As much as I want to be a wholly joyous about the fact that Henry Kissinger is finally fucking dead, as he deserves... There's a lot of me that can't help being upset with. With the fact that he lived to 100 years old. He got better medical care, better housing, and a better, more stable life for those 100 years than billions on this planet ever going to see and he did it specifically through exploitation, state sanctioned murder, and lies. He lived to 100 years comfortably on a legacy of violence that rarely threatened his personal comfort. I want to be joyous that he's finally dead, because the world IS better with him dead, but the reality is he won a long time ago.
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My favourite trail near me is Wolf Trail.. It's a climb up almost all the way and then you get this view 馃挌
The only problem now is that it is pretty much the most 'difficult' trail in my area so I'm chomping at the bit to go visit other forests 馃敟
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I love the diversity of self-sustainable life! I never have to do the same thing 2 days in a row! Every day I鈥檓 learning new things and gaining new skills, and each one I learn will provide me with a different option and gain in the future!
Last week I was all about canning sour cherries but this week I discovered some wild plums and figured I could make them into jam, so I started to get on that! But, then while removing seeds I realize they鈥檙e very watery inside, and that I could probably make a very easy freshly squeezed juice out of them, so I did! And guess what! It鈥檚 awesome! I got to try a new variety of fresh squeezed juice just because I accidentally discovered the fruit on my way foraging around! How cool is that!
And I鈥檒l get a wild plum jam which is also an item that I鈥檝e never seen, tried, experienced or is available at the store. That鈥檚 just neat!
I鈥檓 finding mint and rhubarb and eating cucumbers for the first time this year!
And then next week I鈥檒l probably have bunch of tomatoes and will be trying out all tomato recipes I鈥檝e been missing from last summer, and I might try new recipes too! And this year I will have enough green beans to try drying them, I am dying to see how that turns out. I鈥檓 already drying zuchinni because I found out this winter that it tastes incredible in a sauce!
And it鈥檚 not all food-related activities, last week I got some unwanted clothes from a friend, was able to keep some, and send some to other friends who I knew could use it - I also gained new sewing materials that way, and I could make another shirt now, or use it to put together a rug or a rope!
I also went looking into nettle more, and found out that old people used to use it to fight joint pain, and they would purposefully sting their wrists and ankles and pained joints with nettle, because it improved circulation and nerve function. I thought, well maybe that would work for me, and tried it on one wrist, and it was pretty funny because it only hurt for the first few seconds, and then my wrist didn鈥檛 exactly hurt that day, but it was prickly and weird and then I realized it was just one annoyance replaced with another, and this was probably a trick for actual old-age joint pain, not psychosomatic pain I experience. But I tried it and it was fun! I鈥檓 going to look into willow as a pain-relief next.
I also found out that in some cold climates, you can grow potatoes in the fall then keep them in the soil thru all winter, how cool is that! That鈥檚 something worth trying!
How exciting is that? Instead of having to repeat a job every day, to constantly be about new stuff, having a different type of activity and learning experience every single day? And all of the activities are volountary, if you don鈥檛 go looking for a specific plant or you don鈥檛 go planting it, you just don鈥檛 have that, and life goes on! None of it is punished, you cannot get fired, you make what you want to have and what you find fun to make. This is enriching life!
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