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No farm. . .

Posted by Tinia Creamer on October 20, 2014

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I am bias. I know I am. . .

For I see no farm complete if it is void
of Dairy goats

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Wearing "Slutty" Clothing Makes Men Rape Women

In a newsfeed I thought I'd tailored to suit myself pretty well (mistakenly, I now see), I've lately found a lot of people carrying on as experts about an issue that really is more heartbreaking and complex than those who haven't been part of it can understand. It is funny (or sadly, not) how opinions work. We all have millions of them, don't we? At the ripe old age of 35, one little morsel (an opinion, too) I have come to believe is I really do not need to publicly assert my thoughts on anything I do not have direct experience with; well, at least not outside of obvious moral codes like: Don't murder people for fun, Don't steal unless you're starving to death. . . You know, the basics. But even those, some person will take issue (that opinion thing). I try, when I really have no first hand knowledge of something, to hold my peace. Perhaps I will connect a few bits somewhat related I do know about, throw it in for conversation's sake, but otherwise, I …

The Bane of Social Media: WHY Your Facebook Newsfeed says far more about You than anything else

When I think of Facebook, Instagram and the like, I think about ways I am able to keep up with people I enjoy and ways I've facilitated hundreds and hundreds rescues of abused and neglected horses, dogs and cats in the past 8 years. I think of how I was able to win a huge victory at our state legislature for freedom in West Virginia. I remember the amazing events I've coordinated through the contact base born through Facebook. I never forget the clear success my small farm has experienced through the marketing through social media month after month. I mull over a neat campaign my husband ran working toward a state seat in politics, too.

I think of all of the moments in the lives of people I know very well or even just a bit. I ponder all the events in my local area I am aware of that I would miss with social media. And never I sure never forget to appreciate the millions of dollars non-profits raise for causes that would be overlooked by us without places like Facebook. So ma…

We have so much Nothing, how can we ever crawl out of it now?

Some folks wonder why we are, in general, sitting here in 2016 so inclined to pastimes and addictions that lead to little of value?

We have to be honest and admit we've long since moved past just looking for fun things to do in our leisure time. We sincerely are people busy doing a lot of nothing far more than we can justify.

People talk about the days of old, as if those were the simple times, and I beg to differ. What was simple about 12 to 15 hours a day full of skills that we mostly cannot wrap our minds around?

We are as a society, though it may not apply to us all entirely, busy on our phone refreshing our Facebook Feed or taking photos to post Instagram. We are busy chasing Pokemon or chatting with 12 online friends while our family does the same across from us. But we do not know how to do much of anything. If we do have a real valuable skill, it is usually very concentrated.

We sit and watch how others do their hair, how they cook or how they open toys and pose them on a …

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