diff --git a/.obsidian/workspace.json b/.obsidian/workspace.json index 8342362..787a4f2 100644 --- a/.obsidian/workspace.json +++ b/.obsidian/workspace.json @@ -178,7 +178,10 @@ }, "active": "bf1dabd4a617fa7b", "lastOpenFiles": [ +<<<<<<< Updated upstream "15Oct2025.md", +======= +>>>>>>> Stashed changes "Journaling.md", "14Oct2025.md", "Chicory Tea.md", @@ -210,6 +213,10 @@ "Archive/08Oct2025.md", "Archive/08Oct2025 (conflicted copy 2025-10-08 100248).md", "Amazon Running Returns List.md", +<<<<<<< Updated upstream +======= + "amazon returns running.md", +>>>>>>> Stashed changes "stockcropper/1096-05.jpg", "274663921659.jpeg", "274039228009.jpeg", diff --git a/14Oct2025.md b/14Oct2025.md index 6b77e67..5afdc94 100644 --- a/14Oct2025.md +++ b/14Oct2025.md @@ -5,4 +5,86 @@ - [ ] what I think I should do, what the future could look like, how to ride it - [ ] Listen to Anxiety - [ ] Read SC agreement -- [ ] \ No newline at end of file +<<<<<<< Updated upstream +- [ ] +======= + +https://substack.com/home/post/p-171966411 +# Journaling + + People create their problems by having the wrong attitude before God. + +I have been given the gift of some time here in the afternoon on a sunny Tuesday in the middle of harvest. Thank you. + +### Repentance + +Lord, I repent of sentimentalism. Of looking for right feelings. Of trying to feel my way into the right course of action. The emotions are calls for investigation. They are not investigation. I repent that I have misused them. + +That doesn't mean they should be disregarded. In fact I have disregarded them in many ways. + +### Raw gut feelings + +Here are some raw gut feelings I have. They may or may not be accurate. +1. The farm is really disordered. It is too big. It is too empty. We run too hard during harvest. +2. My father is not well-equipped to manage a work crew. +3. Stock Cropper is not a very good idea as it currently exists. If it is to exist it needs a drastic tech scale-back. + 1. A tech scale-back in a tech company? This is weird. It may be right and just but it raises fundamental questions. + 2. Animals need space to roam. + 3. What is the goal here? What are we trying to serve? What are we trying to do? + 4. Is the noncompete OK? +4. I am ordering so much stuff from Amazon and other outside entities in general. It takes a lot of tools to make things work around here. +5. Do I just need to directly work to make a living / help those around me? + 1. can it be the farm? + 2. can it be engineering stuff? + 3. it can't be this grain farming nonsense +6. Am I going to need to leave here? + 1. I am not really tethered still + 2. But I still feel somewhat responsible for my family. They are a mess. +7. Are my talents of more use ecclesially? Particularly, taste, intellect, virtue +8. Sheep aren't gaining like they ought to be. +9. I'm not helping THF like I ought to be. +10. I'm stretched thin. +11. I have no social life right now. +12. My social prospects are not well. +13. Everything is becoming fake. +14. We need to solve real problems, not move deck chairs. What are the real problems? + 1. Lack of togetherness + 2. Lack of good food + 3. Lack of good work + 4. Lack of good spaces + 5. Food. Work. Spaces. Music and liturgy too. But food. Work. Spaces. These are the basics. +15. Ousett's *Action* is convicting. + +### The pressing questions +1. Do I take the SC agreement, or leave it? +2. Do I move out of the house (either to Joyce, or Kathy's)? +3. What do I need to focus on? + +### What is the most impressive/important angle? +Item 14 above. Solve real problems, don't move deck chairs. Quality food, work, spaces. How to get here? +##### A direct approach - same place, different focus? +- Move more acreage over to livestock production +- Build a house - no, build several houses - build a neighborhood +##### The things that are in front of me +- Build up StockCropper +- Use that tech to convert acreage to livestock production +##### I feel like I need better options. + + The room holds us, but sometimes, that’s not why we stay. We actually stay because we don’t yet know how to live without its framing. + +I don't need to solve everything now +But I also shouldn't make excuses... + +Make no compromise with evil + +### Listing perspectives +- You SHOULD - it has been presented to you +- You SHOULD - it is a way to knit your talents with the right direction +- You SHOULD NOT - it is not really the endpoint; it is too technologically complicated +- You SHOULD NOT - it is not a shape of work that you can pass on +- You SHOULD NOT - it is not social enough +- You SHOULD - there can be other fruits that come of this +- You SHOULD - it is a way to grow in knowledge and ability to make things +- You SHOULD NOT - you need to be invested and in the driver's seat +- You SHOULD NOT - you are too geographically decentered +>>>>>>> Stashed changes diff --git a/Journaling.md b/Journaling.md index bfbf3ce..e69de29 100644 --- a/Journaling.md +++ b/Journaling.md @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -People create their problems by having the wrong attitude before God. \ No newline at end of file