Nostalgia

Dances with Wolves - one of my all time favorite movies. The only way that i can see to improve it would be to eliminate Kevin Costner. i enjoy watching it for the amazing imagery of the native American culture, the open landscape, and the idea of living a simpler life. Just tonight a friend was telling me about how he realized that as his family makes decisions to live a more simple life they stay just as busy. Doing things the old fashioned way he said, "we spend more time doing less things."

Working to live rather living to work. . . hmmmm.

 

i also think about the natural balance. All the animals that God put on the planet that we have taken off (or darn near. . ). There is an account from an early explorer who remarked that they came across a herd of Bison that was a 5 day ride across. Wow!

 

For the meat eaters - Bison tastes better, it is more lean, they grow bigger, and they used to be abundant. Still we cling to our cow culture. . . and now they are cloning those. . . Something is amiss.

 

i love the life i have been given. But still it would be cool to return to a time when we were connected to the land, connected to our food, and more closely connected to one another.
That and horses get better gas mileage!!!!!