I wrote this a few years back... a conversation with some friends about taxes/tax resistance brought it to mind. I hope it is still true in my life.
Dear Money,
Some are at ease with you,
others feel guilty about having you as their own,
others... ambivalent.
some dread the thought of life without you claiming that you will make life easier than it might otherwise be.
personally I wish I wasn't taking the time to write you at this moment. You don't seem worth the time, but everything around me tells me you are worth something.
yes, Christ spoke of you often. but he did not address you as I do now. I've been trained to have a relationship with you... He never went there.
Christ spoke of the kingdom of God
Christ's currency was people...
I belong to that kingdom
I don't belong to you and you don't belong to me
I don't like your new twenty's and I don't collect your silver state quarters.
I don't NEED you anymore. My focus in liberation not accumulation.
I don't SEEK you anymore. My focus is the kingdom not wealth and comfort.
I don't TRUST you anymore. As one who is economically regenerated, I don't seek financial freedom, I have freedom from finances.
bank accounts and statement balances no longer wag my convictions.. faith wags my wallet.
call me an idiot, call me foolish and naive... I will no longer white nuckle your false security.
open hands, kingdom vision, jubilee.
eric
4.29.2007
4.18.2007
this just in from just this farm
Hi friends of Just This Farm:
If you are interested in getting excellent quality grass fed beef this year, raised at Just This Farm, I have a proposal for you.
For the last several years I have been purchasing heifers in early May from another farm, and then keeping them here at Just This Farm for six months. While they are here, I use a rotational grazing system, so that they are eating high quality organic pasture during their stay. I do not use any growth hormones or antibiotics (I don't even know how to). The animals typically gain about 300 lbs over the six months. I then take them to a local, inspected butcher shop at the end of November, and distribute meat in December to those who have placed orders.
This year I am short on cash, but would still like to purchase 4 One year old beef cows in a few weeks, and keep them here as I have in previous years. So I am looking for interested folks who want to buy a cow now - in advance. I have arranged to buy 4 animals from another Organic farmer. These animals will initially weigh about 700 lbs, and the going price this year is $1.50 per lb. (Beef prices are high because corn prices have gone up- and feedlots use lots of corn to produce "corn-fed beef".) Cows are designed to eat grass, however.
So here is the proposal
You buy one whole, or 1/2 , 1/4, or 1/8 share of the cow, and then pay your share of the other costs involved, including transportation and butchering fees, and pay me the farmer, $500 per animal for the work I will be doing throughout the season in watering the cows, moving them using rotational grazing methods so they have high quality pasture, and mowing the fields when necessary.
The total cost for each animal will be approximately $1,800-$2,000 and you would end up with approximately 400 lbs of grass- fed meat for your freezer in December. This equals about $5.00 per lb when all is said and done, (which what I charged last year).
The price for 1/2 would be approximately $1000, 1/4 would be $500, and 1/8 would be $250.
I will have each cow weighed at the beginning and would ask you to pay your share of the initial cost up-front, the remaining costs would be paid at the end.
So, to take me up on the proposal and to become an owner or partial owner of a live cow, (which you can come out and visit if you want this summer) you would need to pay approximately this amount up-front:
Whole cow @ 700 lbs x $1.50 lb = $1,120 (approximate value)
1/2 share = $560
1/4 share = $280
1/8 share = $140
These cows are a Shorthorn/Piedmont cross and were raised at Twin Parks Organic Farm in West Salem, Ohio
Please let me know if you are interested, by either sending an email or calling me at 614-805-5776.
Other news: I will again be at the North Market Farmer's Market this summer in the same spot as I have had for the last 5 years.
I am also helping to organize and will participate in the 2nd Annual Garlic Festival to be held this year at the North Market on Sunday, August 19th.
Thank You.
Kevin Eigel
www.justthisfarm.net
If you are interested in getting excellent quality grass fed beef this year, raised at Just This Farm, I have a proposal for you.
For the last several years I have been purchasing heifers in early May from another farm, and then keeping them here at Just This Farm for six months. While they are here, I use a rotational grazing system, so that they are eating high quality organic pasture during their stay. I do not use any growth hormones or antibiotics (I don't even know how to). The animals typically gain about 300 lbs over the six months. I then take them to a local, inspected butcher shop at the end of November, and distribute meat in December to those who have placed orders.
This year I am short on cash, but would still like to purchase 4 One year old beef cows in a few weeks, and keep them here as I have in previous years. So I am looking for interested folks who want to buy a cow now - in advance. I have arranged to buy 4 animals from another Organic farmer. These animals will initially weigh about 700 lbs, and the going price this year is $1.50 per lb. (Beef prices are high because corn prices have gone up- and feedlots use lots of corn to produce "corn-fed beef".) Cows are designed to eat grass, however.
