About Me

So, you may be wondering…who am I?

I’m a gal just like you. I have an 8 to 5 job just like you. I live in the middle of a small city like you probably do. I’m not a hippie. I don’t join picket lines or go to the Earth Man festivals. I’m just doing what I can to help us all, the best I know how at this point in my life.

I do what my lifestyle and budget will allow me to. Cause let’s face it, things like organic bedsheets are not cheap. But I do like to learn and be aware, so that when opportunities DO arise, I can take advantage of choices that will make life better for me, and you, and our children.

You can sum up my mentality about everything pretty simply. I am a Christian, and most of my philosophies are based on my belief that God did it better than man ever can or could or will. Do I believe God’s medicine is better than man’s medicine? Hell yes, I do. And honestly, I just can’t understand why my fellow Christian friends think I’m crazy. It makes perfect sense to me.

I just like to think things through a little bit. Not just do something because it’s easier to do what the tv tells me, rather than to use my own brain. I like to take a step back, and look at life in the big picture sense.

I’m not really an environmentalist–or at least it’s not the best way to describe me. I’m really a humanist. Saving the environment means saving humankind. Hurting the environment in turn causes human suffering and diminishes our quality of life. That’s the kind of stuff I’m worried about. Because just about anyone you talk to has had someone close to them die of cancer. But we spend millions and millions of dollars trying to CURE it, but never stop to think that we could be the cause of it. I’m not trying to save the earth–I’m trying save humankind. The earth doesn’t need us to save it…it’s been here for billions of years and will certainly continue to survive without us.

Why I Blog

After growing up in America, I’ve recently found I have a very narrow, shallow understanding about life and the way we live it.

The majority of Americans, me included, simply follow the herd. We do what everyone else does. What is convenient. Easy. Enjoyable. And who can blame us? After all, we are simply born and grow learning the ways of our parents and peers and continue on in that way without too much thought.

But I don’t want to be one of the herd. I want to take each aspect of my way of life and examine it and find out why I live that way, how it is made possible, what consequences come from it (to myself, to the earth, or to others), and what alternatives there might be. Once I know all those things, I want to step back and reexamine, then determine if I want to continue in that way.

We spend too much of our lives acting on what we are told, rather than what we discover. We are passive instead of active. We are losing our ability to think, instead relying on what others simply tell us to do.

I want to stop living my life as a sheep of society.

John Holt, an author and educator, said, “We don’t have to make human beings smart. They are born smart. All we have to do is stop doing things that make them stupid.” I can tell you that the more I research, the more I feel like I’ve been “made stupid” by my American way of life.

So why blog about it? Probably as therapy. And to have mercy on my friends and relatives who are tired of hearing all my “fun facts.” But I have to share them somehow, or I’ll go crazy. Hence this site. So thanks for reading.