I spend a lot of time dreaming about this ideal life that I’ll have once I’ve moved far into the wilderness and built my hobbit hole. In all my research, I’ve looked for every possible advantage for creating a self-sustaining, self-contained, eco-friendly, off-the-grid dream house.
There’s the way the light will filter into the kitchen, the spaciousness of my living room, the comfortable layout of my studio or the back porch swing that overlooks some water feature (maybe a pond or creek or both). My enormous wind chimes reverberate like miniature church bells and I can hear the birds instead of neighbors. At night, the sky is clear and you can actually see the stars.
Sleek and modern, yet old world charm highlights the arches and curves painted my favorite cheery colors. I invite over guests to stay for vacation (I know it’s such a long drive) and we marvel over how relaxing it is to exist without chasing material goods and wants. We pontificate why we haven’t evolved our society to something so wonderfully simple and laid back. We don’t have lots of money, but it seems so silly to need it when we already have so much.
Sure, there is work to be done. Food to harvest from the garden, eggs gathered from the chickens, goods to produce for income and general housekeeping. It’s not exactly easy work and yet, at the end of it, comes a satisfaction that life is good.
Sometimes it is good to dream, sometimes it’s just sad that the cost is so high.
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