This might be my one and only political post on this blog. I don’t get in to politics that much. I don’t follow too closely that is going on in the world of politics more than I hear on TV/Radio/Friends, and even then, I really don’t pay much attention.
This last few months I’ve been paying more attention to what has been going on in politics and it hasn’t been fun. I don’t trust many politicians and the ones I do don’t get in the limelight much. I’ve been listening to talk radio on my way home from work everyday (mainly Glenn Beck because he reminds me of a great friend in Phoenix) and I don’t like what I hear is going on in politics. I’m not a Obama lover nor am I an Obama hater. I’m concerned with where it looks like he wants to take our country and where the Democrats and Republicans want to take our country. So I started reading this last week a political book. It is good, but as I have been reading it this week, I’ve found that it doesn’t make me feel uplifted, happy, nor how I want to feel. After watching my church’s Worldwide General Conference this weekend, I’ve decided that I only want to read something that either uplifts me or is enjoyable to me.
Besides reading the Scriptures, I will choose enjoyable fiction or uplifting &/or useful non-fiction books. This will not include any political books. I had to go to the library today during my lunch to pay a late fee (I swear, the only reason the library stays open is to get payments from us!) and picked up some books that I’ve either read or have wanted to read. (Some may say that the Salatin books are political, but I skip over his political rants and get right to the farming goodness that is there.) Here are the books I picked up:
You Can Farm and Family Friendly Farming by Joel Salatin are both books I have read and enjoyed before. Like I said, he does get in to talking slightly about politics, but they mostly talk about family farming, and how to raise livestock better and how to take care of the land better.
I’ve heard about Cutting Hill by Alan Pistorius before, and I was happy to see it in the library today. This follows the life of a family that is running a dairy farm. It follows them for a year on the ups and downs of running a farm.
I saw the book “The Egg & I” today at the library, it looked interesting. I have no idea what it is about but I am looking forward to reading it.
Beekeeping for Dummies is something I’ve wanted to skim for a while. We’ve been interested in adding a couple of hives to our farm but due to not knowing anything about bees (and Julia being slightly allergic to bee stings) we have put this off, and may continue to put this off for a long time. One good thing for us here is one of the best places to learn about beekeeping is right here in Eugene, Glory Bee Foods. So, just looking to learn some more, see if it something we really want to do.
The last one is a PBS DVD that follows the life of a farming family, The Farmer’s Wife. Not sure if we’ll get through all 6 hours of this DVD, but we’ll see.
So, as you can see, this will be my last post about politics (and this one really didn’t have politics in it except for the word ‘politics’). Back to enjoyable reading!
