Last night’s sunset was cancelled due to fog. Even the gulls were grounded. Of course I had thoughts on the Michigan mist. I still remember vividly leaving home after high school. Heading off to college. A college I had never visited. Twelve trips to various schools had left me unconvinced. I chose a college based…
Category: Freedom; the escape
Freedom: How we sold our house, gave away our possessions, quit job and moved to the beach in Michigan
May 21st: Sahlo Folina
Really don’t mind if you sit this one out My word’s but a whisper your deafness a shout – Ian Anderson The utterly simplified history of human work and idleness: In the beginning, humans worked to survive. Like any animals. Smart animals… hunters, gatherers, farmers. Then came civilization slavery, in one form or another. Some lucky…
May 16th: Musings on life at the beach today
Met a guy in our complex yesterday. One month ago, he did the same thing as we did a year ago. Left his job behind, sold his house, simplified… never going to buy a house again. As we talked I was pleasantly surprised to hear someone whose views and actions were so close to mine….
May 1st: One year anniversary
My two hundred day countdown ended last year on May 1st, 2018. So here we are, one full year in. The excitement, satisfaction and happiness are the same as a year ago. But in the last year, I have learned so much. And had the time to read, think, live, write. Not since college have…
April 23rd: Freedom; the escape… and perspective
I have a whole category, “Freedom; the escape”. Blog entries on how I was able to quit my job, sell the house, and move to our simple life, living free on the beach of our choice. Melodramatic? Well, to me intensely real. I’m passionately blissful now, and have been for a year. But how much…
April 8th: My brother’s birthday
Today is my brother’s birthday. He died eight years ago at the age of 65. The healthiest, most active person I knew. Tennis several times a week, always going strong, but with a gentle relaxed style. Cancer took him out of the blue, and quickly. He was a significant part of my motivation to quit…
April 5th: This Side of Paradise
Fifty two years ago, the Star Trek episode “This Side of Paradise” aired. The Enterprise was sent to a planet where an agricultural and research colony had been established several years earlier. They expected to find the entire colony wiped out from exposure to deadly radiation. Instead, the colonists were alive and happy… very, very…
March 5th: Addicted to speed
I remember my mother on the phone, sadly recounting how two young women I had attended high school with had suddenly died. “Isn’t it strange, what are the odds?” she said. I replied, a bit callously, “Quite good actually. Speed kills.” Sadly, back then so many people were oblivious to speed (methamphetamine). My mother was a…
February 9th: “I don’t like the beach”
My wife said, “Would you please get a haircut, you’re embarrassing me?” – as we walked into our favorite brewhouse. One of the great things about not working for someone is haircuts and shaving are optional. In 2018, I cut my hair only three times for the entire year. After my last haircut in November,…
February 5th: Time wasted, time invested
Men, they build towers to their passing yes, to their fame everlasting Here he comes chopping and reaping, hear him laugh at their cheating And time waits for no man, and it won’t wait for me Yes, time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for me -Keith Richards / Mick Jagger Beach life…