Becoming B on Nostr: "What’s important is finding out what works for you.” ~ Thomas Moore 5:50 AM. ...
"What’s important is finding out what works for you.” ~ Thomas Moore
5:50 AM. This quote speaks to me in so many ways. I'm going to play with it for 20 minutes before I go out to start the mail jeep.
One thing Daniel Quinn got across to me in his teaching novels was that life is more fruitful focusing on what works instead of what's right and wrong. The former is more of an engineering mindset; the latter you get into rules and religion. Both are important nonetheless.
We learned early on keeping our kids out of school works for them and us. Most parents nowadays work all day, then run their kids here and there for activities afterwards never spending time together as a family. We eat home cooked meals together 7 days a week.
I occasionally ask our kids if they want to go to school. It's always an emphatic no. With the access to the Internet they're privy to the same information we are. They see school has a place to be potentially bullied or shot and killed. It's prison like to them.
Shifting to a single income family has worked for us so far. Annie is home with the kids to help them on their learning journeys. Kids don't need school. School is primarily there to keep them off the job market. Everything revolves around the health and growth of our economy. It's about products over people. Schooling is no different.
That's not to say some kids benefit greatly from school and there are some amazing teachers out there. Again, it's what works for them.
I know that plowing up fields and spraying them with fertilizers and herbicides is bad for the land and our bodies. Cancer sucks. So we grow native plants with what Thoreau famously said in mind:
"In wildness is the preservation of the world."
Turn to the wild with an open heart and open mind and we see what works.
Well, that was fun. Now it's time to get ready for the mail trail. I hope you have great day! And I hope I didn't ruffle too many feathers. But then again, that might be why you made it this far.
Fire #118
1.30.25
5:50 AM. This quote speaks to me in so many ways. I'm going to play with it for 20 minutes before I go out to start the mail jeep.
One thing Daniel Quinn got across to me in his teaching novels was that life is more fruitful focusing on what works instead of what's right and wrong. The former is more of an engineering mindset; the latter you get into rules and religion. Both are important nonetheless.
We learned early on keeping our kids out of school works for them and us. Most parents nowadays work all day, then run their kids here and there for activities afterwards never spending time together as a family. We eat home cooked meals together 7 days a week.
I occasionally ask our kids if they want to go to school. It's always an emphatic no. With the access to the Internet they're privy to the same information we are. They see school has a place to be potentially bullied or shot and killed. It's prison like to them.
Shifting to a single income family has worked for us so far. Annie is home with the kids to help them on their learning journeys. Kids don't need school. School is primarily there to keep them off the job market. Everything revolves around the health and growth of our economy. It's about products over people. Schooling is no different.
That's not to say some kids benefit greatly from school and there are some amazing teachers out there. Again, it's what works for them.
I know that plowing up fields and spraying them with fertilizers and herbicides is bad for the land and our bodies. Cancer sucks. So we grow native plants with what Thoreau famously said in mind:
"In wildness is the preservation of the world."
Turn to the wild with an open heart and open mind and we see what works.
Well, that was fun. Now it's time to get ready for the mail trail. I hope you have great day! And I hope I didn't ruffle too many feathers. But then again, that might be why you made it this far.
Fire #118
1.30.25