Simpler..the idea....

10/3/2013

The idea wasn't about self sufficiency, but we generate some of our own electricity, and grow some of our own fuel!

Meanwhile I am thinking about what I was after in this simpler life. Being real is the thought which keeps coming to mind and part of that was not being as physically sheltered as I was living in the city (we moved from the lovely city of York). Experiencing the land, the sea, and the wind and the weather, and all the subtleties of the changing seasons - all at first hand, seemed then, and still seem, important to me. It is hard to believe it was twelve years ago....

I feel more fully alive in this place.

Do you feel more fully alive in some places more than others?

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chris link

10/3/2013 07:18:31 pm

My place is Arran - but not just any part of the island: I feel most alive in the heart of the granite north, in Glen Sannox or North Glen Sannox especially, and most vibrantly so on a hill - Cir Mhor, perhaps, or North Goatfell (much less frequented than the main summit) - with the other hills circling me with their stone ridges.

Freda

11/3/2013 07:43:33 am

How interesting that you, and Cath, have both mentioned ancient places - the bare hard hills and mountains around here have great appeal for me..

cath

11/3/2013 05:50:27 am

It is not so much place as activity I am engaged in which makes me feel more alive. Walking mostly does it for me.
I live at the very 'edge' of 's-Hertogenbosch, one of the older cities in The Netherlands, situated in the south of the country.
This said there are places which will be forever etched in my memory: the sanddune ancient landscape, sculptered by the wind and forever changing, in a national park half an hour away from here, being one of them.

Freda

11/3/2013 08:00:46 am

I walk when I have a decision to make....I've been looking at Hertogenbosch online - Duke's forest - we are in Argyll forest (and my name means forest apple!) It is nice to know where you are.

Simpler..the idea....

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