tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post8662265147374115858..comments2024-02-29T10:26:56.584-05:00Comments on Ohiofarmgirl's Adventures In The Good Land: What would you do if you weren't afraid?Ohiofarmgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02606563929369721111noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-69049504583729953242016-05-16T09:47:43.234-04:002016-05-16T09:47:43.234-04:00A really great - and to me complicated question......A really great - and to me complicated question....<br /><br />Fear of what? <br /><br />Starving? "failure?" Death? The unknown? Running out of time?<br /><br />Part of what keeps me doing what I do is the sense of obligation I have to my children, Being able to provide health insurance until they are 26 keeps me locked in until 2019/2020 at the earliest. After that? the house is paid, I have (as far as I know) good health.<br /><br />If there was no fear (and enough money), I'd buy a parcel, build a small very efficient yet cool modern house, have a BIG garden , an orchard, perennial food sources, raise chickens, maybe a few ducks, perhaps a pig or two a year, and tell the world to F-Off.<br /><br />While I smile.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14490964982321159910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-2868297546487080902016-05-15T01:12:06.853-04:002016-05-15T01:12:06.853-04:00So it is only fear that keeps me to my three finge...So it is only fear that keeps me to my three fingers of Knob Creek and two album sides of Tom T. Hall per evening? I could realize my dream of sloth and indolence and become a wastrel. Yes!!!! No longer will I be a reluctant farmer turned groundskeeper. I will live the rest of my life in a slight alcoholic daze surrounded by orphaned technologies and dreams of a romantic past that never was. I will dare to realize my dreams! Happiness awaits. Thank you, thank you, thank you.<br />Oooh and doughnuts, I will live on doughnuts, bourbon, and bacon.<br />Or did I misunderstand your post?buddeshepherdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10747323705664619491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-53986392825878809962016-05-14T04:42:54.977-04:002016-05-14T04:42:54.977-04:00I have never had a plan in life, and have always f...I have never had a plan in life, and have always followed what the Universe gives to me as my next step, and this attitude about not controlling where my life leads has led me here to France. We do not have any idea about how we can keep ourselves afloat financially but trust that we will have enough to live on. One thing, though, is that we are never going back to the lifestyle we had in England.<br />As for 'what would you do if you weren't afraid'.........we would not change anything, but I do need to stay focussed with my writing, my main gripe being that I don't know where to start. I am not afraid of writing. I am afraid of being successful at it! Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13235143664894609891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-7813815213073284802016-05-13T21:22:51.382-04:002016-05-13T21:22:51.382-04:00thanks KJ! and yep - you can do it!
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CTF.... I...thanks KJ! and yep - you can do it!<br />:-)<br /><br />CTF.... I'm so sorry for the loss of your mom. The first year is absolutely horrible with out a mother. But I'm so glad for you that you are enjoying your life! And yep, can totally understand the increased quality of life. It's kind of hard to explain to people - not working can be even more fulfilling. Great work on your vintage fabrics - let me know how it goes?<br />:-)Ohiofarmgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02606563929369721111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-56040710517660139552016-05-13T14:05:11.196-04:002016-05-13T14:05:11.196-04:00Your post made me stop short and think… that for t...Your post made me stop short and think… that for the first time in my life I don’t have an answer for this. Because what my answer to this would have always been - what I’m doing now. I’ve never been happy in the whole system of working for the system and when I had my son last summer I left my secure job with retirement and lots of vacation time in order to be a homemaker. We didn’t have a plan, a budget, nothing. We just knew that it would be the right thing for our family. Our quality of life has increased tremendously. I spend all day with my son, bake, cook, raise food, manage my household and now I get to do all of those things I love all of the time. I’m also just starting to dabble in selling vintage fabrics and would like to figure out the dang Blogger.<br />P.S., I lost my mother to ovarian cancer last year and you have my deepest, deepest sympathies. Cancer is an effin’ horrible, horrible thing. <br />Cottontailfarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06603586688895863727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7789865586418282697.post-11168168489150202422016-05-13T11:41:43.761-04:002016-05-13T11:41:43.761-04:00You are at it again; you keep poking me about a ch...You are at it again; you keep poking me about a change in life. ;-) Gotta go, I need to go make a plan...<br /><br />KJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com