Here’s a lil’ diddy about Greasy and Emma… Two young lovers inna pig-a-sty. Please enjoy today’s post: The Biggest Little Farm – Film Review
It’s difficult to capture the feelings elicited by Nature. It’s too much, like looking at the sun. Some are better than others in depicting her. Today we’ll explore one of those fellows, John Muir. Please enjoy today’s post: Hiking With John Muir.
“Ehhhh.” I exhaled audibly over my coffee. “Not quite…” I thought to myself as I read Stephie Grob Plante’s March 25th Vox finance article on the FIRE movement. My fingers began moving involuntarily. Please enjoy today’s blogpost: RE: Vox Article on FIRE Movement.
Mulch on your mind? Probably not. As I write, the country, the world, is… tense, let’s put it. I mean not to make light of the situation, nor downplay its gravity. These are truly unprecedented times. Instead, I’d like to offer a simple distraction, a reprieve from whatever genuinely alarming thing is in front of you right now. The garden and the act of gardening, for many, is therapeutic. I’ve found myself out there more recently. Albeit a bit early maybe, considering it’s just now officially spring, but I’m out there. My natural, seasonal energy which grows as the temperature rises, suddenly kicked into overdrive by the nervous, excitable energy of the times. Gardens away! Which brings me back to hay. I want to incorporate permaculture/organic gardening-inspired techniques as we execute and hay, well… it sounds important. Please enjoy today’s post all about hay, featuring wisdom from some of those who came before us.
Do you ever get the feeling that you were just meant to read a book? As in, it may be the perfect message at the perfect time in your life… I got a bit of that feeling from Paul Jeffrey Fowler’s The Evolution of an Independent Home. Granted, M (my fiance) and I aren’t ready to mad-dash our way out of city life and our little condo on the asphalt quite yet, but The Evolution of an Independent Home gets many gears turning, while stoking the flames of future visions. Please enjoy this book review of The Evolution of an Independent Home, by Paul Jeffrey Fowler
Here’s a short review of: A Year of Less by Cait Flanders and Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More and Live Better by Chris Farrell:
A special thank you to Angela at Tread Lightly, Retire Early for putting the docu-drama on my radar and inspiring me to write this Painting Anna review. The project is close to home for Angela, an intersection of family and career. She elaborates here.
As a follow-up to my recent review of the Playing with FIRE documentary, I thought the two films might mesh well and have some interesting parallels (and maybe salient distinctions?).
Read MoreThe Playing with FIRE documentary screened here in Boston last week. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, so I bought tickets via the Tugg platform and dragged brought my girlfriend along.
Not really sure what to expect, I knew FIRE and some of its voices, but little else. More pressing at the time though, we were lost.
Read MoreLike most folks, I want to see progress. I want to know I’m getting better, that I’m fine tuning, improving, growing.
I’ve written about some personal frustration applying this to wellness. I can be streaky, a good stretch followed by overindulgence, from beastmode to Homer Simpson.
Read MoreWhat’s the longest you’ve ever been by yourself?
Take a minute and really think.
Is it hours? A few days maybe, if you’ve done some solo adventuring. A week possibly, if you’re hardcore.
For Christopher Knight, the truly unique protagonist of The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit, by Michael Finkel, this solitude extended 27 years.
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