Power is off

OnceUponATimeIBelievedInSmiles
2 min readJun 5, 2021

I have installed solar and like life it seems somehow still reliant upon the power grid. I mean I know I’m not off-the-grid living in a fairly normal town in the Midwest, but having a chance to go off grid is limiting. Extreme acts within the system are slight of hand more often than not. I mean, I have insurance and water lines, taxes and natural gas, my roof says, solar, and maybe that suggests some vague form of what we could be/should be, who knows. I think of my costco membership, a buyers club of members, yet, how do I really stop them from those chickens they spin on the rotisserie and sell so many of………how do I really stop climate change and global warming alone. Symbolic independence is kinda that, right? I use solar, LED, drive a high efficiency car with a balance for safety yet the world doesn’t change really, I’m absolutely NOT slowing down the climate, the food chain and this is how minds go to waste and give up and we recognize our company store situations more or less. Perhaps the best power is knowing you haven’t given up and are at least devising ways toward alternatives. I feel I’m full of potential opposition at the ready and actively trying to figure something out and maybe that’s my end line. I’m in hiding and still thinking of miracles, still doing tiny acts of revolution that at least show others we’re here, tiny little acts of power that are trying to squeeze a bit of power away from the larger power structure. Maybe. Hopefully. Tentatively, Perhaps……….

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OnceUponATimeIBelievedInSmiles

“sometimes a great notion” appears and I think I’ll be a writer, I make mistakes on this platform, writing fast and I’m okay with this. Pacific Northwest’r