One footnote: if you’re living on the edge, try to stay healthy! - ^z
MarkZimmermann. 2008-12-06 11:28 UTC.
Heh; quite right, quite right.
Alexis recently opted out of the conventional economy. (That is to say, she quit her job — as a post-doctoral biomimetics researcher at the University of Canterbury.)
And I’ve been out of “conventionality” for roughly a year.
And we’ve both found that, since that herculean down-shift into a simpler life, our health has not only retained its youthful vigor — but actually improved!
A few salient factors, we think:
Was it the taxing nature of white-collar, Caucausian-collaring occupations that encouraged us to consume, bite, and swallow as we did, and send our money’s storehouse into the gullet of the national GDP?
We can only wonder — and be thankful we no longer do.
And, while Alexis and I have opted out of the conventional economy, we aren’t exactly living on the edge. We’re not living in a van down by the river — though I can’t discount that future possibility — and we’re not living, by the riven rail-road tracks, in an urban ghetto — though I can’t discount that future possibility, either.
In fact, we feel we live in a beautiful, bountifully freedom-fulfilling community — though, by our own admission, largely by luck and life’s laughter.
Here’s a photo gallery of the beach-side gales and hale, tree-laden hillocks of that community, sea-locked in Diamond Harbour, Banks Peninsula, the South Island, New Zealand:
Humbly yours — and thanks, as ever, for the witty spree of comments,
leycec. 2008-12-07 01:02 UTC.