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Most of us have seen a caterpillar slowly inching its way along a tree branch concerned about only one thing—survival The caterpillar’s great goal in life is to find its next leafy meal.

Contrast that with the butterfly it is destined to become. The butterfly will be free to fly high and see wide to experience a magnificent view of the world not available to the caterpillar, to experience the feel of a flower under its feet, to taste the sweetness the nectar provides, to fly from flower to flower, bush to bush, and beyond.

Which would you rather be?

This may be considered one of my strangest blog posts. Would you believe it if I told you I heard my worms hum. I never thought I would be a worm farmer. I’m a small insignificant little worm farmer, with a 12 x 12 inch three story farm box, but nevertheless a worm farmer. Here’s how it happened. I’ve always wanted to make my own compost but it seemed too messy and too smelly until I heard about these little red angler worm farms. You simply get a pound of worms put them in a worm farm box with some coconut shell shredding and start feeding them.

Didn’t know one could get so attached to a chicken. For the first time in my life, I decided to raise chickens…mostly because I have a friend who has raised chickens before, could keep them on his property and make certain they are cared for properly. I had them in my laundry room the first two weeks and had one as a pet. I sat her on my shoulder from the time she was 3 days old and she loved to cuddle under my chin. I got very attached to that little girl and she to me.

Relationships are a mystery to most of us which makes it difficult to make them work. While reading the Essene mysteries of relationships I came to understand them better and now look at them differently. Rather than write an entire blog about my views I am sharing a blog by Matt Licata which outlines some of my thinking. This view is a new and much more realistic view of relationships. Here we begin to see that they are not all fun and games, they are designed to help us grow. See Matt's perspective:

In the Idaho Statesman today an article appeared on the difficulty older people are having getting jobs. Even the most talented are having difficulty. Older citizens are frustrated, feeling less than, feeling victimized and just plain scared knowing that there are just not enough jobs in America in large part due to to disastrous affects of NAFTA which sent so many of our jobs over seas. That’s the bad news.