Mead
Yesterday I made my first batch of mead. Started it, anyway. This makes me incredibly happy.
I am going to start blogging regularly about mead and soda brewing. I might make a separate filter for it, or eventually even make a separate blog if that seems reasonable. For now, just let me know if you do NOT want mead-making updates.
I cannot even tell you how good it feels to be starting a project that will result in something tangible and productive. I like to even think that mead makes people happy. It does me, at least.
For my whole life I have been pursuing the abstracted, intellectualized version of "life" that has been in style for some time. This was fine, I was making money and had nice things. Well - to make a long story short I burnt out on it. I got tired of being a part of the bureaucratic equivalent of a dog chasing its own tail indefinitely. The whole system was designed to perpetuate itself whether or not it was still useful. For those of you wondering, the specific mess I was a part of was environmental laws in California. Yeah.
So I got out. I looked for another such job, but kept feeling like I my energy was being blocked, like banging my head into a wall. Finally I decided I needed to be putting energy towards something I really wanted, something that felt good and fulfilling and productive. For me, that something is making mead.
I am still going to need an income, of course. I just hope having the project going will get the energy in that area of my life flowing again, too.
As a side note, I am listening to Heidevolk, a Scandinavian Folk Metal band that really makes me want to drink some mead.. :)
I am going to start blogging regularly about mead and soda brewing. I might make a separate filter for it, or eventually even make a separate blog if that seems reasonable. For now, just let me know if you do NOT want mead-making updates.
I cannot even tell you how good it feels to be starting a project that will result in something tangible and productive. I like to even think that mead makes people happy. It does me, at least.
For my whole life I have been pursuing the abstracted, intellectualized version of "life" that has been in style for some time. This was fine, I was making money and had nice things. Well - to make a long story short I burnt out on it. I got tired of being a part of the bureaucratic equivalent of a dog chasing its own tail indefinitely. The whole system was designed to perpetuate itself whether or not it was still useful. For those of you wondering, the specific mess I was a part of was environmental laws in California. Yeah.
So I got out. I looked for another such job, but kept feeling like I my energy was being blocked, like banging my head into a wall. Finally I decided I needed to be putting energy towards something I really wanted, something that felt good and fulfilling and productive. For me, that something is making mead.
I am still going to need an income, of course. I just hope having the project going will get the energy in that area of my life flowing again, too.
As a side note, I am listening to Heidevolk, a Scandinavian Folk Metal band that really makes me want to drink some mead.. :)