Comfort in a Post-Modern Age

You know, I'd like to be able to point to one specific watershed event in my life that led me to these conclusions but there just isn't one. It sort of grew out of my reading and then the people I met who were at all different stages of life and the process of simplification.

Then my wife and I just started simplifying. Get rid of this, trim a little off of that, and before long you look up and you're not living the same life that the rest of America is. We never really had a concrete goal or an example, but we just started peeling back until we were feeling happier about it. Then as time progressed and we got used to various things we peeled back even more.

I want to make clear that you don't have to abandon all worldly possessions and go live in a cave in order to simplify. It's a journey, not a destination. And a big part of it is simply an intellectual exercise until such point as you actually need it.

I can't point to one particular event either... but it was sort of like a light coming on all of a sudden..one minute I was living right smack in the middle of a big city in a condo with a six figure job..DH was retired from the AF and now working on a second career. We had four kids in high school who thought loading the dishwasher was work. We had all intentions of moving back to Alaska as soon as they graduated HS..

Next thing I knew, I felt totally compelled to stay here and not move back to AK ( I can't stress how strong this feeling was) , buy land far out of town and hard to find and build a home with our own hands ( even though we had no experience whatsoever at building), grow our own food ( only had a flower bed before that and no animals). I became obsessed with learning how to do everything without anything...I wanted to have three ways to fufill our basic needs...Ie) three ways to obtain water...I am still obsessed and furiously learning soemthing new everyday...I just thank goodness my DH went along...My kids refer to it as the point in time when "Mom lost her mind"...LOL..

To finish the story..we found land, built the house, made the gardens, animals..I have learned many things...the kids married and started their families but are now in the process of moving to the farm with us..by the summers end all but one will be living here with their spouses and children...A time that I will refer to as the time " I lost my mind"...LOL

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Christanie Farm...living life as it was intended