personal column

  By

Jules Dervaes

PART THREE

Our senses, which we could have relied upon, at first, to alarm us--saving us as we 'came to our senses'--now betray us outright.  What was our basic, innate guide to personal safety--primitive sensory technology--has been corrupted by increasing exposure to mutant elements and alien states.  Presently, it is normal to place ourselves in abnormal danger and to like it.  In time we will prefer being in even greater peril.  So snared are we in this ever-strengthening chain of perversion that what was previously normal is now felt by us to be silly, stupid, or sick. 
 

Therefore, we must today war against our own bodies to win life.  Instead, since still in ourselves we trust, we sophisticatedly go about the daily grind of killing ourselves--at times instantly, but always,  always, slowly.  This is the frightening reality; but, to kill the pain of any awful, piercing realization, we reach for the quick relief provided by the mental aspirin denial, a real wonder drug for the proud psyche.

As a civilization we've managed to evict failure along with our guilt from our collective conscience.  Despite our shameful record documenting terrible, generic vices, we obliviously conceive ourselves to be, on a evolutionary plane, rising.  The belief of our ascent out of primordial sludge and of our advance surpassing ancestral creatures, all retrograde, enables us to be living proof of a natural progression toward superiority. This self-serving creed nurtures a warped, one-sided perspective, a supremacist view of our destiny, which in turn fuels unilateral expectations of our due.  Where once we knew our place and accepted the provisions and obligations of progeny, here was the dawning of the age of naked self-worshipers for whom the world would serve as one colossal amusement park. 

to be continued....
 

In this issue...

What Are You Putting on Your Skin? - Moonshadow Gardening - Apron Evangelism

Coffee Can Ice Cream - Harvesting Rain

    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...

Words of Wisdom

  Our moral and ethical responsibility is to protect other species in the
spirit of husbandry rather than destroy them in and attitude of conquest.
~ Charles Southwick ~

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And Finally...

ramblings...

This month has been a strange one, weather wise.

One week we were baking under scorching temps and the next we had to pull out the flannels and use our windshield wipers as we had days of foggy and drizzly mornings.

Our experiment of trying to teach our rooster not to crow failed miserably.  It wouldn't have been so bad if we didn't have a school next door.  Fortunately we found him a good home where he'll not end up on someone's dinner plate!

Summer crops are starting to wind down. *sigh*  We are certainly going to miss them... *sniff*

Time to turn our thoughts and efforts for fall and winter plantings.  We hope that the experts are wrong in saying that'll be a very, very wet winter.

On the bright side, it looks as if we are going to break our harvest record of last year *WOW*  One is in awe of nature and the circle of life.  It is amazing how little space is needed to sustain yourself.

Have a wonderful holiday.

Editor & Staff of PTF

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