Category: People Care

Change is a Constant, Loving it Isn’t

Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Create Vision and Respond to Change, Inner Permaculture, Make No Waste, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback

It seems like life should be good all the time.  That there should be no sad days, or days where I just don’t feel motivated to do much of anything.  But they exist – we just don’t talk about them.  The days we feel we are in our darkest places are the days where our […]

August 21, 2019

Freedom Fighter

Consumerism, Create Vision and Respond to Change, From Pattern to Details, Inner Permaculture, Make No Waste, Observe and Interact, Obtain a Yield, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback

Patterns for consumerism are so easy to slide into.  This way of being and relating to the world has become so innate that it feels normal.  Our family is dedicated to reducing the number of purchases we make, but still, we end up slipping into the mind trap of ‘consumption means progress.’ We are just […]

June 16, 2018

The Greatest Things

Catch and Store Energy, Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Consumerism, Create Vision and Respond to Change, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback, Unschooling

“Great Things are done by a series of small things being brought together” -Vincent VanGogh As we inch our way into 2018 we have found ourselves commiserating about all of the things that we did not accomplish in 2017.  The gardens weren’t well tended and yields were low, we didn’t have any goslings in the […]

January 14, 2018

Feels like Home

Choose Small and Slow Solutions, Create Vision and Respond to Change, Inner Permaculture, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback

There has been a long period since moving to the farm where I have missed the old house.  It is not so much a laundry listing of things I miss about it (although this has happened on numerous occasions), but it presented more as a guttural emotional response at the loss of my previous life.  […]

March 15, 2017

Parenting Community

Create Vision and Respond to Change, Inner Permaculture, Integrate, Don't Segregate, Observe and Interact, People Care, Permaculture Ethics, Permaculture Principles, Self-Regulate and Accept Feedback

I have been thinking about what skills I might need in order to live in community.  I have thought about what would help to make me feel safe and comfortable.  What would allow me to feel fully present and myself?  Thinking about these questions made me realize that the times when I’m most comfortable are […]

June 15, 2016