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A quote: “Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed – farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There’s a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor – the discipline, the call to action.” ~~ Camille Paglia
I’ll start with a story …
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Yes, an illegal grow. He was a cautious man who had already lost one piece of property when it was determined that it was “private-property”. Now banned for “equity’s” sake.
This time, bizarre layers of mind-numbing paperwork written in dense legalese, his remote acres would read as owned by a quasi-government entity.
Everything mechanized – controlling for light, water, nutrients and government snooping. But this last part he needed to slip in to gather the product himself. The best of his heirloom fields, turned to seeds. Appearing on the blackmarket within days.
Growing one’s own food was a revolutionary act.
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Now, it’s your turn.
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Cameron says: My grandson rolled his eyes but he still did what he was told. I didn’t let him use the good knife though. That could wait.
“I don’t get it,” he finally said as I showed him how to cut tomatoes. “It’s cheaper and faster to get a jar.”
I know he said these things to provoke me but I kept my smile. “You’re right on both counts. But this skill is something you can keep with you. And wait until you taste them.”
Eight years later, he graduated culinary school and I gave him the good knife as a gift.
Here on this world of exile, growing a garden can be an act of rebellion. You’d be surprised at just how many vegetables we eat are toxic to the other intelligent species of the Chong Empire. For instance, the onions and garlic we use to add flavor to our food can kill half a dozen other species, including the Kitties themselves.
On the other hand, the Katachua have a vegetable that looks like a tomato, but doesn’t set well with primate digestion. It’s not so bad for grownups — a night or so of misery on the pot — but a small child who gets hold of one can have a life-threatening reaction.
Which means the malcontents and irreconcilables have a built-in alibi when they decide to poison someone they don’t like. You can never be sure whether a poisoning was deliberate or just someone being careless about checking all the ingredients.
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