The essence of our property and the way we’d like to live on it is beautifully captured in this poem: Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water. Lay your bed where the cat sleeps. Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm. Boldly pick the […]
Sunshine has always been quite a determining factor for my health and wellbeing. I grew up in Michigan, which receives very little sunshine throughout half of the year. We could easily go two weeks without seeing the sun, and I remember intense depression and lethargy due to it. My Vitamin D levels were unbelievably low […]
The RV wasn’t fully packed. The house wasn’t fully staged. We had a living room filled with clothes and bags and boxes that still needed to get put… somewhere. And we had 30 minutes until our 4pm showing. It was crunch time. Dustin was now sprinting to and from the truck, putting boxes and bags […]
I had come up with an outlandish idea, as is my nature. I’d research the states in the US to find the ones we’d be interested in living in, and then narrow it down to a couple towns in each state we’d like to visit. Then, we’d get the house ready to sell, buy an […]
We’ve been very intentional about choosing to live a more simple life. The awareness that we wanted needed to live this way came to us in waves, over years, and through many trials. It didn’t happen all at once. It was gradual, slow, and entangled in our healing from oh so many things. We both […]
And the people realized time in nature is what they had been missing. So they turned off their WiFi and communed with nature. They learned how to grow their own food, and why this was a part of healing. They learned how to make their own toothpaste, cleaners, and lotions. They learned the importance of […]