Nope. DU doesn't want to hear anything but what they want
to hear. Someone over there suggested they all get into
a "sustainable" lifestyle due to the bad times under Bush.
Well, I can tell them, we live out in the country and have
one of those lifestyles and it is WORK. No time to sit
around contemplating the old belly-button. Gardening,
taking care of animals, shooting game and dressing it out
(oh, I forgot they're vegetarians which means they'll have
to work harder in the garden), hauling kitchen scraps out
to the compost pile, cutting and splitting and stacking
wood, dealing with the dust from a wood stove in the
winter, preserving food from the garden, sigh-h-h. . . .
It may sound glamourous, but these callouses on my hands
aren't very pretty . . .
I recommend they start with "Countryside" magazine.
The "New Yorker" won't be much help.
"It may sound glamourous, but these callouses on my hands
aren't very pretty . . ."
Glamourous? I did all that from the time I was old enough to manage. I started plowing with a draft horse when I was in grade school and switched to a mule when the draft horse died, I milked the cow before school and after school as a teenager, I cut wood as one half of a two man saw team before I reached puberty, I probably averaged walking thirty miles a day every summer until I went into the Navy. Glamourous, it ain't!
I heated one winter with wood--in North Dakota. Now I have a fireplace as supplemental heat or for emergencies, but that was a lot of work.