Today I am sitting on a sunny porch overlooking a sweet winding river whose mirrored surface blurs shades of fall and sprinkles it with glistening sparkles. This is how we were meant to live.
During my mesmerizing nature dream where I am hoping the tomatoes ripen before the frost I am interrupted by a call from a city, a harrowed hurried voice tells me woeful tales wherein there is not enough time to implement all errands, responsibilities and work commitments, this is a young woman trying to make it in the world.
My heart cries inside as I realize she would be better off just leaving the city and all its demands and become an earthling again. "Life" as we refer to it, is not life anymore. It has become a treadmill toward accruing and then maintaining stuff. It is a self made prison where we have the key to let ourselves in and lock ourselves in.
We could get together and lift so many of the burdens of life by sharing and helping one another out. These could be such wealthy independent units that would eventually become so self sufficient that they would be able to unhook from the life support system that we are currently hooked up to and which enslaves us.
Earth, water and sky provide everything we need free, they are the building blocks from which to shape a life. Instead of investing a few hundred thousand units of minted paper not even backed by gold, into a box of air in a trendy neighborhood up in a high rise "condo/loft", I say buy a plot of land.
As you earn your money you can begin building, even if it means living in a tent for a while as you slowly transfer. This way you can also save up money for property taxes and when your income reaches a place where it does not cover your property taxes then you will still be able to live in your dream place and not give it up after working so hard on it all your life. If you don't earn money you can be useful within your community and earn what you need from other community members. There are many practically free building materials out there such as straw bale, adobe and earth houses made from recycled "trash" such as tires and bottles. If I had to start over this is what I would do. There are also jobs in rural areas if everyone didn't leave them to go and make a fortune in the cities. If you need an education there is a multi million dollar library in a laptop, teach yourself, there are also online degrees to be had.
I have noticed that many people work so hard all their lives, teachers, firemen and women, community workers and nurses, and after retirement they can no longer afford to stay where they have lived because of the constant raising of property taxes. They should be exempt from this as a reward for for being community workers. How sad it is to see these good people practically evicted by a ruthless system and have to spend the rest of their lives somewhere cheaper and then some rich $#%@^&*er comes in and takes over the place they have spent 30 years pouring their love into and usually rips it all out and redecorates.
We have got to put a stop to this people, this is our earth to enjoy while we are here, we need to be stewards of it, nurture it and live on it. When women have control of their own reproductive systems the population tends to balance itself out accordingly, so don't tell me there is not enough land for us to share and still have room for all the animals to live in peace too. We can do this, the river is telling me we can do this, the young, burdened woman calling from the city needs to do this so that all her stress dissipates into the leaves of the trees, the setting sun and the river pulls her worries from her heart and washes her burdens away. Oh I must be smokin' crack to think anyone will buy this! Well actually a lot of people are already doing this and saw the light a long time ago. Hook up with the link below for a youtube journey of building enlightenment.
The Goddess of Giving.
Awaken unto this planet of gifts
Her ingenuity and creativity
Rare among planets,
The dark depths and white heights
Work in synchronicity
To bring you a visual feast
Of ever changing artistry
Through the zenith of chemistry
Arranging all elements constantly
That you might be fed and clothed royally,
She winks at all of us lovingly,
Asking:
Do you not see?
Let not your blindness be
The end of humanity,
I provide abundance
Through harmony.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBPoWelEQmM
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