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Your Friend Dave's avatar

You have put into words here what I have been feeling for the past couple of years. Most of the people in my family's social circle are laptop class, but I am one of the ones responsible for the movement of tangible goods. It has affected relationships to say the least. Thank you for this.

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One August my other half began freaking out and buying in hay, (thats the last month of winter here in New Zealand), we went all spring and summer without rain. He checked with our neighbour, he and his father had journals from 1902 since they farmed the land here - in over a hundred years there had never been a spring drought, I still don't know how he knew.

From across several fields my other half can see something is wrong with a horse or cow. I have researched his 'regenerative | agroecology' approach to farming, but born on the land he will know things, like an instinct, I never see. This is both from a deep knowing of place and being anchored in nature ... To take that away from people is to destroy their very soul, what we see echoed in the sadness of indigenous people generations after such loss.

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