Advice from an old farmer

Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.
Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
Words that soak into your ears are whispered… not yelled.
Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight.
Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.
Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.
You cannot unsay a cruel word.
Every path has a few puddles.
When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
The best sermons are lived, not preached.
Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.
Don’t judge folks by their relatives.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life… Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.
Don ‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t bothering you none.
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.
Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
The biggest troublemaker you’ll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin’.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.
Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.
If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around..
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.
Most times, it just gets down to common sense.
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That VFF badge

I wear a small badge everywhere I go.
     
It’s physically quite small, but can cause some interesting reactions.

It’s never anything overt, it’s always a passive/ agressive attitude, as if it annoys them,  but they wont talk about it.

The badge almost belongs in another time in some ways, and to some I think it’s a reminder of what they want to forget.

It’s from a time of covid mandates, lockdowns, closing schools, and discrimination against the unvaccinated.

Voices for Freedom were one of several ‘anti vax’ groups.

Back then in 2020, we were considered the scum of the earth by some, because we refused to go along with the whole covid scamdemic .

I still wear it because I still spend a lot of time with friends who were on the same journey as we were, and it’s a reminder of who we are and what we stood for.

Covid may be gone for most, but the people that engineered that crisis and profited from it are still out there, and they aren’t going away any time soon.

The WHO, CDC, WEF, etc still have plans for the general public, regardless of what they may think or feel -and thats dangerous.

The world has gone crazy in the last few years, and to be fair, some of my new friends have some pretty interesting thoeries about flat earth, 5 G cell phones, etc.

Then again, those who would criticise them haven’t shown themselves to be pillars of virtue in the last few years, and theres still no sign of any sort of public acknowledgement or remorse, at least here in NZ.

So I still wear that badge with pride, it’s a reminder of when some of us stood our ground, at a time when so many seemed to lose their sanity.

Perhaps it’s an anarchcronism from another time, that people would rather forget, but to me it’s a reminder of how fragile civilisation can be.