SolarMother
Dagobah Resident
I have chosen to live on a new, budding homestead with my husband, as of Oct. '09. It's somewhat remote and very beautiful and quiet. We are growing veggies. No neighbors that really know the extent of how much the system is falling apart, but one neighbor who we can get help from. Other neighbors are curious about what we are doing and come by to check us out. We are not set up to help others security-wise yet.
We want to be set up to help others by next year...food-wise, sharing land, as a retreat, etc. All neighbors are not yet awake.
We want a real community/landshare as I stated in my intro as a newbie. If people we share our 35 acres with eventually come from this forum, all the better, because this forum and FOTCM principles are quite resonate with us. Trust can be built. Relationships formed!
Work is still scarce in our area, but getting a little better as weather warms up. I come into town to go online or for work.
I get eye fatigue from trying to read one Chapt from the Wave, and then the forum online. At this time/season, I am only online one day, maybe two a week, for maximum 3 hours one day...as much as my eyes can take it. Printing out a chapter is an option when I have extra cash, as its 20 cents a page here at the library. Those chapters are long, as you know!!
We have no electricity yet on our homestead. Soon we will but only enough for the fridge, a lightbulb, electric burners for cooking. No money for internet service, much less a laptop. Some kind of windfall could change all this, but not counting on it! HA!
This forum community seems to be soley based on being online everyday or often if possible. What about myself and any others who are not able to be online frequently in order to advance within the fellowship? In order to go to next level? In order to interact?
There are numerous homesteaders out here in our area of southern Colorado...wanting to set themselves up and sometimes try to connect with neighbors, but everyone is still thinking in an atomized fashion (self sufficient, do everything yourself, and shame if you have to ask for help!)
Believe me, this forum is now my only source of like-minded (principles) community, which I am starving for. Coming into the town near us for socialization does nothing for me. There is no one to talk to about all this. A whole lot of density in the small towns around here. No judgment, just the facts. No one wants to hear any information. I take that back--one person just asked me TODAY about The Wave based on something he heard me say to my husband once. I must celebrate! He also is on a homestead, an out-of-the-box person all his life, and does not have a computer, nor much money. I suggested getting The WaveSeries books. He may be able to gradually afford that. He suggested splitting the cost and we wondered if we can get a discount (some help.) I do not use credit cards.
I would like to ask FOTCM for help in getting the books. I would share them when and if more people ask.
My intention is that our financial situation improve so that I can get a laptop and perhaps go to my neighors, who have internet service and go online a lot more, if they are willing to share their internet service.
I get scared that finances are not going to improve even though we have already chosen to down size and now want to expand. That is a fearful voice inside me. But my fear level is way down from what it used to be!
I do EE 3 times a week. Cannot afford to detox yet--access to organic veggies is limited for now, and many of the items on detox diet plan are not affordable. Our veggies are not harvestable yet. Maybe by end of summer we can go to a city an hour away and get things we need and begin the detox. That is my intention and desire.
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO INCREASE IN PROSPERITY AND EXPAND, WHILE THOSE NOT AWAKE YET EXPERIENCE FINANCIAL SHOCKS AND DECREASING PROSPERITY (in order to possibly choose to wake up as the system crumbles?)
We have been downsizing since '03. Many financial and emotional shocks over the years. We have really been through it and grown in knowledge expodentially, like so many others on the forum. I am a constant researcher and reader. I get all my books interlibrary loan. Thank you for your reading list!
But where do I fit in with the forum and the community of FOTCM with my financial challenges described above which limit my access to the forum?
For instance, I would like to read all of the Wave books that were put out after the chapters on the website were completed. (I am on Chapt 23.) Which books are those? Right now, all cash goes to food and gas--the basics. I am not complaining, because we do not have rent, mortgage or utilities and are growing food and may have chickens and a goat next year. We live a very simple, 'primitive' life, but want to eventually have more modern convenieces again. A bigger home with a guestroom. My husband built our present bungalow, a greenhouse and a barn out of salvaged materials---amazing how little one really needs to get by on. But I want to believe prosperity can happen in order to be able to better serve and help.
