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.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

100 Mile Diet | Day 2

This local-diet is turning out to be harder and more time-consuming that I thought. I spent the entire day today shopping for local foods, looking through cookbooks, researching recipes online, and preparing ingredients for nebulous dishes.

This morning I enjoyed a much better breakfast than yesterday: fried eggs and fried eggplant. Tonight, I cooked a huge bowl of kale and Swiss chard; so far, that's been my entire dinner. No protein, except for many some worms eaten by accident; as I was eating, I found a couple dead, fried worms in my bowl of cooked greens.

I am cooking hominy on the stove, boiling pumpkin pieces, and roasting half a pumpkin and a sweet potato squash in the oven. I am not really following a recipe and I don't know how long to cook any of these things... I'm planning to judge by intuition.
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