Thank You Mark Boyle!
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- Bored? No way. Ditching technology makes life complicated and beautiful
~Mark Boyle~
....Boredom - like loneliness, ecological illiteracy, the selfie, depression - is one of the more recent pandemics in mankind’s all-conquering march forward.
Here's a link to what Mark has to say...
www.theguardian.com/commentis...
This is Great! I have been fascinated by Mark Boyle for a quite a while now and I found you Colette by searching for Permaculture on UA-cam. The older I get the more I think that time is critical and the quality of that time is so important. It is up to us individually to make the most of what time we have. Technology can be great but we have become slaves to it. It never fails to shock me to see virtually everyone on public transport with their heads in their phones and I got rid of my television a couple of years ago because it is a waste of time, most of the time. Having said that I spend far too long in front of the laptop.
We really need to change how we live today, it is not sustainable. One of the greatest and most rewarding things for me is growing a few veg, picking them and eating them within a few minutes. It makes no sense whatsoever to go into the local supermarket and buy veg from places like Peru, Kenya, Israel, Guatemala. I recently saw blackberries from Mexico. Our hedgerows are full of the most delicious blackberries but people don't have the will or the time to go out and pick them. Modern society is time poor. I know people who commute for four hours every day. What a waste of life and precious time. I am very lucky to have a decent sized garden and you have inspired me to plant up lots more trees and shrubs. I could go on and on but I'm off now to walk my doggies. Thanks Colette!!!
This is so true. After my Mom passed away and my divorce I had to pack up two homes and moved in to a small house in a complex. I gave away so much "stuff" as there simply wasnt space and still have a few boxes I can part with. Im surrounded by my favourite things much like your little home but am aware it is just stuff. Most important for me is a roof over my head, my bed and my pillow and a little garden I can potter around in 🙂 A fancy house and fancy car and fancy things are meaningless. I have items that my Mom made by hand which mean more than all the gold and jewels in the world.🔆 Where I live we will probably have to learn how to live off the grid sooner rather than later as due to years of mismanagement we have load shedding where there is no electricity. ( We have to pay extra for our electricity to compensate for the mismanagement but then are told we musnt use it too much 😂😂 ), anycase I am trying to see it as a positive thing as I then have time to read a book or do more in my garden and have quiet times of contemplation 🌸
Thank you very much !
Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful walk through Bealtaine Cottage and words of inspiration! Exactly what I needed to hear in this time of transition and change in my life. Thank you!
Everyone can see everything around them worsening
Not everyone realising what's happening
Money is one of the culprits
Cause its all about money
Before it was the barter
Which had to be the starter
When we started owning nature
The greed for getting richer
Making things and systems never meant to exist
Never needed
and should not persist
In this beautiful world that we are blessed
with
Which we are Turning ugly because we have messed it.
me and my partner live about 20mins away from you. Would love to meet you some time are even you call up to give us some wisdom:) love your work and mind
Thank you for your video as I also love Mark Boyle and his blogs. I hope to return to my native country of Colombia to live in an eco-village and hopefully learn also from the Indigenous of the Sierra!
I am a new subscriber ,,,I am enjoying your garden and talks.!
We seem to have a lot of the same intrests! no dog but chickens. I've been planting and planting . I so enjoy my garden.. I still work a few mornings a week sewing. another thing I love to do. I am creating a santuary to enjoy my quiet times at home in the garden. it gives me so much joy!
I will for sure go read what he has put on his blog! It will give us good! So much good!
i had an eighty foot converted thames coal barge, lived completely off grid, rayburn wood burning range, with water heater built in, tilly pump action, lamps, had a calor gas fridge but never used it, river water ice cold, weighted plastic bucket with lid, could lay in the main room looking up at the stars, market garden right next door ( a place where they grow vegetables ) the weird thing i ended up helping to build the ranges, they would burn anything combustible, ( no not oil ) paradise, only problem, no work, and unlike poles and italians, i couldnt spend all day, bent double, answer to, why didn't you work growing vegetables, and, i could never be a part of the corporate world, knew where that was hedding, and as for the EU, i knew where that would end up, and, i was proven to be right, no good screaming at people WAKE UP so, i just do my own thing, and let god sort it out
Technology brought me to Bealtaine. It does have some benefits and for that I'm blessed. =)
I agree and that's why I'm in favour of being selective with technology.
Lovely time walking with you! We are just finishing up our own tiny home here at The Bamboo Jungle N Gardens and am so happy to hear that you are wanting to build one too! Will be looking forward to seeing this develop. What would you do with the two homes you live in now at Bealtaine Cottage? Have a lovely week!
Share them with students, visitors and guests, as I already do, for my own space needs have diminished substantially over the 13 years.
Some of sentence is very thought-provoking. I think accomplishment is completely majority part in the life to everybody .If you(I) live in like this way, How do you(or I) deal with helplessness which is coming from the fact that there is no such things you have to make achievement .(If there's is no such things to make achievement than what's more meaningful in free time even if you(or I) get to have extra time to do something by stop watching television.
you stick to what your doing colette you've got it right, you grew it its yours, and your animals are protected, i know, about living on the street, and its no walkover, and there's constant hassle from big brother, who just love to push people around, they don't see you as human, just as another useless eater