I have been actively embracing the Buddhist phrase, “Only by doing nothing can we ever hope to accomplish all that needs to be done.”
I have no wood in. I have no water stock piled even though the spring doesn’t appear to be running and the guy who usually gets it running is dead. It should be an interesting winter.
I do, however have enough oatmeal, nuts, raisins, brown sugar, soy protein powder and some various supplements to last me all winter.
I don’t eat from after noon to 6am the following day. Most days I have a large bowl of super oats in the morning and then nothing again until the following morning. I makes me feel buzzy, full of energy, and a little high.
I do yoga and some mediation everyday.
Not getting the phone, Internet and Netflicks turned on has been a good move. I highly recommend turning off and tuning in.
I’ve been pulled out of my sweet cabin life and into a house sitting stint for my sister. Her house looks exactly like a happy Sim with the wealth aspiration. If you have never played the Sims game before, let me tell you, the Sims with the wealth aspirations are the easiest Sims to make happy—all they need in life is to make or spend money.
Welcome back.
Missed hearing from you.
It is good to have you back. I hope you enjoyed the Grand Enchantment Trail, if that was where you went.
The Sims may be easy to satisfy, but real-life wealth aspiration people are not very happy or satisfied. I know because I live with one. They are full of fear.
If only it were possible for people without wealth aspiration to live in this world without having to pretend we’re wealth aspirators…
I’m glad to hear your online voice again. So I guess the house-sitting stint is a short-term one. Perhaps then back to the cabin?? Perhaps you’ll have time to get a little wood and the water then (though melted snow might work, too)
Take care, Carolyn H.
Hey,
I’m stuck here till the end of November. Taking lots of soaks in the hot tub, doing yoga, watching movies, and meditating.
Then back to one of my cabins. Kicking around the idea of heading up to BC….at least there will be plenty of water but not much dry cut wood there or sunshine.
I bought a cheap down jacket from Cabelas for 40.00 dollars delivered, so that is easing my mind about dealing with the cold.
If I go to my Eastern Washington cabin I could go out and break the dead branches off the trees and use that for fire wood. The picture of me snowshoeing around gathering dead branches is one that appeals to me.
Take care and have a great winter.
-Crow
Hello Crow,
I have wanted to send you an email, but didn’t have your address. Easy Rider and I are back in our bourgeois lives, just waiting for the stock market to rise from the ashes…or for spring, whichever comes first. We crossed into Canada two days after you did, then flew home. Those 120 miles in Oregon will have to wait for another year. I think it’s our fate to return to the PCT once again.
Snowberry