I love my wife and family

Every so often, I get all teary when I think about my family.

My wife is the greatest. She is hosting people at our hous this week, and having a meeting today and another on Saturday about health, and nurtition. What most people dont realize is she has been spending tons of time doing research, and thinking about many of our friend with either illness or personal struggle, and thinking and praying about ways to help them. Almost every day recently she is learning something profound about this topic, and I just wish I had the resources to let her go at this much more.

I wish we had a bigger house! She loves having people over, and loves having htem stay. She organizes all of it, plans it, sets things up, gets rooms ready, sheets, food, all the stuff. She is so good at it it all looks normal, but I see behind the scenes.

Since starting to help at PureHEart, things have gotten moreunstable lately. There are a lot of dynamics thathappen whn you engage helping people get healed. we are both stumbling around trying to figure things out, and she is so patient and forgiving when I hit my own personal walls with patience or frustration.

Israel is so much fun to be with, and being next ot her as she grows into her life is becomign fascinating. I forgot the dynamicism of being almost 14! I wasnt half the person she is at this point. She is pushing herself past her struggles and engaging her heart, and it shows.

Judah is just a jot. In fact, she is outgrowing everything as well! Danie ended up with asweatshirt on today,a nd asked Israel "Is this yours?", the answer "No, thats Judahs!" LOL. Judah and I have been riding bikes a little int he am, and she has been keeping us up to date on her massive listening library of Adventures in Odyssey. Judah has an incredible mind for detail, especialy when it comes to stories or books. We watched the Nanbcy Drew movie last night, and she caught so many things about it it was wild.

Queen Havah "Huckleberry" Henry leads a charmed life. She has quite a voice and a will. She is lots of fun until she isnt, and she is willing to let you knwo she would prefer more FOOD PLEASE NOW. She ADORES Israel and Judah, and scoots around on her butt all over the kitchen taking things out of her cabinet, and leaving htat for something else.

It is so important sometimes, to step back and be thankful, and joyful about what we do have. It has been hard financially (not as hard as most, but hard for us), spiritually and emotionally a little topsy turvy, and yetthe reality is, TODAY, Iam thankful and enjoying my family, and allowing my heart to expand with goodness.

Great article

http://www.wildfermentation.com/resources.php?page=economics


Some fascinating ideas and concepts becoming quite closer to my heart. As my life and my family change and shift to a different motive and practice for living, these things begin to ring more and more true, not just as principles, but as actual paradigms inherent in Creation. Somehow, these things appeal both to the sentimental (for sure), but also something a little deeper, like a simple "This makes sense" gut level.



"Some version of "caring about the health of the consumer" surely appears in the mission statements of all the major food corporations, including the most egregious violators of the public trust. In other words, it is hard to genuinely care about someone you don't even know. "

"You cannot pay someone to care. You can pay someone to act as if they care; you can pay them to follow meticulous guidelines; but you can't make them really care. "

"An alternative path exists: food should not be primarily a commodity. Food is a gift of God's Good Earth, for which all religious traditions teach gratitude. To subject it to the economic regime of the lowest bidder is to desecrate the gift and insult the Giver. "

"When people ask if they can buy our soda in the future, we usually say, "No, but we'll teach you how to make it." We envision a society where every household has a speciality, be it soda or sauerkraut, soap or stock, bread or soy sauce, that they make in quantities sufficient for five or ten households – precisely the quantity that maximizes efficiency without compromising quality. (It is not much more work to make ten gallons of soda than it is to make one, but to make fifty gallons is an enterprise of an entirely different order.) "

New Boy to play with

One of my sisters-in-love just had a nephew-in-love for me to play with. This kid is big, almost as big as my Judah was when she was born. I mean, hes almost as big as my 1 year old daughter.

Now Avacado and Chuckles have a brother to protect them, so Im going to call him Brother Bruiser. Contrary to previous assumptions, especially those made by Avacado, his name is not Osama Obama Solololololololomon.

They have my wife captive in Cinicinatti, and Im single for the night. No kids, no wife. I dont knwo wht single people do on Fridays, so I might just go to Chipotle and drown my lonliness in a burrito.