How much longer

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

I will agree with the 10-15 years time table though maybe sooner as time seems to be speeding up like water circling the drain. Honestly I'm not sure if I would rather be alive to witness it all or to be gone from this world before the last drops fall. I fear tremendously for our grandchildren and it saddens me to imagine what their futures hold.

I pray for the future generations. I know I can never prepare them for what is to come, so I try very hard to provide them with a good foundation on how to deal with living comfortably and happily with nothing.

I was so blessed as a child to have grown up poor in the country. We lived with the woods behind us, walking distance from the river, and with a tad longer walk to the ocean.

We grew up knowing that if you "needed" something, it would be provided, and if you"wanted" something, you had better work out a plan to get it. Because no one was going to hand it to you.

You learned to work with purpose. How to barter. How to care for animals on the homestead. How to plant. How to fish, and how to harvest. How to store foods in the spring house, and in the smoke house. How to can, and how to dehydrate food. 

My Dad took me hunting for the first time when I was eight years old. I didn't shoot anything and ended up making my Dad bring home a rabbit. Alive. It died months later after he ate my Mother's favorite indoor plant. 

Just joking. Mom didn't kill it but she sure wanted to.

Anyway. That is the best we can do for them. Build strong character in them, and teach them how to survive.

More important, teach them what is worth living for, and what I is worth dying for.