The return to the origins, to the natural, to the pure air
- You have another consideration of the passage of time and the seasons . You know that you don't need a watch to identify the times of the day.
- The concept "farm School" makes you choke with laughter.
- You look with a certain disdain at the neo-rurals and you think the dream of “Leave everything and go live in the country” . You do know how hard and how wonderful that life can be. You could do it, but it's not for everyone.
- The fallow and the crop rotation They are not social class terms or agronomist engineering terms, they are concepts with which you have always been familiar.
Would you leave everything to go to the country?
- They make you a little sad dogs that live in cities yes
- You know that it is not necessary for a tomato to have a organic farming certificate so that it tastes good.
- You have even taken vegetables grown with pesticides and fertilizers that taste much better than those of any ecological basket of 5 euros per kilo.
nothing like the town
- The working calendar does not have to be the same throughout the year; did you know there is always work but emergencies are not from one minute to another , and depending on whether the days are longer or shorter, there is time for everything, to work and to relax.
- In the same way, you know that there are obligations and dependencies from which one can never take a vacation.
- If you have in front a piece of bread you are able to appreciate everything behind it: you know that you have to cultivate the cereal, that it grows healthy, collect it, grind it to make flour, knead it and cook it. You see the time, investment and work that goes into it.
- You are also able to appreciate all the work behind a bar of soap, but less.
- You recognize what they mean the different peals of a church bell.
Virgin of the Boat, Muxía
- The weather It is not something that your Saturday plan depends on or that serves to have a good conversation in the elevator: completely mark existence.
- The rain is a nuisance because there are things that have to be done outdoors even if they are falling hot, but if it takes a long time to appear, you start to worry.
- They can randomly tell you the name of a neighbor and you will be able to establish in a moment family and work ties between him and all the neighbors of the parish.
- Jokes about rednecks make you sick and the gracietas at the expense of the people who are from the town.
- But you know how to make a few very good ones.
Oh, the taste of freshly milked milk...
- As a child, your basic means of transport is the bicycle.
- Being of legal age and not having a driving license is not an option.
- You understand that having a relationship, if not friendship, at least cordial, with your neighbors is essential to have a comfortable life.
- You know the taste of freshly milked milk.
- In fact, you know how to milk perfectly.
- You have collected eggs directly from the chicken coop and you know how your boots look after doing it.
- When you visit an ethnographic museum you think that most of those tools and equipment you have seen them in operation, alive, not as collector's items.
Piornedo in Lugo. It could be your village.
- Driving on secondary roads you are prepared to have to dodge rabbits, sheep, cows, horses or boars.
- You know there is nothing comparable to dry clothes in the sun and outdoors.
- You value the natural environment as much as you find examples of carelessness when not directly of aggression towards it around you.
- You confess to picking fruit directly from a neighbor's tree without his permission, at the risk of triggering the third world war.
The neighbors, quasi-family
- You have knowledge of basic mechanics, carpentry, electricity and plumbing, because you can't wait for someone to come from 30 kilometers to fix your life.
- The gps does not serve to guide you; it does not recognize half of the paths you usually travel.
- Do you think a popular festival in a meadow can be more fun than any party in the most exclusive of clubs.
- You can make a fire, light a fireplace and start an iron stove.
- You are used to shopping in one of those shops that sell bottles of gin as well as shoelaces.
The verbena of the town, the best time of the year
- You have witnessed bitter confrontations with those from the town opposite, who deserve everything bad that happens to them because they are Mangurrians.
- You know infinite characters to whom the adjective would suit them so well "genius" as in "crazy".
- You know how to engage the gears in a tractor.
- The day Decathlon came into your life, your wardrobe changed forever.
- Meeting your parents, grandparents and close relatives out at night seems like the most normal thing in the world.
- You know that the total silence at night actually it is not such, there are infinite sounds in the night that you can recognize.
- The only thing that has prevented you from seeing the stars at night are the clouds.
- You perfectly understand the meaning of the phrase "small town, big hell", but you wouldn't change yours for anything.
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