It's been a while friends, we have been keeping busy! For the past few months we've been on the look out and have been scouring central NM for a small piece of land, even for someone with some land we can use or rent out an acre.
Its an exciting time and we find ourselves having endless conversations about what we are envisioning or just bouncing ideas off each other, in the car, at the farmers market, in bed, texting while the other is at work just because we need them to know this incredible idea that just hatched a trove of possibilities ASAP! We are both hours deep into farming books by the best & most practiced. We draw out plans while out getting dinner on the back of whatever piece of writable surface I can find in my purse, and can barely eat with all the thinking going on. We research the cheapest ways to acquire or build the equipment we will need. Using our combined abilities to the fullest capacity and having eruptions of ideas...I have to record sometimes just to keep track of all the golden bits of perfect magic that are just floating by and we are finally just pulling them out of the universe!
We could literally change anything in the plan at this moment and not cause any problems or loss, most of the changes we are making right now are to save us time, energy, and money. Its great to have Cameron's knowledge of running a meat department, which he has been doing for years, so he has the background that I do not. I just ground him when he starts getting ahead of himself...he is so forward-thinking and a dreamer by nature. I keep reminding him that this is the best part, one day we'll miss this stage, the anything-is-possible stage.
Note-taking, researching, and drawing up whatever we imagine for our farm, because I am a firm believer that: you really can have it all. If the planning is right and well thought out, why should we limit what is possible. Its all that 'positive visualization' talk that gets me going, if all it takes is visualizing your dreams in a positive way, then it can't hurt to try. Cameron has said, "I just want to be able to look back one day and say to myself 'damn you were killing it dude' at every period of my life" and that is how he tries to live (in his own kind of Southwestern skater wisdom), just by thinking like that he is "killing it" everyday, every year. The way I see it, the accumulation of good days makes for a good life.
Politically though, Cameron & I are not necessarily on the same page. With this presidential race starting up, there are several conversations we are avoiding at our house...occasionally we do go for it, it gets intense, but each time we learn & grow. I have a innate aversion to authority which I almost always equate to oppression. While he sees the need for law & order and tells me there may be a political career in his future...(uhtohh!)
...but what we both can agree on is that:
we CAN stop the ice caps from melting,
we CAN stop foreign wars,
we CAN stop poverty,
we CAN stop hunger,
etc, etc...
we can tackle these huge global issues with these simple instructions:
Change yourself, change the world.
If we no longer depend on oil, if we no longer require 9-5s or bosses or debt, if we no longer get trapped by the advertising, the propaganda, and the rat race, if we encourage & respect one another, if we live in abundance, in sustainability, and raise our next generation with these abilities & skills...its simple
change yourself, change the world!
If we answer only to ourselves, each other, our community & work hard to make us proud, how wouldn't the world be changed, improved!
We know that we are not alone in feeling & thinking this way, we know there are other renegades like us out there. We are many & we are one.
Forever changing,
forever grateful*
jennifer
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| there will be lots of sunflowers |
We could literally change anything in the plan at this moment and not cause any problems or loss, most of the changes we are making right now are to save us time, energy, and money. Its great to have Cameron's knowledge of running a meat department, which he has been doing for years, so he has the background that I do not. I just ground him when he starts getting ahead of himself...he is so forward-thinking and a dreamer by nature. I keep reminding him that this is the best part, one day we'll miss this stage, the anything-is-possible stage.
Politically though, Cameron & I are not necessarily on the same page. With this presidential race starting up, there are several conversations we are avoiding at our house...occasionally we do go for it, it gets intense, but each time we learn & grow. I have a innate aversion to authority which I almost always equate to oppression. While he sees the need for law & order and tells me there may be a political career in his future...(uhtohh!)
...but what we both can agree on is that:
we CAN stop the ice caps from melting,
we CAN stop foreign wars,
we CAN stop poverty,
we CAN stop hunger,
etc, etc...
we can tackle these huge global issues with these simple instructions:
Change yourself, change the world.
If we no longer depend on oil, if we no longer require 9-5s or bosses or debt, if we no longer get trapped by the advertising, the propaganda, and the rat race, if we encourage & respect one another, if we live in abundance, in sustainability, and raise our next generation with these abilities & skills...its simple
change yourself, change the world!
If we answer only to ourselves, each other, our community & work hard to make us proud, how wouldn't the world be changed, improved!
We know that we are not alone in feeling & thinking this way, we know there are other renegades like us out there. We are many & we are one.
forever grateful*
jennifer
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