I’ve been reading a book (well, more accurately, listening to a book) that talks about the importance of eating locally grown food in order to restore and maintain a healthy planet. It’s less about the carbon footprint and more about how growing a diversity of plants regenerates the soil naturally instead of single species crops (corn, wheat, soybeans) grown over large areas that strips nutrients from the ground and requires artificial soil amendments to support plant growth year after year. Continue reading being local
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I should have put $20 down on “4 days” because that’s how long the dishwasher “repair” worked. As much as I tried the repair man’s super special technique of slam-the-door-as-hard-as-you-can-and-lean-into-it-with-all-your-might, the door keeps popping open. Now I have to submit another work order.
Then I feel like a big baby for being annoyed about my dishwasher being broken because I’m reading this book, Kisses From Katie, about a girl who left the US and moved to Uganda after she graduated from high school who has adopted 14 little girls and started a school sponsorship and feeding program and loves on hundreds of needy kids every day and she doesn’t have a dishwasher. Or a car. Or electricity much of the time. But she’s not complaining.
I started reading her blog, http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/, about a year ago and she quickly became my hero, a modern day Mother Teresa. I pre-ordered her book back in June and had a happy surprise when it showed up on my kindle yesterday. Her book is wonderful, but it makes me feel like a lazy, ungrateful cow.
Poor me, my dishwasher is broken on a day when I don’t have my full time maid at my beck and call, I have too many clothes to pick up off the floor, there’s nothing I feel like eating, even though there is plenty of food in the cupboard . . . meanwhile, she’s taking in kids with scabies and HIV, eating beans every day, doing mountains of laundry for her 14 children and her many extra houseguests. Oh, and did I mention she’s only 22?
Off to work on an attitude adjustment . . . and finish the book.