There is something we have forgotten, and it outweighs everything else. We veered off the right path we were on. Those who survive win the race. Empires can rise and fall. Wars and famines can come and go. Natural disasters, pandemics, dictators… None of those circumstances hold significance, as we appear to have overlooked a crucial law of nature: those who survive win the race. Our basic...
“Friedrich! get the goats in the barn, son!” The warm African afternoon air grazed his hardened face. Karl was a tall man. Life on the farm had tanned his skin for most of his life. He was a Boer, a descendant of the first German and Dutch settlers to arrive in South Africa. Also, part of the last generation to have lived during apartheid times...
There’s been a few key moments in my life that marked me and changed me forever. One of those moments was the birth of my firstborn. Becoming a father had a profound effect on me. It was a rite of passage. All of a sudden, everything that I was; everything I knew at the moment; everything I had done; all fell into place, and I became a man. Because you see, any idiot can get a woman pregnant, but...
I was raised in a Catholic family. My mother and hers (my grandmother on my mother’s side) were profoundly devoted Christians. I was baptized at a very early age (I was so young that if it where not for a couple of pictures, I would have no recollection of it whatsoever). And as the good young lad I was, I happily followed the only tradition passed on to me. So I went about my life attending mass...
Erwin C. Mayer is the founder and editor of “A Sip From Mimir’s Well”, a website dedicated to exploring spirituality, parenting and self-sufficiency.
As a husband and a father of two boys, Erwin is inspired by his Native European ancestry to return to traditionalism and a life lived in communion with mother nature.
When he is not busy creating content, Erwin wears his entrepreneur hat. Otherwise, you’ll find him out in the woods.
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