Friday, March 6, 2009

path to freedom blog


Their movie is cool because they use their urban property in Pasadena to grow organic fruits and vegetables in their own back yard. They also raise goats, chicken and ducks, which supplies eggs and milk. What struck me is that they make their own bio diesel fuel, and that nobody has to worry about a job, since they live off wht they grow on their land.

Their needs are mostly supplied by what they grow on their land, and by using solar panels and man-powered tools and appliances. They still have to buy clothes, but I can tell they have not bought clothes lately. They try to stay away as much as possible from the culture of the industrialized urban world around them.

Their wants are basically nothing, they are happy with what they have and what the land supplies for them. They only need their love for one another and care for each other, and they are free from the outside pressures of the industrialized world.

Their lifestyle relates to Ishmael because they live more sustainably just like Ishmael is explaining in the story. They live more like hunters and gatherers or the tribes that Ishmael described in his stories of explanation. They live as though the takers were never invented.

I think it is really cool that they live this way, but I would still play sports even if I lived the way they do. I think that they are living a new life style that will be followed by many in future years who want to live sustainably and live free from our destructive and chaotic world.

Learn more about the Dervaes family here: http://www.pathtofreedom.com/

1 comment:

Ms. Charlotte said...

It was funny when you said that you could tell "they had not bought clothes lately." I think it's great that people are being thrifty with the things they buy instead of listening to people say what is the latest 'fad.'