Steal this website
I spent this morning reawakening my inner rebel by reading Abbie Hoffman’s Steal this Book. To be sure I don’t believe theft and vandalism are to be encouraged for any reason, but what is left is a guide on being resourceful outside of the conventional box.
In a way this website is modeled after the same idea, the idea that a mom doesn’t have to have a job to have a life. The idea that food isn’t always at the grocery store, and that the schools don’t always know what is best for all children. I’ve been really negligent when it came to this blog, and for that I’m sorry, because these are the ideas that stack up as *good* in my book.
What I’ve been facing is a crisis of sorts, that crisis is time. With my school schedule looming in the near future, preparing my home for winter, squirreling away the last of the garden, and home educating the kids, it keeps a soul busy.
The more I think about it the more I think we should not protest commercialism or capitalism-at-any-cost. We should simply just do more making, more growing, and more adapting than buying. Eventually someone has to get the point, someone has to catch on that we can’t be run around like sheep, eating the grain we’re told to eat.
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To paraphrase another way it has been said is “Don’t curse the darkness but be a light”, which is to say be the model of the principles you see, don’t just point out the wrongs of others.
It is easy for me to get overwhelmed with “everything that needs to be changed” but I am learning to focus on being who I need to be and give others the opportunity to see the light I have.
Thanks for sharing your light, as a reminder and encouragement to me.