So here is the proposal
You buy one whole, or 1/2 , 1/4, or 1/8 share of the cow, and then pay your share of the other costs involved, including transportation and butchering fees, and pay me the farmer, $500 per animal for the work I will be doing throughout the season in watering the cows, moving them using rotational grazing methods so they have high quality pasture, and mowing the fields when necessary.
The total cost for each animal will be approximately $1,800-$2,000 and you would end up with approximately 400 lbs of grass- fed meat for your freezer in December. This equals about $5.00 per lb when all is said and done, (which what I charged last year).
The price for 1/2 would be approximately $1000, 1/4 would be $500, and 1/8 would be $250.
I will have each cow weighed at the beginning and would ask you to pay your share of the initial cost up-front, the remaining costs would be paid at the end.
So, to take me up on the proposal and to become an owner or partial owner of a live cow, (which you can come out and visit if you want this summer) you would need to pay approximately this amount up-front:
Whole cow @ 700 lbs x $1.50 lb = $1,120 (approximate value)
1/2 share = $560
1/4 share = $280
1/8 share = $140
These cows are a Shorthorn/Piedmont cross and were raised at Twin Parks Organic Farm in West Salem, Ohio
Please let me know if you are interested, by either sending an email or calling me at 614-805-5776.
Other news: I will again be at the North Market Farmer's Market this summer in the same spot as I have had for the last 5 years.
I am also helping to organize and will participate in the 2nd Annual Garlic Festival to be held this year at the North Market on Sunday, August 19th.
Thank You.
Kevin Eigel
www.justthisfarm.net
4.16.2007
Our "Justice" System. Apathy Is Death
Our "Justice" System. Apathy Is Death
adam wilhelm
Our justice system isn't any where close to rehabilitative. In fact, it is more destructive than anything else. Have you ever hung out with educated people who have been in and out of jail before? They exist. They have MA's and BA's. They have wives and kids and families, and they want to be a part of the Church. They want to have a good job and help support their families. But they slipped up. Most of these guys just did drugs at one time or another. So they get put in jail, got everything taken away from them and rot for a few years without learning any useful skills. Then they get released on probation. The world shuns them, the workforce shuns them, and they are expected to have it all together in a matter of two weeks: stay clean, have a job, a place to live, and go to their _'s anonymous meetings. Oh, but any drug distributor will befriend them, any gang banger or drug lord. Any pimp will offer opportunity. Sometimes, if their lucky they get a referral to a place like Urbane Knights. They get accountability and learn to manage their lives and get jobs. And we wonder why there are so many relapses, so much returning to the jails. It's because we reject them and don't believe in them. It's because of the "bad person" gene perception that we have and the prejudging. It's because of apathy, because we refuse to trust, to take the risk. And then they choose the easy thing. The dog goes back to its vomite. Have you ever had lunch with and relaxed on a Sunday afternoon with "bad people?" It's really quite nice. But oh, the struggle. If we were under the amount of stress they are in. Surely we who have it all together might be crushed.
adam wilhelm
Audubon Ohio : Columbus Audubon Center
birder's delight
Audubon Ohio is developing the state’s first urban Audubon Nature Center at the Whittier Peninsula site, which has been designated an Important Bird Area of critical habitat. The most exciting element in the Audubon Center project is the opportunity to build within the downtown community. We will empower urban youth to enjoy and protect the nature in their own backyard instead of busing children to nature somewhere in the suburbs or country. Rather than reinforcing the destructive message that everything worthwhile is located outside their own community, we will instead ensure an experience that will return a long-lasting positive impact for the urban community. We will exploit the power of nature to engage area residents in revitalizing their community.
Audubon Ohio, the City of Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, and the Columbus and Franklin County Metropolitan Park District are collaborating on this major “green” project to develop the Whittier Peninsula of the Scioto River into an urban greenspace anchored by an Audubon Center.
Audubon Ohio : Columbus Audubon Center
Audubon Ohio is developing the state’s first urban Audubon Nature Center at the Whittier Peninsula site, which has been designated an Important Bird Area of critical habitat. The most exciting element in the Audubon Center project is the opportunity to build within the downtown community. We will empower urban youth to enjoy and protect the nature in their own backyard instead of busing children to nature somewhere in the suburbs or country. Rather than reinforcing the destructive message that everything worthwhile is located outside their own community, we will instead ensure an experience that will return a long-lasting positive impact for the urban community. We will exploit the power of nature to engage area residents in revitalizing their community.
Audubon Ohio, the City of Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, and the Columbus and Franklin County Metropolitan Park District are collaborating on this major “green” project to develop the Whittier Peninsula of the Scioto River into an urban greenspace anchored by an Audubon Center.
Audubon Ohio : Columbus Audubon Center
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