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Had a bit of lag this morning between getting up and getting fully awake. Spent a little time mindlessly browsing videos while imbibing enough caffeine to get this old body jumpstarted.

I was somewhat impressed with the HUGE number of videos of young couples (and some not so young) buying up old, sometimes crumbling, buildings and then getting by making videos of renovating them to live in and on which to build a life. Makes me think that just maybe these newer generations aren’t completely lost souls.

When I was young the things we protested about and fought over in the 60s weren’t anything of which to be particularly proud. The legacy much of it left was destructive and did more harm than good. Most of what we built was nonsensical and doomed to failure like Communes and Violent Political Movements. Tearing things down is easy. Building something to leave behind you is a lot harder. Many of the more cynical got comfortably rich on the naivete of young idealists providing free money and free labor in Communes or being the useful idiots sacrificed in political violence or the unwed mothers left with children to raise alone by “Free Love” or the lives shattered by drugs.

So it’s comforting to know that a lot of the young folks do see value in getting their hands dirty building, creating, taking something old and making it new again. Learning how to once again do the things we’ve forgotten or discarded. Give me at least some glimmer of hope for the future… not much… but some.

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The Book of the Farm (1889 Fourth Edition)

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