personal column

  By

Jules Dervaes

PART TWO

With the pursuit of happiness as ease, as rest, there has come a hellish existence full of needless suffering--both random and arbitrary.  Our grandiose, pet projects have turned against us by raining down ruin upon, and cancerously devouring, their masters.  Those wonder inventions and miracle products that carried the promise of deliverance from present toil bore the power of future destruction.  Daredevils, we would take the risk and unleash those evils.  With all our supernatural, black magic devices, what we have unwittingly created--and still madly champion--is Frankenstein en masse.

To pristine eyes the wake of progress would be a sewer.  Only, in the beginning, we embraced deviant, bastard growth; seduced we were by the sensuous wealth it yielded so readily, so freely.  When easy riches bred super fortunes, the eternal quest for the most, latest, flashiest of the invented baubles heated up intensely.  Carried by advertising, the buying fever quickly spread to the masses.  Burning with desire, we ached to have exotic novelties we never needed before.  While deliriously dreaming of prosperity, at the expense of posterity, we would come to swallow the toxic offal which spewed forth from the production, use, and disposal of these modern vanities. 

Through contamination taking place out of sight, on the other side of town, and in an isolated area, our ideal, maiden home was uneventfully, genteelly--yet catastrophically--lost.  Pollution would tempt more pollution and the defiling cycle spun out of control.  The illusion that the days go on as before is sustained by the magically disappearing filth, all done with ppm doses.  We will accept any abuse, even being poisoned to death, if it happens in incremental stages.  It is our perpetual tolerance of small changes over time that ensures our adoption of any new home, no matter how foul the conditions.  We don't mind the putrid stench when we are no longer able to smell it.  What smell?

too be continued....
 

In this issue...

Repair Damaged Hair - Grow Your Own Broom  Organic Gardener's Toolkit - Eating Weeds

Tricks for Keeping Your House Cool

    Interested in doing things yourself instead of relying on outside sources for basic necessities? We are personally not as self-sufficient as we would like to be, but we believe that many are on same the path, some further along than others. 

   We hope this newsletter will be a source of inspiration and information to those who want to break-free from the modern environment and culture we are subject to.  See you along the path...

ramblings...

Well, well summer's just about over.  Going to a craft store the

other day, the store window paintings and displays were autumn leaves, pumpkins, and scarecrows. YIKES!!! Time to start thinking about what we will be planting in the fall.

The summer garden is at its peak right now, though some crops are starting to wind down.  It was a dis-appointing year for quite a few crops like peppers, tomatoes, etc,.  Already looking forward to next year...

The experts predict an El Nino winter, being how dry we have been this year it'll probably be a wetter than normal winter. *sigh*

Turning to another subject... as you can see we have a "new look" here at PTF.  We hope you like it and will check back often.

Editor & Staff of PTF

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