It is cool, only 57F. We had a fire in our living room stove last night to be cozy. Last week we were sweltering in the heat. It has been raining off and on these last few days, no great deluge, a little less than an inch in three days.
Washing my keyboards was a great success. I am now using the original one; not the click/clack. I am not sure which one I like the best. I think it will be this one, after I get reoriented to it. They take a long time to dry. I put them out in the Sun every day. One took three or four days and the other five or six.
Our garden is greatly in need of harvesting. We must have over a bushel of beans on the vines. One thing and another we haven't got to it. Now it is too wet. I have cucumbers to pickle. Things come all at once, but it always works out. The Whitney Crab tree is loaded. They make excellent sauce. The abundance is great.
It is raining harder now and it must be washing away my thoughts. I was looking forward to blogging today, as I have my old keyboard, and there seems to be some interesting things happening in the world. It all seems far away now. Well, everything I have been reading, since Monday, would indicate we are, incrementally, approaching a collapse. Some writers talk about days, rather than weeks or months. The schemes, to keep things afloat, are failing.
Other than to be warned, so we are not too surprised, there is not much we can prepare for. We don't really know how the collapse will unfold. Jamie and I have always kept reserves of dried beans, rice, salt, coffee beans etc. and we have freezers full of garden produce. This is something we have done for years. We have been snowed in for three days. We have had our electricity cut off for an equal time. We like the comfort of knowing we would get by for a few weeks if push came to shove. I believe that is a natural attitude developed by the back-to-the-landers of the seventies. I think it behooves everybody to have a few basic food stuffs, that can be easily stored, and would last for a couple weeks.
I came from a family, of several generations, of food preservers. My Mother canned two hundred quarts of tomatoes one year. We always had a full larder of home canned jams and jellies, often from wild fruits. Some years, we had blackberry jam everyday in our lunches, on home made bread. I didn't appreciate it then. I wanted that bologna sandwich my friend had.
In the community I grew up in, most people kept a larder, I don't think anybody was worried about a disaster, I think it was just a natural attitude of the time. Of course, my parents and grandparents went through the great depression, but perhaps, it had more to do, with the fact, that the attitudes, the settlers brought over from Europe, hadn't yet died out. The peasants of Europe had always kept as much food in storage as they possibly could. They were dependent on what they could raise and gather.
I am not sure, material things, are the greatest things we need to be concerned about. I think we need to open our hearts and minds to all those we see in need. I think we need to understand that love is expressed in service, to our neighbors, and we must be prepared to help in anyway we can. And we have no idea what that will be.
I don't think there will be a sudden crash. Although, it may seem sudden if one was not paying attention. I think the air will go our of our financial system, slowly, and things will grind slowly to a halt. But then I am not a prophet; I am just a guy, who lives a few miles South of Ogilvie, Minnesota, and likes to pay attention.
It seems to me the only way we can prepare is to get our spiritual/psychological act together. Why did we choose to be on the Earth at this time? Have we been involved in a major world change before? Do we have some knowledge/experience to contribute to the rebuilding of society? Can we visualize what a sane world would look like? This time, will we be able to build a world based on Love?
If we can learn to live in the moment and love in the moment [love without reservation or restriction], we will make the right decisions as we go along. We cannot know what those decisions will be; but we can know they will be based on love. So all the preparation we need to do, is to clean up our act. As we have said before, create paradise around ourselves, then we can extend it to others.
This is not something to be overwhelmed by. Sure, we are still regularly falling on our faces. We are still getting into unbelievable squabbles with family members. We still get angry. We still get depressed. But we have intent! We want to be Loving Beings. Behind the ego facade, we are loving beings. We are imperfectly 'perfect' and we will create a perfect world with our intent.
Whenever we find ourselves, off the smooth path and into the brambles, or stumbling over rocks, we can pause and ask ourselves, "Is this what we want?" We can allow ourselves to be gently put back on the path. The light is shining bright! It beckons to all of us. We are heading in the right direction.
Love and Peace, Gregg
No comments:
Post a Comment