tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post8235754059514822557..comments2023-11-03T12:44:19.948+01:00Comments on Orwell's Picnic ~: You don't have to live like they tell you: dare to be "poor" on purposeHilary Jane Margaret Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-59592145334447368932018-05-06T22:14:11.110+02:002018-05-06T22:14:11.110+02:00Will do Hilary. Thank you.
ChloeWill do Hilary. Thank you.<br /><br />ChloeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-27045650525056836862018-04-23T17:05:59.702+02:002018-04-23T17:05:59.702+02:00A beautiful piece. One reason to revisit subject ...A beautiful piece. One reason to revisit subject matter on your blog from time to time. It can strike one differently at different times. As a 50-year-old also, I have been turning over my own dissatisfaction with modernity; for me, this came to a head through the lens of pilgrimage. My wife and I walked the Camino de Santiago all too briefly this March, but in that brief time the whole concept of time changed for me—the process became all. What do I do? I walk. I pack light, freeing myself of burdens I don’t really need and tha5 would get in the way. I eat. I pray. Everything slow, everything real. Quite refreshing. After all, only one day did I reach my goal— just as in life. And even after that, I still picture myself out there, still yearn to be out there. Not having much of a veil between God and me. I don’t know. I’m rambling. But I read your post and just loved it. Thanks. <br /><br />Timthetimmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15876191646664989795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-61561991234643184302018-04-22T13:26:50.134+02:002018-04-22T13:26:50.134+02:00This is great Chloe. Let me know how it goes. This is great Chloe. Let me know how it goes. Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-27863823026696279222018-04-21T21:04:57.693+02:002018-04-21T21:04:57.693+02:00Well, thanks to you, I have the beginnings of my h...Well, thanks to you, I have the beginnings of my hugelkultur in my doormat sized garden. I'm expecting a delivery of turf which the man promised me for free when I told him I was going to lay it face down, because I don't need lawn stripes. I wish I could build my dream cob house, but to get any land to build it on in the UK would probably cost me more than I would get selling my present place. Even if I could find any where I want to live. Plus the fact that I'm not the only person involved <br /><br />Potatoes next. Let's hope I don't kill everything like I normally do. So here I am, faint but pursuing...<br /><br />ChloeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-12866248022470334592018-04-21T19:04:00.615+02:002018-04-21T19:04:00.615+02:00I figured it out about 20 years ago, while I was i...I figured it out about 20 years ago, while I was in the shower. I hate showers. Hate em. I hate all that stuff flying towards your face, like the volleyball in gym class. I hate the fact that you're cold everywhere except the parts the water isn't actually touching, so you have to keep turning around just to keep from getting cold all over. And you can fall over in the shower really easy. It's dangerous. <br /><br />But mostly I figured out that they're goal oriented. The purpose of a shower is to get out again as quickly as possible, basically to stop showering. They're designed to make you want to stop. <br /><br />A bath is process oriented. The whole thing is a ritual. Warming the room. Filling the tub. Getting the right essential oils. Giving yourself a good scrub, maybe with some sea salt and honey scrub you made for yourself, and a rinse before you get in. Every step is about that step. You're doing a thing for the sake of doing it, not so you can get out again as quickly as possible. <br /><br />Showers were made by the industrial revolution to keep people barely clean enough to not be socially unbearable, and to make sure they didn't enjoy the process at all. They are designed to alter our entire mindset about how to live our lives: do every personal thing as quickly as you can to maximise the time you can spend in the factory; serving the machine is your main purpose. Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-14226881676597927422018-04-21T17:56:43.017+02:002018-04-21T17:56:43.017+02:00"Life isn't goal-oriented, but process or..."Life isn't goal-oriented, but process oriented." <br />What a perfect definition of life lived instead of endured. Thank you for insight well said. <br /><br />Linda Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com