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Friday, September 24. 2010

A Maine Family Robinson

We're happy stranded here on this 'island' in western Maine."



My wife and I noticed the utter breakdown of enormous parts of the lives of average Americans, the destruction or subversion of many formerly useful institutions, and a general retreat to barbarism masquerading as progress. We decided to change our lives a while ago, and not unlike the Swiss Family, the last three or four years took even the last lifeboat we found ourselves in and smashed it on the rocks. We have reinvented ourselves, and we'll tell you how we're doing it, if you're interested.



Damn hippies all over again. This is a wonderful, love-filled family. Insane, or Thoreauvian? Don't ask me. I am not ready to move too far from NYC or Cape Cod, but I have no idea how I might feel tomorrow. Plus I have ye olde farme homesteade to worry about.


"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.' Henry David Thoreau 


That makes me poverty-stricken, Henry, because I still want to go everywhere and do everything.

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“the number of things he can afford to let alone.” There’s a choice there.
#1 lenf on 2010-09-24 18:54 (Reply)
I think he meant that the things you own may end up owning you, or something to that effect. Which I find to be true...while my friends drive new cars and are concerned with higher registration, insurance and worrying about dings and scratches, I find much freedom in driving a well-running truck that at this point (beaten up, 200k miles) is damn near disposable. Hell, the money for the tires and windshield I just put in is probably close to its book value.
#2 model_1066 on 2010-09-24 18:57 (Reply)
I take great delight in keeping three nice cars and one wonderful truck running for less than $1500/year in repairs and insurance.

Oh, you betcha, they are clean and reliable and one is in the garage or needs to go I pay cash. Last time I bought a new car was in 1984. I did inherit two newer cars (1998 and 1992).

LOVE IT!
#3 apple pie on 2010-09-25 01:17 (Reply)
Avast Sullivan, the story change yall'd make ain't a change atall, me thinks.

Yall's rowboat be non less full of pirates but the rowin' must be hard in Western Maine fer pirates.

Yall did say Western Maine, didn't ya?
#4 Leag on 2010-09-25 12:47 (Reply)

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