I've done maintenance, professional massage, made herbal concoctions, grown food, raised animals, learned doula support, business management, fiddled with natural fermentations, and formed cheese... I've even put on an army uniform for a few years.
I've spent the bulk of my adult years in school, whether online, traditional college, trade school, or at my own hand (привет, anyone? Bonjour!). My next big leap was meant to be ayurveda, just to round me out, but with COVID hanging around, it's up in the air. That was meant to be my last big educational step before heading out of the country for the 4th time. I feel like there's something big out there for me, and I just have to get there to understand it. But, I digress.
But the more I'm learning about natural subjects, the more I think we never should have lost it... The more I think, everyone should have this information... And the more I think about this, the less I want to charge money for it.
All these things I can do, it's all online or in a few excellent books. Anyone can find the information I have. I know, I've searched for it. I've heard that if you have a few good friends, there's no need for a therapist (generally speaking). I feel that way about providing support as a doula, about asking someone to pay me for food that grows with almost zero input from me, things that basically grow themselves. All this is out there, if only we had had that elder to teach us, or to support us (doula) with information. It's nature, it's natural. And nature doesn't have a coin slot.
I consider a few hundred years ago, before margarine and standard shoe sizes, how did people live without a 9-5? It's rhetoric, of course; I've seen James Townsend and sons, read Little House on the Prairie, and I understand bartering. Enamored, yes. How the hell do I get back there?
How can I live without asking for cash? Reduced spending will help, absolutely. That's easy. Grow your food, make your clothes, go off-grid and live simply.
But how does a person live in this world without pimping out the body or the brain with payable tasks? I detest the idea of being just another commodity.
