26 Feb 2011
Living away from the land and in a modern city or town, we deliberately forget how precarious daily life always has been. We have hospitals everywhere, machines or professionals that do our physical labor, news reports of every freak-accident and catastrophe and statistics that tell us exactly how likely we are to die in any particular action. My mother sends me texts threatening to call the police for a lost person if I don't respond to a phone call after five hours, for Christ's Sake!
Here, I am doing physical labor all day and, should an accident happen, I am an hour drive down winding mountain road to the nearest hospital. Living off the land, you simply worry less about accidents. What good will more worry do? People are closer to the natural state of things here: we all are born, we all will die…let’s not waste too much time worrying about it. The work needs to be done regardless. The adventures of three-year-old Nong Ti in Thailand was the perfect example of this. Or, for example, using an electric sander on stone walls without a facemask or goggles or driving a tractor after five glasses of wine .
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