Rec | BEING SELF-SUFFICIENT FINANCIALLY

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Find ways to independently make money (selling art, learning to fix things, growing food, etc.) so you don't get stuck working for a corporation that will take all your time and energy, leaving you less able to care for yourself and your friends and family, and do other things.

@taolin

Feb 1, 2024

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@fatherpubaluba

This is not so easy for me in the Monasterie. I have taken a vow... Josef did not agree with the vow. That disagreement is why he keeps his pied a terre. I have visited him on more than one occasion to say, "Josef, we have made a promise." "Este es mi vida," he said to me, on the last occasion. We were sitting on his balcony overlooking the Salumeria. "My life is my own." "You made a vow," I repeated. He refilled my water glass and called down to a woman on the street. Her name was Carolina, he told me. "Carolina will have my child soon. And what will my vow do for him?" "We have ways of handling this," I said. "Please, come back with me to France." I write now from the local convent. The brothers have treated me well here. There are six cows and the milk is fresh. I have just paused to take a drink and wipe my lip. The showers, I am told, are new. Soon I'll be ready to take one. We will see what Josef says tomorrow.

Feb 1, 2024

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