A city girl's explorations into sustainable living

Recently I found myself unemployed, pondering what I should do with my life next. All the career books say, do what you love. Find your passion. Follow your bliss. As if there is an answer -- a solution that will allow you to make money doing what you were meant to do. Help the world, help yourself, and make money!

For me, it's not so easy. I'm interested in a lot of things, but nothing that I am willing to invest in enough to turn it into a career.

I'm what Barbara Sher calls a "scanner," or what Margaret Lobenstine calls "the Renaissance Soul." At least that's what these self-help books for the career-stunted tell me.

What I tell myself is that I'm a learner. And what I want to learn about right now is sustainable living. I have a feeling it's what I'm supposed to be doing -- even if it doesn't pay. Even if it COSTS money to do.

I am meant to be a student right now, exploring peak oil, the economic crisis, climate change, sustainable agriculture, community building, permaculture, natural capitalism, Transition Towns, rural sociology, and my own spiritual growth. I honestly don't know where it will lead, or what it will amount to, but I invite you to share my journey.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

100 Mile Diet | Day 5

Today I ate rather well. I finished off my Swiss chard quiche for brunch; then I made pumpkin custard to add as an amendment to my pumpkin pie, which I felt didn't have enough flavor. I added lots of pumpkin pie spice to the custard -- maybe a bit too much. But the balance of spicy custard, as a topping on the milder pie, worked out quite nicely.

For dinner, I fried Shiitake mushrooms in homemade garlic-lemon mayonnaise. I combined the mushrooms with garlic-parsley potato salad and a steamed banana pepper stuff with leftover beef stew.

I made the mayonnaise with a fresh egg from Bluebird Gardens; olive oil (a trade item); garlic from Bluebird Gardens; and fresh-squeezed juice from organic lemons (another trade item, which I bought from Wal-Mart).

The garlic-parsley potato salad had potatoes and garlic from Bluebird Gardens. The parsley, which was grown at Lida Far near Frazee, I bought at the Detroit Lakes Farmer's Market.
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