Every day I am challenged with decisions that I make. When we built our house the decisions were numerous and daily. What is the best insulations material? What about roofing? What about windows? What about cement? What about heating methods? These were decisions that could most of the time be supported by data. Although some times the data was twisted by each interested party. The decisions that I find the most complicated are how I interact with people. Should I take a leading tone? Should I just listen? Should I direct? Should I ignore? Should I redirect? These decisions about how to interact become much more difficult when the topic of interaction is something that you are passionate about. I am passionate about simple living and leaving a light footprint on the earth, so when I interact with someone who could care less about recycling I find myself in a quandary of thought. One side of me wishes to educate and the other just wants to.... I find it hard to choose the "compassionate road" and considering the other persons thought process, feelings and reasons. Building the house was the easy part of simple living, following the spiritual path of simple living has challenges around every corner.
House update:
So far this year we have burned about 19 cu ft of firewood (full cord has 128 cu ft). The house is toasty warm with the past few bright sunny days. Today the inside temp was 65 in the morning and at 5pm was 69. I have a feeling that this might be our first month with a $7 electric bill we have been making about 5kw of power each day. ($7 is the lowest your bill can be even if you use no electricity)
Next post ---- Backup solutions when the grid power is out. Any suggestions.
Peace
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