Do you know that you do not have to post about your life? You do not need a personal brand or unifying blog, you do not need a business plan to execute things or a perfect date to start posting again - you can just do what you want when you want, nothing more is needed. In fact, nothing is needed at all. Yes, you have this great idea of ‘curating curiosity’ as a project and mantra for life. And I do believe it is great. But you trying to over plan and over organize LIVING is preventing you from doing that such thing. What you need is less connection, less planning, less branding, less day dreaming, less scrolling and comparing and more small doings. Nothing big. Just pick one thing and allow that one thing to lead to the next thing. You do not need to decide everything and you do not need to have everything mapped out, just go, just do, just be who you are. Yes your life’s mission is ‘curating curiosity’ and a facet is that is creating a self-reliant urban home’stead’ that reflects all those values - curiosity farms, a place that fosters creativity, creation, production of plants and people, a place where we can learn to live with nature, to create something we can be proud of and be an example for our community and create a community of our own. A place that connects us with what it means to be human again - we have forgotten a lot of what it means to be human; and we need to find that again. What is my life’s purpose? To learn, to grow, to become the most me and best me that I can… connect with mind, body, and spirit with myself and the world, to reach cessation and share that with others.
Why do I feel the NEED to share everything right now? There are a lot of theories and I am not very sure, but I feel called by Spirit, etc.. I should not be sharing everything, or anything!. It is not good for me right now - can share periodically but more about learning, growing, connecting and becoming who I am meant to be….creating what I want to and am meant to create. THEN, maybe someday I share and give back. Maybe someday this blog will be public, maybe not. And that is okay, I do not need to figure all of that out now, or ever. I just need to live… to LIVE, to create and yes to document, but to document for me, for us. Through analog, through scrapbooks. Photos, writing, memories, video cameras, how it used to be.
I stand for permaculture, low tech, real skills, warrior in a garden, specialization is for insects, robust/diverse skill set, self-reliance, harmony w/ nature, harmony with others, community, communion with spirit, simplicity, thoughtfulness, integrity, human scale economics, radical home economics, low waste, right to repair, human birth rights of health and happiness - knowing how to keep oneself alive and do so not to just survive, but to thrive, a philosopher who DOES, true knowledge is knowledge in action, in practice, family, people are everything, the human spirit is strong, death to cars, urbanism, locality, know your neighbors, know yourself, learn from nature - let it teach you. Let life be living.
Finding my inspiration in people like this — Root Simple is about back to basics, DIY living, encompassing homegrown vegetables, chickens, herbs, hooch, bicycles, cultural alchemy, and common sense. We’re always learning, figuring stuff out, taking advantage of the enormous smarts of our friends and our on-line community, and trying to give some of that back in turn. Root Simple is a gathering place for everyone. Welcome.