tomorrow i may say different, but today wealth is confidence, confidence born of a convalidation by the world of personal choices made with difficulty, and which get easier, the more people get on board.
seeing necessities and services that are perennial, food, shelter, relief from pain, tight energy cycles through waste reductions and growing awareness of undervalued resources right under one's nose, so to speak.
example, we are weaving a duck house out of elder saplings, and i am attending a course on cob building that uses similar weaving techniques to create the frame for filling with cob later.
i have been trying to cut back the elder for years, it always grows back stronger. now i use it instead, and the fact that it regrows so vigourously has become a feature instead of a bug, as i realise how the same system and materials can serve for rabbit hutches, poultry coops, dog kennel, and with cob, a pizza oven!
planting bamboo for its beauty, then realising later its value as winter evergreen animal fodder, tomato vine support, and now the duckhouse frame.
the elegance of finding ones needs met right outside the door, like growing one's own food, tightening the cycles, less driving, less need for money, more sense of energy self sufficiency. this is wealth.
but as vladimir infers so wisely, all this is nothing without the true love of sincere friends, be it ever so few. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
