Raising Eden

What Joel Salatin Taught Me about How to Live More Happily I was raised under the edict of: "Do it once, do it right."  I know a lot of us heard similar when we were growing up.  My Father is one of those controlling perfectionist types that held firstly himself and then his family to this standard.  I'm sure we can all get it; if you can spend a little more time and care to do something properly, it will save you the time and energy of having to do it over again. This idea holds up okay in a vacuum.  In a world without beginning or end where all the citizens did not age, grow, or learn, this would make total sense.  You know how to do something, nothing is going to change.  The circumstances will never change, so this is the best way, it will always be the best way, let's do our best to make it happen.  All makes total sense.  In a vacuum.   So I always tried to live by this standard....but it's hard, because we don't live in a vacuum...

I've wanted to start a blog for a long time.  I have a lot to say: lots of stories to tell, lots of thoughts in my brain all the time...  I've been a pent up writer here for years as we've been in first crisis and then transition in our lives.  But as the dust settles around me, as I start to put together everything that is happening in the world right now, I find myself concerned for the direction our world is headed.  And I feel more than ever that it's important to spread as much knowledge as possible as widely and passionately as I am able.  And more than ever I feel a burden to do whatever I can in this world to make it a better place and help as much as possible. So what can I do?  I can start a blog.   But when I do, I want to be clear to you, my readers, who exactly I am and who I am not.  Because I talk about a lot of things, and I talk about them with authority and intelligence and insight.  But that doesn't mak...