I am blogging late today because I went with Jamie to get milk from the Amish. We get six gallons a week and Jamie uses most of it for making cheese. She makes excellent cheese. So far she has made cheddar, mozzarella, blue cheese and cream cheese. Goat cheese is a special treat, but for everyday eating, I prefer cheese from cow's milk.
We were supposed to get nine to ten inches of snow. So far, we have escaped. They haven't changed the forecast, they have just pushed it forward. We are suppose to get that much by Friday Morning. I hope not.
More and more, we are trying to avoid buying food from the grocery store. We will probably never completely wean ourselves from the grocery store; there are many things that you can buy no where else. It is really nice to get food from people you know, that is raised without a plethora of chemicals.
The slowness of the Spring matches the slowness, of news, about the emerging of the new world. The main stream media is filled with dreadful, horrifying events. News of the emerging world is rare. The internet, however, carries much hopeful news [along with there usual paranoid offerings]. In Oakland, Detroit, Los Angeles, St. Louis and other cities across the nation there are groups of citizens taking responsibility for their welfare by raising their own food in vacant lots, front yards, median strips and anywhere else a piece of ground is available and not being used. They have met a little challenge, from municipalities, that they have been able to deal with. These movements have been about much more that raising food. They have been about nutritional education and teaching a new awareness of nature and Mother Earth. Reading about these groups engenders great hope for the future of humanity.
Also, old issues, that appeared settled are again rising to the surface. One such, is the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Sirhan Sirhan's lawyer is asking for a new trial based on evidence overlooked or suppressed at the time and new evidence. Many people, at the time, were not comfortable with the governments version of events. I thought something was fishy, then, but had no way to find out the facts. Any doubt one has is waived away and you are accused of being a conspiracy theorist. The charge of being a conspiracy theorist has been extremely effective in silencing people who question and look for truth. Nobody wants to be crazy and it takes a lot of self esteem to look for the truth when society thinks your nuts. I read the article on the AlterNet.
Starting soon, hopefully next week, I am going to cite the blogs and websites I read, so that you can just click on them. I apologize for not doing this sooner. I would like to use the excuse that I am 78 and I didn't see my first computer until I was fifty. I can't get away with that. I know I could have learned how to do it, before now.
Another thing, one of my primary motivations was to write about how to survive, living off the land. We know a great deal about this and I would like to share what I know. I don't have a sense of where people are at or what folks want to know. Jamie or I are happy to answer any question. If, it seems, that it is not information for the blog we can answer in the comment section or by e-mail.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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