anna fongers / spring hill camp all summer / colorado street in fall /

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Written in a letter I recently recieved from a good friend of mine:

"Thoreau writes, 'a man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.' There is a great freedom in the ability to not own more stuff. The United States is what many refer to as a 'melting pot': we are defined by a myriad of cultures, races, creeds, and ethnicities, and yet the tie that binds us is this: we are all consumers. This as become our very nature, to consume things. Be it the well-being of peoples on the other side of the globe (or our backyard), the environment, whatever... we will consume. Our label pays homage to that. And I'm fed up with it. Why should the clothes I buy, the food I eat, contribute to the opression of others? Because I don't see the blood, sweat, and tears that brought it to my local store? I don't know much about agriculture, but I would like to start my own garden or farm. And sew my own clothes. I want to discover the joy of seeing the earth miraculously bringing forth food in the manner God designed it. Can you believe it? Put in some seeds, out comes food! Granted it isn't that simple, but you get the point. I desire the simplicity of living by my own two hands, and not giving in to a system that tells me I must be a slave for fifty years and then retire. I pray I don't ever live for the weekends. We have been made for so much more."