Subsistence living examples from some of you older ones in days gone by

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31. My 84 year old husband is from a farm in Ireland

He knows how to work the land and make it work.

He took a fall last year and was not well.

He was really sad and I went to the local dispensary and bought him a clone. I brought it in and showed it to him and he seemed uninterested in it. I took it and put in in the car so the cats wouldn't get it.

It was not 15 mins. after that he was up out of bed and in the yard digging a hole. He planted the clone in the soil and it grew to be decent insect free plant with no pesticides used. No one could believe it as it was meant to be grown indoors under special lights, etc.

Everyone wanted to know how he managed to pull this off.

I told them I did not know and that he is from a farm in Ireland and that is what he does in life, he grows things; he is a farmer.

He got better after that and he is doing pretty good today.

He is not horribly worried about the virus but he's seen a few things in his day. Both of his grandparents on either side lived through the Great Famine in Ireland and died over the age of 100 years in the 1940's.

And we think the old people are not valuable! He often asks me "Where are all of the the old people today?" I don't want to tell him that many are stuck in these assisted living centers and nursing homes, something that no one in his family ever considered doing to an old person. You kept them at home and kept them safe, you valued them, you cared for them and most importantly you loved them until their time came in life to go, just as his family did.

I am so very sad when I hear or read things like "Go die already you old useless fool!", as it is the old people that are still here that can tell us what to do at times like this when we are afraid and scared to death. They know because they've have lived through perhaps far worse times than any of us could possibly imagine, that is what I happen to think.

I also believe that the very old are sacred, as are all living things.