It's nightime, time for our break....?
I received the text at 9:30pm last night while at work: "we have a surprise for you", I paused (they made dessert?, aww) kept reading, "his name is Fafa, and he's awake".
As compassion and respect guide our parenting, like the stars guide our nightwalking, Neil let Forest, who was ultra-tired, go to sleep at 5 o'clock- it just turned out not to be for the night. He was up at 8. They watched Dragon Tales together till I got home at 11 and then we watched Dragon Tales some more. We talked about our day and what we would do tomorrow- that no one in the house was going out to work tomorrow. That we could sleep in cuz we had all day to play...
7 am. "Everyone's home today!!" Was what I woke to. After a 12:30am or later bedtime with Forest, crawling up onto the other bed when Nature cried out cuz he had to wee, helping him wee again later after giving him his bottle twice, sleepwalking to the fridge to fill it...
I was a grump. "Let me sleep", I pleaded. Alas, sleep was not in the cards.
This is a usual scenario. And the fact is, our parenting does not stop. Not at night. Not in the morning. Not when working outside the home. Not when Forest pushes Nature again, again, again, even though we've asked him 3 times politely to stop and then yelled at him and we want to go off and be alone and quit parenting- but we are still parenting, composing ourselves and hoping in the next breath to be better, gentler, clearer, more effective...
Our parenting goes hand in hand with our perspective of feeding ourselves. Our quest does not stop for healthy, fresh, biodynamic, pesticide-free food. We will seek it out and provide it for ourselves...until our bodies, nourished and organic, return to the soil.
We will parent our children until they have their own self-containment and wisdom. Parenting, of children, I conclude, does not stop.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Farm Starts Here.
The adventures of young back to landers, leaver people. Homesteading, small scale farming, foraging, hunting, free thought schooling, immigration and more.
While I dream of 'our' 12 wooded acres in North West Arkansas on a daily basis and long to be home, I also try hard to accept my lot in life today in New York, to help my self along I decide- the farm must start here.
It has to start somewhere. The seed was planted in my head along time ago that if I could provide most of my own food- not only would I and my family who I strive to also provide for be much healthier for it in every aspect, but, that also I would not be at the whim of tyrannical government, nor the economic problems that go part and parcel with the corporate pirate system that we are not so blessed to have think that they are controlling us. You can not control a man who provides his own food.
Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Liberal all pretty much boils down to the same thing when its the corporations who are in control. A republic is supposed to be a citizen run government and when it is again we will have this country back. The economy is not coming back. Not until it is realized that the economy is dependent on the environment. We must leave behind our old policy of 'Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later'.
The farm can and should start here for anyone who feels touched to do so. We need small farms. The industrialists are slowing killing us and the planet with the old way of doing things. Every house hold can do something to provide food for them selves and maybe even others. The odds are stacked and heavily regulated but more and more want local, chemical free, healthful, not genetically altered food. The more people that start farming now in a responsible manner- the sooner that poisoning our selves and planet will no longer be profitable, and when its not profitable- big business has no interest. Small farming can feed the country and it can be profitable!
'Beyond Organic' farms are needed. No need for a USDA stamp when you are the farmer or you know the farmer.
So slowly I start. The vegetable garden is looking beautiful and the rabbits and their young are growing safe and healthy- without being fed a single GMO grain, or any grain for that matter.
Soon the 12 acres of woods will surround us again in Arkansas. For now I start the transformation in New York.
The adventures of young back to landers, leaver people. Homesteading, small scale farming, foraging, hunting, free thought schooling, immigration and more.
While I dream of 'our' 12 wooded acres in North West Arkansas on a daily basis and long to be home, I also try hard to accept my lot in life today in New York, to help my self along I decide- the farm must start here.
It has to start somewhere. The seed was planted in my head along time ago that if I could provide most of my own food- not only would I and my family who I strive to also provide for be much healthier for it in every aspect, but, that also I would not be at the whim of tyrannical government, nor the economic problems that go part and parcel with the corporate pirate system that we are not so blessed to have think that they are controlling us. You can not control a man who provides his own food.
Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Liberal all pretty much boils down to the same thing when its the corporations who are in control. A republic is supposed to be a citizen run government and when it is again we will have this country back. The economy is not coming back. Not until it is realized that the economy is dependent on the environment. We must leave behind our old policy of 'Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later'.
The farm can and should start here for anyone who feels touched to do so. We need small farms. The industrialists are slowing killing us and the planet with the old way of doing things. Every house hold can do something to provide food for them selves and maybe even others. The odds are stacked and heavily regulated but more and more want local, chemical free, healthful, not genetically altered food. The more people that start farming now in a responsible manner- the sooner that poisoning our selves and planet will no longer be profitable, and when its not profitable- big business has no interest. Small farming can feed the country and it can be profitable!
'Beyond Organic' farms are needed. No need for a USDA stamp when you are the farmer or you know the farmer.
So slowly I start. The vegetable garden is looking beautiful and the rabbits and their young are growing safe and healthy- without being fed a single GMO grain, or any grain for that matter.
Soon the 12 acres of woods will surround us again in Arkansas. For now I start the transformation in New York.
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