Suburban Intro to Homesteading

If you ask for something, it will be given to you. Of course, it wont necessarily be what your expecting. All day I've been looking for something to write about that matters. I feel like my blogs have been pretty running focused, but that's only a part of me and honestly, not even my favorite part. One of my favorite things is to sit and talk with people about unmentionables. Unmentionables? You know what they are. Religion and Politics. 30 people just stopped reading and closed out of the blog. Ha-ha. That's ok. Kind of. But it's time they talk about them anyways, and Juan Vasquez is my case and point. Who the heck is Juan Vasquez? Juan was the answer I was looking for today as I was scrolling through a popular time wasting website. Juan was an LA gangster. He did gangster things.  However, the story didn't end there. Juan had a baby, and a familiar story emerged. His "I don't care to die" mentality turned into "My kids are more important tha...

"Some things cannot be learned until it is time to lean them". After an extended absence from church, I have learned a lot about my personal relationship with God. I have also learned a lot about religion. Most importantly is that these are different things. But I have learned my biggest lesson from my 4 month old son just the other day. It was an amazing Aha moment that left me feeling like God was sitting next to us. There are many different ways to think about God, some see him as a Him, some as an Almighty Smiter, maybe as a Brother, as the Earth itself, or possibly even just an Ancient sense of Awe and Wonder. The most common way I've been taught about God is as a Father. So it's no wonder this lesson has been lost on me for the better part of 29 years. I've never had the opportunity to be a Father before! Humans struggle to understand people of different political views, people on the other side of a battlefield, people of different socio-econom...