Hello there,

Thanks for the invite. If you're interested in the problems associated with debt and the difficulties people often experience in the mainstream economy, I'm all ears and would enjoy a dialog with you.

My primary focus is on food security and resilience: eating locally produced food, growing a kitchen garden, home canning and preserving, bee keeping, maintaining a really well stocked pantry, and working with friends and neighbors to absorb hard times.

According to your web link you seem to have a religious focus. I'm not a believer myself, but I do appreciate church groups for the community and support they provide. I'm open to many faiths. In fact I get many of my most useful and practical ideas from Mormon sources. I prefer faith-based initiatives that work to solve problems in a pragmatic manner. I shy away from theocratic Us-vs.-Them churches. For example, I have elderly aunts in Miami who refuse to go to the nearest Catholic church because it was "taken over" by Cubans. There isn't a hair's breadth difference between Sicilians and Cubans as far as I can see (ask any white Southern Baptist), but these distinctions are very important to some folks.

- Johnny