Back in the 1950s, rural communities existed all across the USA. In fact, more than half of all Americans were growing at least some ? if not all ? of their own food at that time, and agriculture was an enterprise that was as common to Americans as the Internet is to today's generation. One of the publications that was widely distributed to those farming families was Grit, a small newspaper that carried helpful and practical articles about things related to live in the countryside. And in 2006, the out-of-print Grit paper reincarnated as a magazine, complete with color pictures and a glossy cover.
Whereas the original publication was mostly sold door-to-door by young people who could purchase issues of it and then resell them for a 10 or 20 cent profit, the modern version is found in stores across the nation such as Barnes and Noble. And although the market demographic has changed, the content of the Grit magazine is not unlike the 1950s Grit newspapers. There are articles about things like how to raise rabbits, how to grow corn and vegetables and then can them for winter, how to purchase farm equipment, and how to vaccinate livestock. Many of the writers for the magazine are themselves farmers, homesteaders, or gardeners, and most of the articles and features are based on personal experience and know-how.
Grit has always stood as a symbol of retro culture and has long been a traditional Americana institution, so those who used to sell the copies in early days are thrilled to see it taking on a whole new life in the 21st Century. And while many expected it to go the way of other publications, and either die out completely or sell out completely to more contemporary interests or advertisers, the publication has managed to stick to its rural roots, continuing to do what it has always done best.
Whereas urban readers might want to find out about their astrology predictions for landing a new job or getting a new love interest, the rural readership of Grit can still depend on almanac info that talks about predicting the weather and the time of year to plant crops. And while urban readers may pick up a magazine to find out the latest Hollywood gossip or New York fashions, those who tend to subscribe to Grit magazine may be much more tuned in to the goings on at the state fair, the produce markets. But in the magazine world, it is ?to each his own? and that is how it should be.
How To Make A Boomerang That Comes Back
As well as the pressures and stresses in all our lives these days, it seems, we see news of worse elsewhere. Floods in Burma, millions displaced, aid refused, control by generals; in China, millions displaced, each mountain ringing some valleys collapsed. Central America sees GI American aid workers on their way home from war torn Iraq. Hurricane and tornado alleys in America on cue, destroying homes, towns, lives. And the sea is rising, with every photo of another massive iceberg meltdown, good bye polar bears and many ways of life.
To maintain our sanity, our health and a sense of a brighter tommorrow even as a faint hope; to mentally survive through these, we must deal with each as it is blasted unwanted slam into our lives. It is in such moments that it is our inner good that surges us forward to help, as you can see in spontaneous actions as a man jumping into an iceflow river to get a safety rope to a drowning man, or a woman desparately reaching for her child under rubble; we want to help. And it has been shown to be highly beneficial to those who help, as well as those they help.
We all have a mom created little inner cub scout in us that was cheered when we helped, knows love: and something kicks in when we see a total stranger in dire stress, in any way. People are innately good, unless trained to hate and kill, as in Taliban schools in Afghanistan, where they planned and carried out the aircraft bombing of the world trade centers, and Osama We almost Forget His Bin Name carries on with impunity and a smirk at his fool for a foe. I do feel it a shame that we have a President who seems to me to possess the attention span of a squirrel, and the aim of Elmer Fudd.
When we finally just say no, and actually leave Iraq, it will raise an army and learn to take care of itself as it has done well since the days of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the present ones who were allowed to steal the most historical precious artifacts of the Sumerian civilization. Shame, that collateral damage, and the deaths. No weapons of mass destruction, but we did create hell on earth through the region and are damned if we can figure a way out: let the next guy or gal deal with that. We understand, President Fudd.
Once that massive financial drain tap of spending is cut down, more Peace Corp, bring back the just retired mighiest aircraft carrier in tandem with the USS Abraham Lincoln, is bring us back his twin, BIG JOHN, the USS John F. Kennedy, and make it America's new statement to earth, is that this Peace Corp ship will tend to follow the scientifically base of where and when often season related floods, typhoons, of pre earthquake warnings, lava blasts, danger villages. And how that would play well around the world.
This would overlap gradually the unfavorable outside press habits as America of the Roman Sword, not America, the Greek hero, defending the right, the weak, the tired, the....is that only America Past? No, by darn. It is again to be America's future. On that newly commissioned USS Jon Fitzgerald Kennedy, BIG JOHN to his revential proud crew. We could well give an Admiral's Cap to the wife of the Governor of California, her husband Arnold Schwartzenagger,the Governator, as good will ambassador.
And like that seniors ad about health care, a donkey and an elephant would be as one kicking and trumpeting against misfortune and need: good America together. Nice start, great symbolism.
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