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> Unless the Lord buildeth a house, in vain the laborer toileth.
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LORD, what do you want to build my life into? I know that you'll be tearing things down. Direct me on how to rebuild the rubble and perfect it.
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# Mission
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### Build up a way of living with the Gospel at its core.
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##### Rediscover and rekindle the lifestyle of my forefathers, with my eyes fixed on God.
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## [[The Get-Out-Of-NH Punchlist]]
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# Aspects
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The farm provides for the family, who resides in the house, as a part of a community. The workshop helps build it all, but is sustained by them in turn. All require each other.
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This is primarily for my family. But it's open. It could need some workers. It definitely is open for guests to see what things should be like; to understand God's order.
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## [[Family]]
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## [[Farmstead]]
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## [[House]]
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## [[Community]]
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## [[Workshop Co-Op]]
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### Some idyllic prose
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We arise to the sound of the rooster - though slowly. It's time to say a quick morning offerring and head off to check the animals; bring in the eggs. Milk the cows in the cool of the morning.
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# Understandings
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- Man is put on this earth to till and keep; to nurture things into the best version of themselves: a harmonious offering for God.
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- Work is formative and good. As we shape the world, we shape ourselves and our relationship to the world. To not work is to flirt with mental disorder.
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- Modern, globalized, industrial work is ill-suited to the development of an individual man: it alienates him, it dulls him, it turns him from love. We have built a techno-economic apparatus that forces people to do labor that they don't want to do.
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- Good work is _for_ something. Good work is harmonious, not violent. It has a why. It is character-forming. It is not acting like a machine for compensation.
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- True freedom is the freedom to not need, and the freedom to actually choose, and in particular, to choose virtuously.
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- We do not have to live the way that the modern technological norms suggest - we _can_ opt out. Small-scale farming is controversial because it is possible.
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- A sign of a healthy life is where the elders have something to give the youth.
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- Endless growth is not a good goal - generation is.
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- Fleeing and running are not good.
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- All improvements should be in the form of inspiration and invitation, not imposition.
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### Things to learn
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- Hand tool proficiency
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- Planes
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- Chisels
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- Drawknives
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- Sharpening
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- Pyrography
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- Writing (inspirational argumentation)
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- Permaculture design
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- Structural / building design
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- Canning and fermentation
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- Liturgy of the Hours / Rosary / Deepened prayer life
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### How are you going to learn these things?
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- Follow iBreviary, and say the rosary daily, including the mysteries
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- 2 hours a day doing woodwork or pyrography
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- 1 hour each day civil engineering study
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- 1 hour each day agricultural study
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- 1 hour each day catechetical study
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### High-level "Do-List"
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- Get book list for farmsteading
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- Permaculture
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- EIWTDII - finish it
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- Understand what property we have
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- Ask mom: what to do about LC LLC?
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- High-Level Question: when do I leave, who do I tell, when, etc.?
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- Should I talk to Terry, and if so, how and what about?
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- When / how do I tell:
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- Jackson and Justin
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- Lectio
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- Makerspace
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- Fr. Tom
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- ... I guess tell that it's happening immediately.
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- Lord, when do I leave? Mahrajan, sooner, later? Talk to dad, I guess..
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- How do I want to integrate when I get back? Should I have an "outside" job?
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- Pros: more mingling. More funds to slush around (I guess).
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- Cons: breeds dependency. Less time to build up the 'stead.
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- Narrow path: Part-time at a smaller place that will genuinely form those connections / serendipity needed. (Articulate this a bit better so your Grandpa and parents can help you)
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### Prayers
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- When do I leave?
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- Please, find me good work / a good way of reintegrating. |