Beginnings

Hello all. This is the first post to the newest version of Changing Times. In its original format Changing Times was a news letter, now it is a blog.

The name should be self explanitory.....but if you like i will try to explain the vision that started this writing. Many years ago I became aware that things were changing around us. Old prophecies were coming true in our day and age. I became aware that the times were changing, and not always for the better.

Look at now, 2008, look at the gas prices, food prices and all the rest. Look at the many people losing their homes, foreclosures are rampant and the American Dream challenged. Too many are living with no shelter (we euphamistically call them "homeless"). Look now at the diseases that are raging....antibiotic resistant strains of common infectious diseases, and totally new ones. Look at the cost of health care......insurance does not cover hospital stays, medicines are costing an arma and a leg to purchase, and hospitals are closing or cutting back severely. Look and you will be appalled!

But what can we do? Can we actually help ourselves survive until the government decides what to do, then do it too late?

Yes we can. We can start to make a lifestyle change that will help ourselves, teach others to live better with less (although it maybe more work), and learn how to stay healthier than others around us.

Within this blog will be entries about alternative medicine, gardening, wildcrafting, crafts, cooking and long term food preservation, how to insure clean water, and raise a roof. Anything that might make life easier by looking to the past and bringing it to the now. By using what our ancestors utilized, without losing our modern advancements where possible. It is an adventure worth taking.

Come walk with us and take the first steps to positive change in an ever changing world in these our Changing Times.