Saturday, September 19, 2009

The "Simple" Life

Okay, darn it...it's time for some transparent (am I ever anything else?) venting...

You know I am attracted to the "simple" life...let's clarify "simple" first...that by no means has anything at all to do with simple as in ....no worries, no work, laid back, take a break, shoot the breeze simple....it means simple as in nothing fancy, okay?  Now that we have that cleared up....


My summer has consisted of work.  The garden, the chores, the animals, the furniture finishing, the yearbook, the household chores, child rearing, etc. ....  There has been no break.  We have not taken a vacation.  We haven't even taken a weekend off.  And I'm telling you...you get lots of "wow, I really admire what ya'll are doing"...especially from the older generation.  They seem to think it's wonderful that you know how to garden, can, milk a goat, stay out of debt...etc.  And that feels good...only it occurs to you as you go back to your chores that these same older people have newer vehicles, technology, and debt than you do.  What's wrong with that picture?  Now I know you could make the argument that they've worked their whole lives to get to where they are but if the simple life is all that great, why aren't they still living it?  And I read things all the time about people who are loving the simple life and living in "simple" grandeur.  Now either they've figured out something I haven't or they just aren't being transparent.  This life is work, darn it.  And at the moment, I'm tired of it.  And that's all I have for ya at the moment....

1 comment:

  1. yep, little girl i grew up in the SIMPLE LIFE; that meant----an acre of garden, a wrap around porch to sweep, { perfect, or do it over},hogs to feed stoe wood "stove wood" cook stove that is; oh yeah, and 105 degree cooking in the summer dishes to wash in sink, no hot water in the house EVER except on the woodstove in kitchen, toilet out half mile behind the barn {it seemed} finally when i was 15 a party line telephone [man was that fun] unless i was the one trying to talk sexy with some boy and could hear a neighbor breathing in the phone. oh forgot transportation--that was a trip++well sometimes, if we could get my uncle or a neighbor to bring their old rattletrap stinking car or scrowdeg up truck full of beer cans they swept aside for me and my litl ole 70sh year old grandmaw to ride in. either they drove 20 miles an hour or 70 around the very curvy bakersville and burnsville mountain side. OK you're saying LET ME TELL YOU THE SIMPLE LIFE IS FOR THE WILD LIFE 4 FOOTED KIND as soon as i got a chance you see how i take care of each of those "simple things" i get anyway i can the "hard life things" if thats the opposite of the other??? i do believe with all my heart and a few years of experience that our creator GOD in the heavens intended for us to use in anyway righteous; the things HE lays at our feet most of the time we have to reach out and GRAB it and hold on for dear life. so i will advise you my prescious daughter REACH OUT THERE AND GRAB THE THINGS IN LIFE THAT WILL MAKE YOUR DAYS FULL OF JOY AND COMFORT YES COMFORT

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