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Oh your grandmothers house sounds so ideal and they come from such an era of greater simplicity. I wish I could have gone to my grandmothers house more often. I need the quiet, the wisdom, the recipes, the stillness. My grandmother lived near the ocean here in Australia, and I do remember feeling similar feelings on visiting her but we just never went often. I remember walking barefoot to the sea from her house. I remember picking blackberries from the trees across the street.
I guess the ideal simple life i’m hoping for I already live somewhat. But it would mean living near the ocean, as I find the ocean just carries my cares away. I do go to the ocean every weekend, but I’d like to live far away on the coast by the ocean. It’s very ancestral for me, most of my ancestors lived close to the sea.
I’d like to have a cabin in the hinterlands with my beloved. I’d love to earn my living as an artist/painter and I do paint/ create art very often. It’s something I’m always working toward. I just want to make enough to live off. I’d like to rise in the morning with fresh mint tea in a handmade pottery mug, read some poetry on the verandah and watch the sun 🌞 come up, stretch/ dance and begin my day by painting. Putting some folk music on. Painting is something I also find very slow and healing. I’d like to write poetry too, and fairy tales. I just want a simple and creative life. The road less travelled. Even living in a gypsy wagon in the rainforest here in Australia would make me happy.
Living in Australia you get to live close to the rhythms of nature which is slower paced. I’d definitely like to grow my own vegetables and hand-sew my own clothing very much too. I loathe fast fashion and mass production. I guess I’m an old soul that doesn’t really like how life went to since the industrial revolution where everyone flocked to town, cities, factories. I think we were better off in the clean country air. That most people lived rurally before 1750 really surprises me. Only two percent of Americans live on farms or ranches today, but in 1790 ninety percent of the population did. Amazing. I think it’s deeply within us to live rural.
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