Psychology and the Good Life

[wonderpony]

Recent wise words from “Just a few Acres” Pete.

OMG! I miss Pete! I used to be able to email him early in the week and he would pull up next to our building with stuff that we had ordered. If you can, get some of his bacon. It really is the best and I have tried bacon from most of the other local bacon dealers.

 

[wonderpony]

AGREE : Simplicity is a wonderful goal , there is a great comfort to it especially when you are at a point to get off the treadmill of making a living and all the psychological baggage that comes with that melieu .

Life aint a dress rehearsal, tis wiser to get busy making a LIFE , not just a living . We are all MUCH MORE than what we do .

Collect people , not stuff , stuff is strictly a short term satisfier . It only generates more problems and frankly NO ONE cares about your materialism .

Now you do need ENOUGH dough and security but not to beyond supporting your needs . FRankly athat is never worth simply draining your LIFE force to empty. So do what you like ,but like what you do ( honestly , not self delusional thinking ) .If you genuinely like what you do as many do GREAT , keep doing it

Campy is on target with noting that the best things in Life are the simple things that many of us learned from our parents. They often had a very clear focus on the difference between needs. Vs wants .

 

[wonderpony]

My son recently told me that some said that he was an experience guy, not a thing guy.

I like that.

<Sorry for the craptastic follow up post to Warp Daddy's. I couldn't figure out how to edit and delete. )

 

[tirolski]

My son recently told me that some said that he was an experience guy, not a thing guy.

I like that.

<Sorry for the craptastic follow up post to Warp Daddy's. I couldn't figure out how to edit and delete. )

They give ya some time to edit but it’s short.
Harv knows the rools.

 

[MarzNC]

Campy is on target with noting that the best things in Life are the simple things that many of us learned from our parents. They often had a very clear focus on the difference between needs. Vs wants .

My parents left Beijing when it was under siege in the late 1940s with one suitcase each, plus a suitcase for my brother who was a toddler. They didn't have that much since they were professors, and were never that attached to material things after they made their way to New York City a few years later. The most treasured item I kept after my father died were the wall maps that have pins marking their trips in N. America, Europe and around the world. The experience they gave me and my brother by spending money on traveling was . . . as they say . . . priceless.

Being at North Country School in middle school was all about learning from life experiences. It's the people, NCS teachers and staff, who make the place special. Was just as true for my daughter as it was for me decades earlier. I make the drive north in August most years because spending a few days there living the simple life is the most soul refreshing time I can imagine. Part of the reason is that I get to spend time with city people who are grounded and appreciate the value of time spent in the woods.

The families who bring their kids are mostly connected to Camp Treetops, which uses the same campus during the summer. Just celebrated the 100th anniversary. Here's what a few families did with their kids last Sat morning. The hike up from campus to Balanced Rocks takes a little over an hour with kids. One man who went to school, as I did, hadn't been back for 20 years. He brought his wife. It was her first mountain hike. They plan to be back next summer.