Decade in review
My
brother posted about the last decade of his life so vibrantly (and
succinctly) that I decided to give it a go. The last decade fills
up pretty much a full third of my life to date and my entire
post-college adulthood --- yikes!
2000 started with the
last few months of my senior year at college. Although my
freshman, sophomore, and junior years had been life-changing and fun,
my senior year was stressful and angsty. By the beginning of
July, I was glad to see campus disappear and to instead be hopping on a
plane to England (then Australia, then Costa Rica) for a solid year of
camping and drawing plants.
Although
I'd dreamed of living on a homestead in the woods ever since I was
ripped from our family farm in elementary school, I think my world
travel year cemented the deal. I backpacked the whole time, and
was shocked to return home to the U.S. and discover the size of stores
and supermarkets, and to see the many boxes of possessions I had
waiting for me in my mom's basement. Why would I need all of this
stuff when I'd happily lived with just fifty pounds of camping and
drawing equipment for the last year?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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And where do you want to be in another ten years?
I read your brother's posts on his website/mini-wiki. WOW he's smart!! It's cool to see how aligned your interests are in so many ways.
Stay tuned --- that's Friday's post!
Joey is indeed a genius! In the Linux world, he's extremely well known --- I was a bit shocked when I got to college and found out that my new friends had heard of him before meeting me!