My dream for Kenny Ray

"make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody."

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Batteries recharged

I was reading my favorite blog yesterday The Deliberate Agrarian. It always helps me when I get depressed and wander If I am doing the right thing by trying to move my family full time to the farm. I always have the same questions is it fair to Kenny Ray? Would I deprive him of opportunities? Am I living in the past?
These things always worry me. Most of the people around me think I am crazy for wanting to give a successful career and lower my standard of living. I always need a pep talk sometimes then all I have to is read The Deliberate Agrarian. It reminds me that I am a slave to a economic system meant to drain me of all my money and hope. The banks and my own Government are in this brainwashing of the middle class working man.In Mr. Kimball posted and essay the new Agrarian movement as well one about the current economic time from a book written in 1952 and how the industrial system is unsustainable. But the one essay that really struck me was about a obituary of a Mennonite man by the name of Mr. Ralph Yutzy. He was a farmer and a cabinet maker he was 86 years old. He left behind a family of 13 children, 152 grandchildren and 438 great grandchildren. What a family I really envy Mr. Yuttzy. I would love for my son to have such a family and the only way he would be able to do so is make is living from the farm and not enslaving himself to a bank. And so with this in mind I am going to double my efforts to get my family and my son on the farm as fast as I can.
All I can do his help him with the farm I am afraid he will have the harder task of finding a good woman that would be willing to have 13 children.