Paul's blog Archives - Coweeta Heritage Center https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/category/pauls-blog/ Off-grid Homestead and School For Sustainable Living Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:26:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Paul's blog Archives - Coweeta Heritage Center https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/category/pauls-blog/ 32 32 Gratitude https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/gratitude/ https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/gratitude/#respond Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:26:43 +0000 https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/?p=694 Christmas or more accurately, the holiday season which rightly must include Thanksgiving,when we give thanks for stealing the lands we now inhabit from native Americans, whoalready had established nation states here, is a time to reflect and more importantly to realizeour gratitude for what we have. And if we can’t have what we want then …

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]]> https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/gratitude/feed/ 0 On Becoming Human: Us or Them https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/on-becoming-human-us-or-them/ https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/on-becoming-human-us-or-them/#respond Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:02:51 +0000 https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/?p=451 The world was turned upside down when Jane Goodall, primatologist, observed chimpanzees using and modifying tools. Chimps are one of our closest relatives including the bonobo monkey. Her discoveries made us look at what differentiates humans from other great apes. Anthropologists believe that we share a common ancestor with chimps and Bonobos that diverged some …

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]]> https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/summers-end-and-the-future-ahead/feed/ 0 Lost and found https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/lost-and-found/ https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/lost-and-found/#respond Thu, 05 Sep 2019 23:48:11 +0000 https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/?p=432 Me: I’ve thought about what we talked about and it reminded me of when I thought I had lost you. CAT: You mean when you couldn’t find me. ME: Yes, I was beside myself when you didn’t return home that night.  I had called and called and looked everywhere at least a dozen times, but …

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]]> https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/lost-and-found/feed/ 0 I like to think of myself as a farmer https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/i-like-to-think-of-myself-as-a-farmer/ https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/i-like-to-think-of-myself-as-a-farmer/#respond Tue, 01 Jan 2019 23:31:44 +0000 https://coweetaheritagecenter.com/?p=417 I like to think of myself as a farmer, but I realize what I am farming isn’t the produce that grows in my garden, but rather the hordes of microbes, earth worms, and inbetween critters that live there mostly in the soil.  My job is more a care taker of the soil; a nurturer of …

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