The essential
Magnificent natural fresco on my littly piece of land
There is a sentence a friend wrote recently, I imagine that you can now concentrate more on the essential, since you have less sources of distractions such as TV, radio and this non-essential things which make me wonder what is the ultimate goal of my current endeavour that I started without much thinking, in a sort of frustration and yet leading to a selection of the essential.
The other day, 6 inches of rain fell down in a 24 hour period. As a result I had to go dig up some canals behing my cabin because water was running beneath the cabin as if there were a creek. It was a difficult task for the whole ground is made of roots, rock and mud beneath. I could at least make sure that for the time being no water would run beneath the cabin. That is the essential.
It certainly was not what she meant by "the essential" in her comment. But still, what is the essential. In any case it is clear that for the time being I must let go of material stuff. I still have a good amount of boxes in Maude's garage, especially books (around 800), paperwork of all sorts even though I emptied the content of 2 file cabinets of three drawer each of stuff I classified in there for the last 30 years or so. I also sent to recycling boxes of magazines, reports of all sorts.
Must I still throw away all that is left in order to reach the essential? There are houses where you can hardly find one book, but where you find three cars, trucks, three TVs, etc. Bigger bigger, more you want. Will my situation improve to the point of being able to repatriate everything under one roof, spread all over since July?
Since the cold season is rumbling in the background and the first snow today piled up at 5 to 6 inches, I did not have much time to build from A to Z a shelter strong enough to stack up 800 books though I would have loved to have all the books with me.
At this point I am incline to spend the whole winter alone reading. Everyone is welcome though. I've worked like krazy three years in a row. Never took real vacation. Some contracts are shit. When you are finished you are on your own and you are being discarted like old rags.
With globalization the work I've been doing for the last three years could eventually be given by contract to people in India. I would not be the first to be a victim of this tendency. Thus the urgency to learn to live within one's means for I have hardly any hope of improving dramatically my lot for some time to come due to the choices I made and my ethical positions.
I am really trying to strategically build myself a reasonable future under the circumstances where I can live decently on a string budget. My income is the same as it was 30 years ago, except that 30 years ago I was having a great time with that kind of money.
I was promise to a brilliant future with a life in a good standing. If I had maintain the trajectory. Such has not been the case preferring the unbeaten path to the highway all the time, going on foot instead of riding at 100 miles an hour. I have nothing and I am financially worth not a penny. That is the essential for me now. Pennyless and worthless in a society that put material and money above everything.
P.S. I forget my camera at the cabin. I took nice pics lately. Well, next time then.
The other day, 6 inches of rain fell down in a 24 hour period. As a result I had to go dig up some canals behing my cabin because water was running beneath the cabin as if there were a creek. It was a difficult task for the whole ground is made of roots, rock and mud beneath. I could at least make sure that for the time being no water would run beneath the cabin. That is the essential.
It certainly was not what she meant by "the essential" in her comment. But still, what is the essential. In any case it is clear that for the time being I must let go of material stuff. I still have a good amount of boxes in Maude's garage, especially books (around 800), paperwork of all sorts even though I emptied the content of 2 file cabinets of three drawer each of stuff I classified in there for the last 30 years or so. I also sent to recycling boxes of magazines, reports of all sorts.
Must I still throw away all that is left in order to reach the essential? There are houses where you can hardly find one book, but where you find three cars, trucks, three TVs, etc. Bigger bigger, more you want. Will my situation improve to the point of being able to repatriate everything under one roof, spread all over since July?
Since the cold season is rumbling in the background and the first snow today piled up at 5 to 6 inches, I did not have much time to build from A to Z a shelter strong enough to stack up 800 books though I would have loved to have all the books with me.
At this point I am incline to spend the whole winter alone reading. Everyone is welcome though. I've worked like krazy three years in a row. Never took real vacation. Some contracts are shit. When you are finished you are on your own and you are being discarted like old rags.
With globalization the work I've been doing for the last three years could eventually be given by contract to people in India. I would not be the first to be a victim of this tendency. Thus the urgency to learn to live within one's means for I have hardly any hope of improving dramatically my lot for some time to come due to the choices I made and my ethical positions.
I am really trying to strategically build myself a reasonable future under the circumstances where I can live decently on a string budget. My income is the same as it was 30 years ago, except that 30 years ago I was having a great time with that kind of money.
I was promise to a brilliant future with a life in a good standing. If I had maintain the trajectory. Such has not been the case preferring the unbeaten path to the highway all the time, going on foot instead of riding at 100 miles an hour. I have nothing and I am financially worth not a penny. That is the essential for me now. Pennyless and worthless in a society that put material and money above everything.
P.S. I forget my camera at the cabin. I took nice pics lately. Well, next time then.
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