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Comment on In a Perfect World by Kim

Kim — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:13:34 +0000

Laura-Jane,
I think you’ll know when you’ve reached that last bend. Perhaps your journey is just beginning, and you have years of change and challenges ahead of you. And that’s okay.
At some point you’ll say to yourselves, this is it, this is where we want to be. You may well be 50 or 60 when you say it, but then, what if you never do?
What then?
It doesn’t matter. What matters is that you are happy wherever, whoever you are, and with what you’re doing.
Do it all! Life is too short – a terrible cliche, yet so fitting.

Comment on In a Perfect World by Andy Collier

Andy Collier — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:44:45 +0000

I have been thinking a lot about things like this lately. A good friend is going to UPEI and really wants to major in Philosophy. It’s not a high demand career path, but it’s his passion.

Part of what he is studying at the moment is the question of religion/souls/etc… Do we have a mind (soul) and a brain (biological computer) and are they separate? Is their a intangible part of our being that is separate from the biological wiring of our brains? And if so do we go somewhere paradisaical when we die?

Laine and I were discussing this last night and we came to the same thought that having a reward or promised land in the back of our minds makes us tend to not treat our current world all that great. We also concluded that this premise holds true on a smaller scale. Eg “It’ll be so great when i get that new job! I’ll not waste any effort making this job any better…” or “When we move to out new house it’ll be so great, I don’t have to put any effort into this one” and so on.

Not all people do this, or at least not all to the same extent, but I think human nature makes us all do it a little. Part of what really fascinated me was the concept of secular humanism that states that all we need is to believe in ourselves and our fellow humans to be good and make the world we live in to be the paradise religion promises.

Not every one can make that leap from faith in a amorphous god being to faith in each other but I think it would make a huge difference in the world!

If we take that concept down to a personal level and have faith in ourselves, and also in our present day situation as being pretty damn miraculous we’d all be pretty fulfilled. Setting goals is good though or we’d all become quite stagnate, but our goals shouldn’t be based on achieving a perfect life, just continuing the perfect lives we already have.

I don’t know that I have answered the question you intended, but your post is timely with what I have been questioning about life and existence.

Thanks for the thought provoking post!

Comment on In a Perfect World by Laura-Jane - Whimfield

Laura-Jane - Whimfield — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:18:45 +0000

PS: But I guess eutopia would be very boring and unsatisfying if people just walked around eating grapes and playing harps. See? This is why I am confused!

Comment on Driving Across Canada: How to Sleep in Your Car In the Depths of Winter (Part 1) by Eiki

Eiki — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:04:10 +0000

I live in Iceland and I own a motorhome fiat ducato 1991 model,whit gas heater but I wuld like to buy Webasto heater:)

Comment on This is our Bedroom by Grow closet

Grow closet — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:01:46 +0000

Hi there – first off, been a longtime fan, but this is my first comment. I thought I should probably say thanks for posting this piece, and I’ll be back!

Comment on What’s Your Thing? Passions and Hobbies by Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:46:03 +0000

What a great post Laura-Jane. I just found your blog. I’m still looking for my “thing”, although currently I am into being a mom and homemaker, although I work outside the home too. I’d love to move to PEI, and perhaps that will be my thing. But I’m still searching…

Comment on Obstacles Will Forever Be Obstacles until Dealt With by warren

warren — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:56:23 +0000

It sometimes seems lie our whole house is full of these…tings that lay around because we just don’t want to deal with them…every now and then, just like Cameron, we “take a notion” and fix it up…and it’s rarely as bad as it seems like it was going to be

Comment on Obstacles Will Forever Be Obstacles until Dealt With by John Quimby

John Quimby — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:03:58 +0000

Been pondering this post for a few days.
Came back to read it again and laughed when I saw your title and the picture.

Laughed because I noticed how often we create the obstacle we have to overcome.

Comment on Why Bother? Because It Feels So Good to Love and Be Loved by Glen Housel

Glen Housel — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:43:12 +0000

Lots of Fantastic information in your posting, I favorited your blog so I can visit again in the future, Cheers, Glen Housel

Comment on Obstacles Will Forever Be Obstacles until Dealt With by Mom Marjorie

Mom Marjorie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:42:42 +0000

I admire your ability and tenacity to heat with wood; I was always fearful of creosote build-up which everyone warned me about, never being adept at getting fires hot enough!

A memory of house-heating in my childhood is when we “functionally” heated the house with a coal furnace in the basement, and used our cozy fireplace in the livingroom for special occasions. Traditionally, on Sundays, your grandma Connie and grandpa George would spread the picnic blanket on the living room rug and we three would sit on it, happily scarfing down toasted salmon sandwiches, and toasted cheese sandwiches while revelling in the fireplace. For desert we would toast marshmallows. (I still have a burn scar from a flaming marshmallow that fell off the stick onto my knee when I was watching our new-fangled TV.
By the way, I still sometimes use this vintage silver grill for toasting such sandwiches.

Hey, I clicked on your link, (where the words “the last time” are underlined) – and today’s blog seems like a great sequel to that 2009 log-struggle. Worth rereading!