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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As much as I try to keep my personal politics and philosophy away from my DIY ethics, I find that the two are intrinsically bound together. It warms the cockles of my heart every time I walk past the strawberry starts that we put in the ground two days ago. I feel the brisk purr of excitement when I can salvage an old motor. I am giddy with anticipation when I find a box of old keys or a forgotten package of polymer clay or a stash of vintage fabrics in the back of a closet.
There’s something thoroughly okay with the world when I can stick it to the man with a pair of hand knit socks and a dozen homemade doughnuts.
Back to the point: I’d rather not waste time protesting consumerism and commercialism and slave wages. My time and resources are better spent supporting graciousness and independence, and I don’t think I want to curb that impulse. So I’m going to go with it.
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