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The Courage to Rest

Bewildered

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The Cultural Shaming of Productivity

I was 50 when I moved to the woods and that first year I was so scared because there was so much culture saying everything will fall apart unless you work. And after a year I had realized while wandering through the forest that in the ecosystem of a human life if we can let go enough we will be provided for. If we're willing to let go and trust the forces of the universe what we're meant to do will come to us as naturally and as beautifully as the hunting fishing basket weaving gardening things that kept humanity alive for hundreds of thousands of years. That shows you how no matter what gadgets we put into our lives we don't use them to decrease labor we always increase labor to match

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