Radical Homemaker: Part 1 of many

A few months ago, Ross and I bought all the paper and tools to make my very own business card.  After I quit a recent job at a bistro/bakery, I decided it was time to make my own opportunities.  I wanted to stop living the decisions other people made and start making my own.  Now a few months have gone by and my cards aren't made.  I tend to do this.  Get an awesome idea, play around with it and then day by day it fades away.

What had been really bugging me was that I couldn't think of a title that I wanted on my card.  Baker?  Upholster?  Farmer?  Really I could put any of those, but I'm still learning and don't feel 100 percent about them as a title.  Then as Ross and I were driving back from my sister's house, I was reminded of a book I read this past fall, Radical Homemakers, by Shannon Hayes.  She talks about the revival of homemakers and how we need to become units of production as opposed to units of consumption.  Maybe it was the farms we were passing or the growing of corn or the lack of noise pollution in the city, but the book and all its lessons came flooding back to me.

That's it!  That's me...a radical homemaker!

She speaks on having governing principles of family, community, social justice and the overall health of the planet guide our daily lives.  And more than anything, she tells of radical homemakers being fearless.  That is where I have gone astray.  I have let fear creep it's way back into my thoughts.  I may not have an arrow that points in one specific direction for my life, but I have a general direction and I'm going after it.  I will work on being a unit of production and do all that I can to head towards that life.  I will read, educate myself, ask questions, volunteer...but most of all be fearless.