Keeping It Real
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On this Election Day, I Abstain
There was a time when I participated in the American election process because I thought it was the right thing to do. I thought voting was a privilege and that my vote mattered. But that time is no more. I have come to realize several things, which now cause me to entirely abstain from the process.
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Crazy, Yet Not So Crazy
For years, I think people have seen me as crazy & wanting to opt out of society. My husband and I have neither worked “a job” nor voted in any political elections for the past 10-15 years. Our kids haven’t gone to any public school and our family doesn’t attend church anymore. We don’t have a cellphone or use wi-fi, and I haven’t gotten involved with much social media online beyond Facebook. (And I’ve grown to despise Facebook.) For a long time now I’ve been seeing something wrong with the mainstream society, and I realized years ago that the problem stemmed from the System in which it operates. It’s not…
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Mother Earth is Not My God
In the course of my research on Permaculture principles and living a more natural lifestyle I find a lot of attention is often given to “Mother Earth” (aka “Mother Nature” or “Gaia/Gaea”) all over the place…in magazines, books, videos, etc. While I recognize the value of the land, and I can see how the land can be identified as our mother, I am not an advocate for Gaia worship, and I prefer not to call the earth or nature our mother because of where that leads people in their minds. Mother Earth is Not My God I believe in a Creator, who is identified in the Bible simply as “God”. I…
