Selling Out, or Standing Up?
I've been thinking about this long and hard this week.
I love nature. I love weeds more than ornamentals. I have little use for "pretty flowers" and rather grow things I can eat. Am I picking favorites? Maybe so.
This week I've been doing yard work. We trim and prune the pretty things in folks yards.. stuff you can't eat. Stuff that serves no purpose other than something to look at, or for your neighbors to look at.. so you make them covet your pretty flowers.
We walk around and spray toxic chemicals all over the yard. Each weed gets a good dose of some petroleum based toxic chemical to kill it. I can't tell you how many wild edibles I've killed this week. I can tell you that every one that I spray breaks my heart. I make a point to call aloud the latin name of each plant before I spray it. (Ok, that might be a little OCD..:blushing:)So I pose the question to you all.
Are you willing to do something that goes against your grain? Something you believe against, to get the almighty dollar?
I hate doing it, but right now it's the difference between keeping the lights on and a vehicle on the road, and being dark and cold and walking everywhere.
Have I sold out to the almighty dollar yet again?
I feel bad about it. I really do. I've thought about it really hard today and it's eating at me. But you gotta pay the bills. I guess that's where I draw the line. I gotta make sure my kids are taken care of NO MATTER WHAT.
think about other folks that do things they may not believe is "right". They do things that are "wrong" so that they can make money for the same reasons. I'd bet Crash feels this way every time he has to kill a honeybee hive, but what's a guy gonna do? Crash, if you find something to kill gnats, I'm all ears, err.. my ears are all gnats, so I'm all gnats :tongue_smilie: I'm certain they have some place in the food chain that has been interrupted by pesticides, or other poisons, but MAN they are irritating..
