I try to remind myself each generation considers itself smarter than the previous iteration. If you follow the bouncing logic ball, this means the next (younger) generation believes itself smarter than its present day cohort. In essence the millennial generation of today feels superior to those older than them while simultaneously inferior to the pack nipping at their heels.
Call it a superiority/inferiority complex, though admittedly the superior portion leads the inferior since we are all immortal gods at that age. Soon enough that wears off, usually around 30ish when we begin to recognize vulnerabilities already present and obvious to all but ourselves.
Ultimately smartness or intelligence is a relative measuring tool. There is no doubt my nineteen year old college student rocket scientist is much more adept at deciphering mathematical equations or manipulating genomes than I am. But can she determine which way a tree will tend to fall before cutting it, or smell snow in the air long before it begins to fall? Continue reading Wisdom, Experience and Just-In-Time Thinking→
Probably the one topic Mrs. Cog and I return to more often than any other is our amazement how so many people who profess awareness and understanding of the coming chaos and hard times remain firmly rooted in their present situation. Despite acknowledging the runaway train barreling down the tracks directly towards them, they do little to nothing to get out of the way.
They know they are dependent upon a failing state for most, if not all, of their needs. Whether it is food, water, sewer, electricity, security, employment, whatever area we wish to examine, they remain tragically dependent upon a failing state to ‘not fail’ in order to continue to provide what the failing state soon will be unable to supply. Continue reading This and That Vol 4 – Mid Winter Musings→
Taking a Pass on Gas – Wood Preferred - Part Three
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High Desert Homesteading
This is the final installment of this wood stove installation article. Actually, a major remodeling project more accurately describes the entire process.
Part 1 and Part 2 covered the near total demolition of the original gas fireplace, which was encased in a large moss rock structure, and the installation of hearth flagstone and a cultured stone (partial) back wall. Part two ended with several large tasks still to complete.
Those chores involved a lot of woodwork on the back wall and ceiling, the installation of a new insulated chimney stack, moving the 450lb wood stove up some stairs and onto the hearth, and the final installation work to prepare for the first wood fire. Continue reading Taking a Pass on Gas – Wood Preferred – Part Three→
