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Category Archives: Philosophy
My View from the Ramparts: Farming in the age of COVID-19
The past couple of months has been a strange time here at Innisfree, as I know it has been for everyone during this time of social isolation and pandemic outbreak. What’s been strangest for us is how relatively little our … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Farming, Life, Philosophy
Tagged challenges, Choices, covid, covid-19, Experiments, farm life, Farming, goals, Lessons, Ohio, Outcomes, pandemic, readiness, Self-sufficiency, smallhold, social distancing
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Difficult Things: Easy
One of the things I struggle with as a creator is the notion of wanting it to be easy. I know creating is work, but as a creator, I long for those moments of sheer inspiration when everything just flows. … Continue reading → Continue reading
Difficult Things: Perfection
I’ve been struggling for quite a while about what to write to reintroduce this blog. I want whatever I post to be the perfect statement of what I want this blog to be. That’s the problem. Like many Americans, I … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Writing
Tagged Difficult Things, perfection, reintroduction, Thinking, Uncategorized
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Education: More on rethinking education.
The last time I posted to this blog, I opined that I believed it was time for us to rethink the purpose of education. More than two years later, I am more convinced than ever that premise is true. From my view, the modern education system is a weird chimera of the classical notion of […] Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ideas, Philosophy
Tagged models, Reform, rethinking, Uncategorized
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Readiness: Run to where? Taking an honest look at getting out of Dodge.
One of the central themes of a lot of readiness thinking and training is the notion of bugging out when a disaster strikes. There are a lot of reasons for that fact, mostly driven by people living in urban and suburban areas that are critically unsustainable in a crisis situation. That said, one of my […] Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Preparedness
Tagged Be ready now, Bugging out, Intermediate readiness, Long-term Readiness, planning, readiness, run to where
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