Welcome to the revolution

I love it when the unexpected happens. It reminds me that no matter how much we plan things out, no matter how many people work on a job, no matter how much we want it to go smoothly, some things just take their own sweet time. Whatever will be, will be.

Work has stopped on the kitchen.

Yesterday I was dressed and had eaten breakfast before the workers arrived at 7am. My plan was to have everything done and my basket packed for work, and to write my blog after they arrived. My computer is away from the work area, no problems, I thought. HA! I said hello to all of them, organised my basket, and came in here to write. Then they turned off the electricity. : ) Plan B - I drove to work. I thought I'd do my post from there before everyone else arrived but I got busy straight away and stayed that way all day.

So, what happened in the kitchen? They removed the lower cupboards, then the floor, and found water laying under the floor boards on the concrete slab. A lot of water. The floor will dry out until Thursday, when the workers will return. Apparently the entire kitchen will be back in by Friday afternoon. It's now Tuesday morning. : )

I have to tell you how much I loved reading about the changes you've been making in your lives. The comments made on the previous post, and the emails I received, turned yesterday's ordinary day into a diamond. It's strange what motivates us to change. Behavioural change is supposed to be the most difficult and yet it's been achieved by reading words on a screen, and knowing there was the need. Of course that is too simple for what has happened here. Those changes made were the result of a number of things. I think my blog shows a life being lived. I try not to talk too much of why Hanno and I live as we do, I want to just show and tell the ordinary day-to-day doing of it, with sprinklings of what we get for our efforts. We all know we've used too much of our planets limited resources, and polluted our water, air and soils because of it. What we need to do is to peel back the layers of our lives, look at what we've got, and replace the layers with only what is absolutely necessary. (A bit like my kitchen.) We are all changing from being users to conservers, and when our layers are back in place, it will reveal a simpler life.

I hope my blog shows that we are all part of a profound and significant group. We aren't alone and we aren't weird to want to live this way. Simple living will help restore the planet to a more stable place and we are leading this revolution. We got into this mess by believing the lie that we can all have whatever our money can buy. It didn't happen overnight, it was a fifty year process to get to this point. It won't be reversed fast either but every mile we don't drive, every piece of plastic we don't use, every vegetable we grow or buy locally, every person we talk to about our lives, will help repair the damage. I am thankful for everyone who reads and everyone who comments because it shows that we are part of that simple revolution. The rest of the neighbourhood just doesn't know it yet.