I will be online tomorrow for a half hour or so in a different town, different library. Looking forward to reading any replies and support. Thank you.
We want to be set up to help others by next year...food-wise, sharing land, as a retreat, etc. All neighbors are not yet awake.
We want a real community/landshare as I stated in my intro as a newbie. If people we share our 35 acres with eventually come from this forum, all the better, because this forum and FOTCM principles are quite resonate with us. Trust can be built. Relationships formed!
Work is still scarce in our area, but getting a little better as weather warms up. I come into town to go online or for work.
I get eye fatigue from trying to read one Chapt from the Wave, and then the forum online. At this time/season, I am only online one day, maybe two a week, for maximum 3 hours one day...as much as my eyes can take it. Printing out a chapter is an option when I have extra cash, as its 20 cents a page here at the library. Those chapters are long, as you know!!
We have no electricity yet on our homestead. Soon we will but only enough for the fridge, a lightbulb, electric burners for cooking. No money for internet service, much less a laptop. Some kind of windfall could change all this, but not counting on it! HA!
This forum community seems to be soley based on being online everyday or often if possible. What about myself and any others who are not able to be online frequently in order to advance within the fellowship? In order to go to next level? In order to interact?
There are numerous homesteaders out here in our area of southern Colorado...wanting to set themselves up and sometimes try to connect with neighbors, but everyone is still thinking in an atomized fashion (self sufficient, do everything yourself, and shame if you have to ask for help!)
Believe me, this forum is now my only source of like-minded (principles) community, which I am starving for. Coming into the town near us for socialization does nothing for me. There is no one to talk to about all this. A whole lot of density in the small towns around here. No judgment, just the facts. No one wants to hear any information. I take that back--one person just asked me TODAY about The Wave based on something he heard me say to my husband once. I must celebrate! He also is on a homestead, an out-of-the-box person all his life, and does not have a computer, nor much money. I suggested getting The WaveSeries books. He may be able to gradually afford that. He suggested splitting the cost and we wondered if we can get a discount (some help.) I do not use credit cards.
I would like to ask FOTCM for help in getting the books. I would share them when and if more people ask.
My intention is that our financial situation improve so that I can get a laptop and perhaps go to my neighors, who have internet service and go online a lot more, if they are willing to share their internet service.
I get scared that finances are not going to improve even though we have already chosen to down size and now want to expand. That is a fearful voice inside me. But my fear level is way down from what it used to be!
I do EE 3 times a week. Cannot afford to detox yet--access to organic veggies is limited for now, and many of the items on detox diet plan are not affordable. Our veggies are not harvestable yet. Maybe by end of summer we can go to a city an hour away and get things we need and begin the detox. That is my intention and desire.
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO INCREASE IN PROSPERITY AND EXPAND, WHILE THOSE NOT AWAKE YET EXPERIENCE FINANCIAL SHOCKS AND DECREASING PROSPERITY (in order to possibly choose to wake up as the system crumbles?)
We have been downsizing since '03. Many financial and emotional shocks over the years. We have really been through it and grown in knowledge expodentially, like so many others on the forum. I am a constant researcher and reader. I get all my books interlibrary loan. Thank you for your reading list!
But where do I fit in with the forum and the community of FOTCM with my financial challenges described above which limit my access to the forum?
For instance, I would like to read all of the Wave books that were put out after the chapters on the website were completed. (I am on Chapt 23.) Which books are those? Right now, all cash goes to food and gas--the basics. I am not complaining, because we do not have rent, mortgage or utilities and are growing food and may have chickens and a goat next year. We live a very simple, 'primitive' life, but want to eventually have more modern convenieces again. A bigger home with a guestroom. My husband built our present bungalow, a greenhouse and a barn out of salvaged materials---amazing how little one really needs to get by on. But I want to believe prosperity can happen in order to be able to better serve and help.
I will be online tomorrow for a half hour or so in a different town, different library. Looking forward to reading any replies and support. Thank you.
