Joyce, I've written you off list to explain more exactly what I saw. I don't equate your upbringing with being poor or with 3rd-world country povety. It is more like paradise, as you say, but that is not what I saw. I saw none of those things that made your life so rich- no gardens or tractors, chicken pens or chickens, livestock or barns, ponds, or hard work being done maintaining them and living off them. I was raised in Cajun Country, so I know what 'moneyless wealth' means, and also what grinding poverty means, and they are so very different. You possessed much more than money can buy. People in abject poverty possess nothing of what you had and rely on others for survival. You were self-sufficient, which is different from insufficient. DonO
----- Original Message ----- From: Joyce To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 6:35 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: count your blessings I feel I must comment. As one who grew up with no electricity, no running water..that is,unless we ran up the hill with the bucket to the house, dirt road with the last two miles non-graveled, I had a wonderful childhood. Mine was a rural farm where, we had a 2 acre garden, 5 acre potato patch, same for sweet corn, raised our own melons and had chickens, eggs, fresh pork and beef. I grew up eating better than much of the rest of the world. We worked hard, had a house with worn out linoleum floors but knew how to work, raise our own food and had much love in our family. We had a lake 20 rods from the house and plenty of fresh fish..mother loved to fish and taught the kids. So, yes, they may be poor, we were, but there was no violence, no worry about gang shootings, never a worry about where our next meal was coming from. We sold eggs and cream which meant we also knew how to care for dairy as well as beef cattle. We used horses as well as a tractor, so we knew equine ways as well as how to gap spark plugs. In short, this was an idyllic place for me, and I'd not trade my "third world" upbringing for anything. We had the knowledge that though we were poor, we were loved and self sufficient. Joyce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.560 / Virus Database: 270.12.26/2116 - Release Date: 5/15/09 6:16 AM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
