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About All In
All In is a place for everyone who works at NCPR to share behind the scenes activity, and surprising, curious, lovely or distinctly local tidbits from our travels around the region. We’ll post the best of what we find online, too. From time to time, you may hear from others—if you’d like to write an entry, send it to [email protected]. What makes this place what it is? How do we connect to each other and the world? That’s what ALL IN is all about.
Living “off the grid” means less time to sit on your butt. I don’t know a lot of people who truly live OFF the grid, but do know a lot of people who are less connected. often they are engaged in growing, raising, making, or building something. Be it vegetables, chickens, art, music…it takes time. Building a home, or a family, or a business takes serious time, and connected butt time takes away from it.
They say it takes 10,000 hours to become proficientl at something…piano, guitar, sculpture…chess. There are a lot of people who have become very proficient at…being connected…nothing else.
If you want to pretend it is 1700, go ahead a pretend it is 1700.
I enjoy the scent of freshly cut wood much more when I use a hand saw.
…non-sequitur? :–)
just completely different. We have an Amish family living on our farm- so to them, we are futuristic. We have the internet, but no TV. The way we interact with the world is amazingly different because of that one thing. I have no desire to live in the past- my kids move easily between cultures- build a house out of trees they cut themselves, but have cell phones- like so many in the north country- amphibious or bilingual between environments and the languages of old loggers, and new bloggers.