This morning I have no words available at all. Maybe it is a Saturday thing. Working alone each day and this week being a busy one I never even had time for a grocery shop, I do find myself drifting further and further away from words. 
I seem to be dealing more in pictures. I discovered my stock trailer had a flat tire and without thinking I took a picture of it and sent the picture to Our John. It was just information – no need for words.
I think a lot though. Here is Sheila. We do not often see her – down there in the back-field with Poppy. 
She got very thin for a while this summer so I am feeding her a little more. She is looking better now. These temperatures are perfect for pigs so she is more active.
These little piglets have actually made a tunnel here. Through the bales. Not quite reaching the freedom of their winter pen on the other side. I discovered it last night. And made them a big high-walled landing area on the other side. So they will come out to safety if they continue in the night and don’t just burrow further and further under the drifts of straw that are waiting to be their winter bed. They are on an escape mission of their own – piglets!
Usually, the babies do not go far from their Mum in the dark though. Pigs have prey mentalities for all their size. Though pigs have been part of daily farm life a long long time. I read that pigs may have been domesticated as early as 10,000BC. In fact the earliest dinner bones at archaeological sites have been from the pig. That is long enough ago to make some interesting evolutionary changes both intentional and accidental.
What I find most interesting is how quickly the porcine species can revert to the wild and survive very successfully. I wonder whether humans will fare as well when thrown back to living wild without our carefully devised infrastructure of dependence. We must be wary of dependence. We must also be VERY wary of being MANIPULATED into digital dependence: by Aunty Google and Faceless Facebook. (Facebook owns many other apps you know – including Whatsapp and Instagram – both of which I use).
It is hard to stay free of it all though as it is so damned convenient. Damned probably being the operative word in that sentence.
But when wildfires flare or storms or floods or earthquake – on the biblical scale we have seen through the ages, and particularly lately, we must be ready to at least be able to THINK by ourselves and for ourselves. On our feet. Not with our fingers.
Well, I certainly found my words!!
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi.
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57 responses to “WHERE-AS YESTERDAY I HAD WORDS”
Well said!
Thank goodness you noticed it now and that flat didn’t happen when you were on the road! The calves are so cute (and well on their way to becoming their own little herd?: ). SO very intelligent, these little pigs! Are yours more so, or is this completely normal?
Completely normal I think – Though I have a rule to only breed clever pigs. They survive. Breeding stupid sows who are bad mothers is not in the plan. You just get dumb piglets who are hard to keep alive.
Completely logical (for breeding of any kind; )
thinking with our feet and not our fingers….I like that!
Yes!!
Good to see Sheila again. I still have my Tshirt, but she’s no longer fat.
I like to think I would be OK without gadgets and electricity. I also know that being in touch with friends around the world keeps me sane.
Growing food and surviving would keep me busy, but no communication with other artists and free thinkers at all… Not good.
This is true – to be so cut off!? That would be awful. I feel so bad for the people this happens to
I was surprised and horrified on a recent 1 hour flight to see all the small children clutching their very own brightly coloured plastic ipads, tablets whatever, then the HUGE tantrums when they had to turn them off at take off and landing, one small boy kicking my seat back so hard and screaming that he had to have Youtube and couldn’t wait. And parents saying they didn’t like technology but simply had to have for flights………what happened to talking to your kid, reading, doing colouring in? My daughter travelled the long haul from the US to Oz with 4 under 5, a pair of 2 year olds in the mix, with out any technological help, and set out with the mindset that she might be awake for a lot of that time, reading stories and keeping little ones occupied. I have trouble finding words someday too…………not today obviously 🙂
I agree. Though the tech tools are useful for kids they do need to know there are other things to do – like listening to a story. If those kids on that flight had been prepared though it would have been better. Then they would have been ready for the tech black out.
The very best thing I learnt studying economics some years back was the phrase ‘the opportunity cost of time and money’ – Methinks that enters my mind almost every day . . . each dollar can only be spent once, and each and every activity takes up time one cannot spend elsewhere or use again! So what will one choose: a cup of coffee and a loving talk with a friend or fooling around on Facebook; a healthy walk in the park communing with birds and animals or a trip to Instagram; learning a new skill or cooking an interesting meal from scratch or trolling along with Pinterest . . . I know which choices I have made! Crossing the world to learn about life and lifestyles of others likeminded on blogs at a time of short rests from other activities is great fun and leads to both knowledge and friendships . . . but life is here and now to be enjoyed . . . . and it ebbs and flows and we do not always have to have words . . . actually the best way to live is to empty one’s mind and go into total meditation for some periods every day – you live longer, healthier and happier . . . .
Yes – spending a dollar only once is something we should SHOUT out.
I lose my words all the time. I find that when my John is away hunting, fishing or whatever and I am solo out here in the country I become more and more silent by the day. I might murmur to my animals but to actually talk? It doesn’t happen as I’m not a ‘phone’ person either. Sometimes when John gets home I feel like my communication is stuck and I actually cannot get the words out, strange. Sometimes I think he believes I’m angry with him for being away – truly I’m not, I treasure my alone time. I do FB to keep track of family members, sadly since everybody is grown with families we don’t get together nearly often enough so it’s nice to see their posts. I must say, I would miss google, it’s just so darn convenient, say when you don’t have an ingredient for a recipe and need to find a substitute.
I know! We are always asking Aunty Google. For so much. I keep reminding myself to buy paper maps just in case!
But, Sherry, Mr Google is only an ‘operating system’ which certainly does not count as ‘social media’. At a time Encyclopaedia Britannica has become a great-grandparent or we may not have a dictionary in hand; at a time we may want to know weather conditions in our area or look up a word in French or Hindi; at a time most banking and dealing with govt orgs is done on line, how else could we manage? In my birth country of Estonia all voting and paying of taxes is done on line in a matter of minutes thru’ Mr Google. I am not arguing against using modern methods to make life simpler and faster, just wasting one minute of one day when there are more useful things to do in ‘real life’ 🙂 !
Agreed! I’m old enough to remember having to slog off to the library to consult the reference librarian! Sure wish I’d had Mr. Google when I was researching school assignments. Just think of all the time that would’ve been saved. That said, I often find some hilarious things on FB and having a good laugh is never a waste of time. As for the ugly stuff there, well that’s what the scroll wheel on the mouse is for.
J & D > Oh how we agree with you about dependency! Most of modern western society is now extremely vulnerable. Most electronics – especially if with cables attached (even if not connected to the grid) – is suscepible to damage in electric storms: usually some small component on a PCB will get burnt out (though not necessarily with visually apparent damage). Keeping livestock keeps us all grounded”
As one who has spent a quarter-century and more working on the docks, in solitude and silence, I understand perfectly that “loss of words.” The silence we choose to surround ourselves with can seep in until we haven’t, in fact, lost anything, but gained the sort of interior quiet that people spend enormous amounts of time and money chasing. Beyond that, we have time in that quiet to think. People used to do that a good bit: to solve problems, to ponder curiosities, to make connections between that which seems to others unrelated.
On a slightly different note, when I began blogging I followed a Danish graphic artist whose tagline at the top of her page was, “If I don’t have anything to say, I won’t say it.” It’s not a bad guideline.