Sometimes the answer is nothing
"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”― Albert Einstein
"The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, these are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?" Gandolf
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"Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back." (Derrick Jensen)
Judith Browning wrote:you run and hide the pee bucket so the bathroom will look 'normal' when someone comes to visit who just wouldn't get it...and you don't want to spend time explaining...
This is why we don't have company!
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"It's all one song!" -Neil Young
Judith Browning wrote:
This is why we don't have company!
haha, Tristan...we're in town now and have folks just stop by...I'm getting quicker.
another that only a permie would understand...
...you and your husband/partner/friend talk about how to perfect composting toilets through dinner
With forty shades of green, it's hard to be blue.
Garg 'nuair dhùisgear! Virtutis Gloria Merces
Kate Muller wrote:All your condiments in the fridge are in unlabeled mason jars.
Jennifer Meyer wrote:Why label them? You can see what's inside. Anybody who can't figure it out shouldn't be in there.
Jennifer Meyer wrote:I have celiac, too. I simply don't let anything in the house that has gluten, dextrose, maltodextrin, or MSG.
Jennifer Meyer wrote: Deb, I get what you say. My spouse can and does eat whatever he wants--when he isn't in my kitchen. I'm really sensitive to gluten, so my eating options are limited to home ,home, and home. I've been sick often enough from supposedly "safe" foods that hubby is happier not nursing me than eating cheap cookies and bread.
On that note, how many permies are into natural medicine, such as homeopathy? Or is that worthy of a new topic?
Madeleine Innocent wrote:
Jennifer Meyer wrote: Deb, I get what you say. My spouse can and does eat whatever he wants--when he isn't in my kitchen. I'm really sensitive to gluten, so my eating options are limited to home ,home, and home. I've been sick often enough from supposedly "safe" foods that hubby is happier not nursing me than eating cheap cookies and bread.
On that note, how many permies are into natural medicine, such as homeopathy? Or is that worthy of a new topic?
That should be a new topic, and after the Great Randi put up $1 million and won over a doubleblind homeopathic clinical lab study, I don't subscribe to homeopathy. Eating local food yes, eating landrace, definitely, and if you're not allergic, eating local honey to help your seasonal allergies, yes.
You might be a Permie if you use a solar cooker you made from cardboard, aluminum foil, and a piece of window glass even if you are on the grid. (I make the world's best bean soup that way)
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