living locally

[movie zombie]

Ideal Rock
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-09-30/cols_ventura.html

this article/opinion piece is very interesting and, i think, beyond politics. it is in many ways a reality check into how we live our lives and very appropriate as we enter the ''holiday'' season.

while i''ve been thinking of how our [husband, myself, 7 cats] life will be impacted as we really do live in the boonies, it still got me to thinking more about our life style: those trips to toronto for the film festival, the rides of to san francisco twice a month for early music events, 2 hour driving [one way] trips to the central valley to visit my aging parents, driving 25 miles into santa cruz to the farmers market each wednesday, etc. it has only been since WWII that homeownership, travel, automobile travel, etc. have been available on a large scale to those other than the wealthy. perhaps we will be returning to pre WWII lifestyles.....which is not entirely bad, but will be [i think] a shock to all of us.

peace, movie zombie who is trying to scale down with grace and with dignity BEFORE push comes to shove

 

[strmrdr]

Having lived on a farm a few summers it is a ton of work but it is relaxing work.
You go to bed beat but you know you have accomplished something.
I dont get that kind of satisfaction out of any job iv had except for maybe busting up cast iron furnaces with a sledge hammer.
That was theroputic work.

But it didnt have the advantage of being out under the big sky and sipping iced tea listening to the night before bed.

 

[movie zombie]

i''m not sure that a return to pre-WWII life would include us all being on farms but it certainly does mean many of us won''t be treking around the world much less the country. a return to buying local agricultural products would be a good consequence, though.

peace, movie zombie

 

[AGBF]

I haven''t read the article linked to the posting (yet), but recall an older friend talking about having a country store close by during the last fuel shortage. I know some of you were not driving then, but there were long lines for gasoline in the 1970''s. At least I think it was that decade! The speed limit was made 55 mph nationally to conserve fuel. Discussions about shopping near where you lived occurred. Then gasoline become abundant again and everyone was willing to continue living high on the hog. And that was BEFORE SUV''s! (I have a Jeep myself. Mea culpa.)

Deb

 

[movie zombie]

and i think in some part of the country you couldn''t fill up whenever you needed to, think it was done by licence number and you could only fill up on even or odd days depending upon said number.

peace, movie zombie

 

[AGBF]

Date: 11/7/2005 7:39:31 PM
Author: movie zombie
and i think in some part of the country you couldn''t fill up whenever you needed to, think it was done by licence number and you could only fill up on even or odd days depending upon said number.

Yup. Odd and even days .

Deb

 

[AGBF]

I see the article is in, "The Austin Chronicle" and is written by a Michael Ventura. I knew a Michael Ventura (aka, "Speedy") who was a writer, but he lived in California.

Deb

 

[AGBF]

Date: 11/7/2005 7:46:57 PM
Author: AGBF
I see the article is in, ''The Austin Chronicle'' and is written by a Michael Ventura. I knew a Michael Ventura (aka, ''Speedy'') who was a writer, but he lived in California.

MZ...my friend wrote this article. And by looking up other articles he wrote that were published in. "The Austin Chronicle" I see that one of his younger brothers whom I also knew, has died. Michael wrote, in a column called, "Aldo", of Aldo dying of a hellish reaction to chemotherapy for cancer. I knew Michael when we were teenagers. From the Unitarian-Universalist Church. He once complimented me on my writing but told me to, "watch the adjectives"! (I think I was writing about hot chocolate!)

This is a blast from the past (as we used to say) for me!

Deb

 

[movie zombie]

well, well, well! it is a small world. perhaps you can contact him?

movie zombie, glad to be of service in resurrecting a long ago friendship by posting an article to be read