I still have a mug that we had at our cottage when I was 10 years old. Back then, I considered it an ugly relic of the 70’s. Certainly nothing special.
I recently overheard a conversation. The person speaking was denying climate change.
Being raised in a low-income family has shaped the way I see the world, partly for the better but also for the worse.
In 2003, I was working at Asessippi ski hill when a co-worker mentioned that a friend of his was planning to build a straw bale house. Amazed at the idea, I asked whether that was really possible.
Farmers that do not use tillage are called zero tillers. They typically use herbicides to control their weeds.
Some of my earliest memories are of a sea of blue flowers swaying in the breeze as I rode my bicycle along the gravel road that bordered my father’s flax field.
For a long time, I didn’t believe that planned obsolescence was a thing.
For a long time, I didn’t believe that planned obsolescence was a thing. Recently, I read that it was a thing, as early as the 1920s, albeit not by that name.
The use of alcohol was never an issue in my growing-up years. Being from a poor family with an invalid father, the purchasing of alcohol was never entertained, at least not to my knowledge.
People have hand-crafted with wool for centuries. The beautiful aspect about traditional handwork is that you don’t need a ton of special skill and expensive equipment to get started.
