I finally get to sit down for the first time today. I have been lugging hot water from kitchen to laundry and sink, washing underwear, getting bread made from floor we ground ourselves risen and in the oven, working on chicken and veg soup, and strawberry sauce to go in yoghourt made with our hand made butter.
The house is filling with the aroma of baking bread. It is so worth it!
But it is such hard work without all those gadgets we take for granted and without processed food. This meal has been two days in the making! For the majority of the world, this is normal. We ARE extremely privileged by pure luck of having been born into the life we have. I've given up all this 'stuff' but I still have good food, a roof over my head, my family are safe and healthy, and well educated. If I run out of something, tomorrow I can zip to the shop and buy it with the virtual money on a plastic card. I have unions to negotiate for better pay at work, and a government that at least sometimes listens.
Food for thought.
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