70F, rainy, cloudy, and sunny
Wind: SW 7mph
Humidity: 56%
Moon: waxing, 99% full!
I'm moving ahead with plans for a doctoral dissertation on the writings of Helen and Scott Nearing (e.g., Living the Good Life, 1954), and the modern homesteading movement's relationship to these texts. How, for instance, do homesteaders that come after the Nearings think about the portrait and standards the Nearings established? There's more to write about as well. I'm interested, for instance, in what women homesteaders emphasize relative to men. Perhaps most of all, I'm interested in the ways in which homesteaders ritualize their time and space in search of a calm, peaceful, orderly, and healthy world.
Recently, M and I have been thinking about the metro-Atlanta properties would work best for further developing our homesteading practices, the Pine Lake property we mentioned earlier, or the property we currently rent, a good bit farther out from the Emory and GSU, were we currently study and (I) work. She's started vegetable and flower seeds for this year's Spring/Summer garden. And I'm looking for a period of time in which I'm well-rested and able to get the old and new garden areas ready for plants. So far, not much happening there, and this term;s schedule is very full up through early May, and then it's time to prepare for summer courses I'm teaching beginning in mid-May. Hmmmmmmm, time for a highly pragmatic plan. Still, if I can carve out/come upon just one well-rested day, starting early in the morning when it;s still cool, I could prepare beds in the new garden (an in-ground swimming pool we filled in a few years back).
