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by Sarah McTernen
Tacoma, WA 2015
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Sarah McTernen
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Friday, March 6, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Cleaning is the Death of Creativity, Apparently
I am in a rut.
I am stuck in a deep creative rut that has proven difficult to climb out of.
Since at least the beginning of February I have been purging the house. I decided to do it methodically this time. I started in the farthest corner of my house and cleaned/purged until I got to the office. I still have got quite a bit to do in here, but all this cleaning has drained my brain of creative ability.
The sun is shining outside, pulling me away from my dark office.
Too many worries on my mind.
How do you get yourself out of a rut?
Thanks for reading,
Sarah
www.anardentlife.com
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Everything is Politics
In recent months I have come to a realization. The world is way too politically oriented.
As a society, we have made some bad decisions because of
expansion: monoculture, factory farming, factory food. We have thrown away the basic knowledge of
the land and biology. This is not saying
that science can't help, but it has to be hand in hand with the natural order
of things that worked consistently before we started mucking with it. On top of
all that, you have to worry about whose politics you are stepping on when you
start talking about actual issues. Okay,
who cares why the world is getting warmer, it is, ever so slightly, but things
are changing. Let’s take the knowledge
and start to adapt. Let’s make informed
decisions and move on; stop arguing about what caused it.
We look to the government to fix….everything. Somehow we think these individuals who do not
spend their days in the dirt are going to completely understand what it means
to spend your days in the dirt. They don’t
and government never will. We live in an
age where you can say something in the morning and the entire world has read it
by lunchtime. The government cannot help
you. You can help you. You and the guy down the road who is dealing
with the same problem and the community two towns over. The government is always going to make bad decisions. It is bad at healthcare, farming, nutrition,
road maintenance, building things, etc.
Those things are our responsibilities.
It doesn’t matter what political party you belong to. It doesn’t matter who you voted for in the
last election. What matters is that
these things get done. We, as a society,
need to stop waiting around for someone to do everything for us. We let some stranger grow and often cook our
food. We let some stranger tell us how
to heal our bodies. We let some stranger
dictate how to feed our poor. We give
away all of our power to some stranger and then rail at the “way things are”.
I wish we could knock down the toppling tower that we have
built and start over, but unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. We live in a world where everything is about
politics from bees, to marriage, to your MRI results. The actuality of life is being overlooked
because it is not politically viable.
The way we grow and eat food as a society, doesn’t work. It isn’t about your waistline, it is about
the life cycle of a plant that we have forgotten. The way we go to the doctor doesn’t work. It isn’t about your insurance, it is about
the amazing world of human anatomy that we are just now scientifically proving
but that in-tune people have always intuitively known. Take a minute to look at the life around
you. Take a minute to see what problems
you can fix, what mess you can clean up, and do it. If we all clean up after ourselves, the world
will be just fine.Thank you for reading,
Sarah McTernen
www.anardentlife.com
Source of rant: http://earthjustice.org/features/the-perfect-crime
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