What I'm about to quote can easily be misinterpreted..... so don't. Haha! I'm not turning Amish. I just like the principles mentioned in the context below. Although the Amish have a lot of wrong aspects about them, they obviously have something holding them together:
In Defense of the Family Farm
Published Mon, 10/06/2008 - 07:000
by Wendell Berry
"I have in mind… the one example known to me of an American community of small family farmers who have not only survived but thrived during some very difficult years: I mean the Amish. I do not recommend, of course, that all farmers should become Amish, nor do I want to suggest that the Amish are perfect people or that their way of life is perfect. What I want to recommend are some Amish principles:
-They have preserved their families and communities.
-They have maintained the practices of neighborhood.
-They have maintained the domestic arts of kitchen and garden, household and homestead.
-They have limited their use of technology so as not to displace or alienate available human labor or available free sources of power (the sun, wind, water, and so on.)" ((They are a bit extreme in this case, but there is a certain amount of self-reliance and exercise that is important and should be practiced.)) "
-They have limited their farms to a scale that is compatible both with the practice of neighborhood and with the optimum use of low-power technology. By the practices and limits already mentioned, they have limited their costs.
-They have educated their children to live at home and serve their communities.
-They esteem farming as both a practical art and a spiritual discipline.
-These principles define a world to be lived in by human beings, not a world to be exploited by managers, stockholders, and experts."
Well, I'm gonna go eat, help my dad load our old refrigerator in the back of my truck to take to town tomorrow, and tomorrow do school and clean up that old house.
YELRAB
My Amish name! :)
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