Last week I tried to Skype in to an Essential Oils class that my friend Aisha was teaching in Saudi Arabia. The connection to the class was hit or miss and I felt terrible that I could not share my thirty minute lecture. We talked it over and decided that I would make a series of backup lectures for her to refer to as she teaches future classes, so here are those lectures!
Part One
I have read a few articles the past few days about all these dead bankers. Click HERE to read the latest.
“It’s become a health hazard to be a banker. What evil lurks beneath the pile of bodies?
In growing numbers, the bodies of bankers are piling up in the streets — at least eight global financial types in recent weeks (and five others in the past year). And a financial reporter for The Wall Street Journal walked out of his house and mysteriously hasn’t been seen or heard from in weeks.
So what gives? Three of the bankers worked for JPMorgan. One worked for Deutsche Bank AG. Others for companies not so prominent, i.e., not “too big to fail,” but possibly implicated in one or more of the number of investigations being undertaken in FOREX fraud and the LIBOR scandal. Maybe they uncovered something they shouldn’t have. Maybe they knew too much to begin with. Some of the “suicides” have been deemed “suspicious.”
In the Doctrine and Covenants is a scripture that talks about our day. It says:
“26 And in athat day shall be heard of bwars and rumors of wars, and the whole earth shall be in commotion, and men’s hearts shall cfail them, and they shall say that Christ ddelayeth his coming until the end of the earth.”
It appears that we are winding down this experiment in Keynesian Economics that has laid waste to our world economies for the past hundred years.
And the big question is what is the transition to Austrian Economics and Freedom going to look like for the average family?
When I was a young mom I had many promptings about preparing myself for end times events. This meant that we spent time and resources on food storage, books to self educate, and as I have said over and over on my blog, I made the choice to learn Mothering Self Reliance.
Whenever I would have a dream or a prompting I always thought the event that would compel me to need a skill or a practice was just around the corner or weeks away. This made for some funny purchases as I prepared. One time I had a dream about us cold and in need of warmth. So I went to wal mart and bought big snow suits for the whole family. We did end up using those now and again for sledding and camping in the mountains, but mostly they took up space in the closet and I eventually sold them at a garage sale.
Now that we are completely prepared for whatever may present, it is interesting that it is the economic world that is wobbling.
During my dreams and in my waking nightmares as I contemplated which sort of a scenario might cause us to need the skills I always thought it would be a war or a natural disaster.
But an economic collapse, especially on a world wide scale could also be as devastating as anything else.
I love this video that describes the difference between Keynes Economic Theory and Hayeks Austrian Free Market teachings:
I hope and pray that any sort of collapse around the world does not affect you too badly dear reader. Ukraine and Argentina are wobbling like Greece did two years ago and unfortunately the way we are all wired together, one default may mean many defaults.
God Bless
Paul, Andy and I attended a church supper tonight and I took a few pictures and interviewed our cook Kerry Gunter.
I live about ten minutes from Green Mountain where the so called Flagstaff fire broke out in Boulder just about a week ago. Colorado springs blew up the night before this fire broke out and as we followed the story on the news and then started to smell the smoke as it increasingly blasted into our neighborhood, I wondered if we would experience the same sort of crisis as the families two hours south in Co Springs.
I have breathing issues and found myself needing to cloister in my bedroom with air purifier, air conditioner, and humidifier as the smoke grew and grew. It was a difficult night because I have many friends in the Springs and was concerned about them and also my friends who live in the mountains of Boulder. I did not believe that the fire could come all the way across Boulder Valley and then over the ridge into Louisville where we live, but I was watching amazing scenes of evacuation from the south.
The firemen in Boulder immediately went to work and made it impossible for the fire to come over the ridge into the city. They are the rock stars of our community right now.
Here are all of the photos I was able to find on Twitter and Facebook. Plus an amazing time lapse of the Waldo Fire and an interview with Boulder Residents who were getting out of town.
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Last night at the Louisville Rec Center our LDS Ward hosted a Food Storage Know How Class for our Community. We had three speakers and a Q & A after the lectures. I was happy to be included in the mix and had my husband video tape my thoughts to share here on my blog.
Most of my writings revolve around Self Reliant Mothering and this class was just an extension of all of my long term efforts to put the tools of Mothering into the hands of the women who are looking for them. Having a supply of basic food stuffs is one of the most effective and healthy things a family can do to further their own economic and health goals.
If you would like more information about Food Storage, please go to the Provident Living web site set up by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to learn more.
The Home Storage Section of the site has great information on how to get started storing and preserving food!
And the Emergency Preparedness section of the site teaches the principles of proper Water Storage, Short and Long Term Storage, and how to help dispel fear by being prepared.
If you would like to purchase some foods available from the church’s online store click HERE.
It is my prayer that any efforts you put out as parents will help to provide for your family during life’s storms.
