T10:11:00.000+01:002019-11-22T10:11:37.744+01:00Affirmative Action ~ Anthony T. Hincks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-66397395761013943472019-11-20T12:23:00.000+01:002019-11-20T12:23:39.753+01:00Commitment ~Arthur Gish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-11767730355932861192019-11-19T13:27:00.000+01:002019-11-19T13:27:23.445+01:00Pending Storm ~ Gert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.”<div>
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-70428288281026898212019-10-25T08:27:00.000+02:002019-10-25T08:27:41.015+02:00Two Roads ~ Rachel Carson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been travelling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less travelled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the Earth.”</span><div>
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-84016085272633363662019-10-18T10:53:00.000+02:002019-10-18T10:53:58.021+02:00We Understood ~ Mohammed Faris<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Not long ago, local farms and markets were the only source of food in one's life. We understood where our food came from, the ground in which it grew, and its link to our Creator. Today, however, with the globalisation of the food industry and the ever-increasing urbanisation of humanity, we've lost this link to the earth and forgotten our dependence on the Creator to provide food for us.” <br /><br />~ Mohammed Faris</span><div>
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-61412684017495191292019-10-14T10:24:00.000+02:002019-10-14T10:24:37.834+02:00Overwhelmed by the Gifts~ Norman Wirzba<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"To work in a garden is to be surrounded by the mysteries of germination, growth, and decay, and it is to be overwhelmed by the gifts of raspberries, tomatoes, and onions that surprise us with their fragrance and taste. But it isn’t all pleasantries. To garden is also to be frustrated by the disease and death that are beyond one’s control and power. Where did this blight come from? Why won’t this seed germinate? A late frost again? The temptation is always to give up and walk away. But that isn’t really a viable option. If people are to eat, they must eventually return to the ground.......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gardening is one of the most vital practices for teaching people the art of creaturely life. With this art people are asked to slow down and calibrate their desires to meet the needs and potential of the plants and animals under their care. Gardeners are invited to learn patience and to develop the sort of sympathy in which personal flourishing becomes tied to the flourishing of the many creatures that nurture them. A garden, we might say, is a living laboratory in which we have the chance to grow into nurturers, protectors, and celebrators of life........ To garden well – in the skilful modes of attention, patience, sensitivity, vigilance, and responsiveness – is to participate in the way G_d gardens the world."</span><br />
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-20670036258130965252019-10-10T08:49:00.001+02:002019-10-10T08:50:15.048+02:00Silence has Aways Been a Battle ~ Joy Clarkson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"It comforted me to read of the Desert Fathers’ and Mothers’ struggle with acedia, because they made me see that we are not the first generation to fight this battle. The desert parents longed to know G_d and to cultivate that sacred silence and blessed boredom, and so do I. But befriending that silence was a struggle for them, just as it is for me. It made me realize that while smart phones and social media may impede our interior world, it is no real excuse. Impediments toward peace and quiet have always existed. Our shapeshifting opponent may have changed its guise from sleepiness to social media, but it is still there, doing all it can to rob our empty hours of their fullness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We cannot give up the battle for holy silence and for blessed boredom simply because we live in a world with smart phones. To pursue silence, boredom, even loneliness, is a radical choice in our world, but it was a radical choice in theirs as well. We must choose to turn away from the constant entertainment that vies for our attention. We must allow ourselves to be lonely. Silence has always been a battle. Prayer has never been easy."</span></div>
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-43838293068037645592019-10-03T14:10:00.001+02:002019-10-03T14:10:41.019+02:00Meaning of The Rolling Hills ~Hal Borland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?"<div>
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-31821590938748508762019-09-19T14:00:00.001+02:002019-09-19T14:00:32.920+02:00Never Said a Word~ Arthur Gish <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The highest power we can imagine is the calm, the sublime. Anyone who has experienced the power of Quaker worship knows the power of silence. Dominic is reported to have visited Francis of Assisi and during their whole visitt they never said a word to each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Simplicity is to know G_d. It is the fulfilment that decaying societies and materialism can never satisfy or destroy. The longing for the infinite can be fulfilled only in relation to the infinite. Simplicity is to recognize mystery. People complicate things to deny mystery. Much activity, complexity and intellectualization are an attempt to escape from G_d. Simple faith is to live in a relation to G_d rather than to speculate about Him."</span><br />
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-23321683349460912592019-09-18T10:57:00.000+02:002019-09-18T10:57:55.904+02:00Our Door is Open ~ Philip Britts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"One of the best contributions of the school of organic farming to agriculture is this call for a genuine love of the land....... But just as we do not believe that organic farming can find its full meaning outside the context of the whole of life, neither do we believe that an organic society can exist for itself, or have its only significance for the small group of people who are living it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of two things must happen. Either man will decline, through war, famine, disease, and the falling birth rate... or we must learn to live peaceably together, in a society where the demand for wealth or position, ease or comfort, is supplanted by the just sharing of everything, and a free giving of strength and brains in service, not of self, but of the whole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We do try to farm organically, but we see this as only a part of an organic life, and existing in the context of a search for truth along the whole line. This gives rise to social justice as brotherhood, to economic justice as community of goods. We see these conditions as the necessary basis for a true attitude towards the land and towards work. Therefore, our door is always open to all people who wish to seek a new way with us."</span></div>
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-85519450932368806872019-09-17T09:46:00.000+02:002019-09-17T09:46:20.698+02:00Infinite Wonders ~ Nicolas Gallicus <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I want to tell you of the joys of the solitary life. The beauty of the elements, the starry heavens and the planets ordered in perfect harmony, invite us to contemplate infinite wonders.... All our sisters the creatures strive in the solitude to fill our eyes, ears and feelings with caresses. Their inexpressible beauty cries out in silence and invites us to praise the marvellous Creator."</span><br />
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-62660098206152722252019-09-12T09:54:00.001+02:002019-09-12T09:55:51.430+02:00A Thousand Simple Things ~ Mark Boyle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"This way of life I have now adopted is often called “the simple life,” but that’s entirely misleading. It’s actually quite complex, made up of a thousand simple things. By contrast, my old life in the city was quite simple, but made up of a thousand complex things, like smartphones and plug sockets and plastic. The innumerable technologies of industrial civilization are so complex they make our own lives <span>simple .......</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What I think people mean by “the simple life” is the uncomplicated essence of it all, and, yes, there is a timeless simplicity to it. I’ve found that when you peel off the plastic that industrial civilization vacuum-packs around you, what remains couldn’t be simpler. Healthy food. Something to be enthusiastic about. Fresh air. A sense of belonging and aliveness. Good water. Purpose. Intimacy. A vital and deep connection to life. The kind of things I did without for too many years."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Please, if you have the time, please read the full article at;</span><br />
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-88110659547994516422019-09-11T08:32:00.000+02:002019-09-11T08:42:11.802+02:00Throw Away your Status ~ Arthur Gish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"Throw away your status hang-ups. Forget about being respectable in society's eyes. Much of your money now is probably spent to give you respectability. Don't be embarrassed to do things that save money.<br />
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Begin to drop out of the rat-race. Think of those things you despise most in the establishment and begin to remove yourself from them. Don't support them or contribute to them any longer."<br />
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Ray Lovegrovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741025951408554324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041892293092732909.post-36204737496338419332019-02-22T08:19:00.001+01:002019-02-22T08:19:38.822+01:00 Healing Comes ~ Christopher Bamford<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"When we are at home in the garden, tending and nurturing all its plants, animals and minerals, living with them through all the seasons and days, then healing comes upon us like a gift and makes us whole."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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