It's a front porch day. From Prime Wisdom by Jason Peters at Front Porch Republic.
Make arrangements to live locally, to scale back, to get used to less.
Do this voluntarily and cooperatively before catastrophe forces you to do it in a panic.
Make arrangements to be kind and useful to one another, to be competent at fundamental tasks, to be willing to do actual work, to help those who can’t do it and to encourage those who won’t.
Make arrangements to stay home more often, to occupy yourself in useful endeavors, to make birdhouses rather than hand money over to Hollywood at the Celebration Cinema.
Love your place. Guard your liberty. And remember: you are free not insofar as you are able to pay; you are free insofar as you are able.
I like Jason Peters. He's a great writer and a poignant critic as well as humorous. This piece resonates with me now because I'm in a position of searching as it seems is he although he's much farther along than I by any means. It's a dark piece that echoes the writers malaise especially for Peters who normally riots with a healthy dose of sarcasm and tom foolery. Nonetheless its makes a few almost manifesto like statements that are moving. I think I'll read the "Mad Farmer Liberation Front" now.
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