This adventure is changing me. It is digging up a lot of selfishness that I previously thought I was above… selfishness that relates to my consumerist nature. I find pleasure in consuming and don’t take the time to produce, to create. And this part of me needs to die.
I’m reading a book on the early desert fathers, monks who practiced a eremitic lifestyle characterized by chastity…
Weekend Overview:
This weekend, I got engaged, which is neither simple nor cheap, but well worth it! And, no. She will not be joining me in the tent anytime in the near future… contrary to the rumor going around that TentWife.net will be launching soon.
I will resume regular scheduled posting on Wednesday – with a post on the uniqueness of being different!
Sometimes, while laying in the tent at night, I wonder about Native Americans and their nomadic culture… picking up their lives to follow the herd and the season’s. I think about how they must have hated Oklahoma, with it’s unpredictable weather and brutal summer storms…
It’s time to get organized at up in here… Because I have done a terrible job of posting regular content, it is time to set up a schedule of posts…
So. I dislike skunks, for reasons obvious to anyone’s olfactory organs… and yesterday I was 3 feet away from being pungently offensive to everyone at the office. Luckily, I have Star Trek like reflexes and I teleported myself 20 feet away in a matter of seconds…
So. Last night was one of those tough nights for me out at TentLife. I spent part of the weekend house sitting/horse sitting… and crashed back at the tent late Saturday night. Sunday came early and after church I got back to the tent with no plans, just a lot of nothing…
There were many factors that led me to move into a tent. I wanted simplicity. I wanted peace. I wanted solitude. Interestingly, I got all of those things plus a few added bonuses. Before I moved into the tent I wasn’t exactly breaking the bank but I wasn’t hurting to pay the bills either. Two, and sometimes three, jobs provided enough cash flow to rent an apartment in Valdosta, GA…the cheapest place to live on planet earth. So, the cheapness of tentlife was icing on the cake…
It has been two months of TentLife… I have not been real diligent in posting thoughts, experiences, and ruminations… I am actually ticked off at myself for not being more disciplined in blogging the experience. To be honest, not that I am out to deceive you, it has been incredibly hard living in a tent with no electricity, no running water, and no comforts of a home…
If I could describe my experience in tentlife it would definitely be: different (so different that it even overwhelmed my craziest expectations). Obviously going from a house with a TV, computer, electricity, running water, refrigeration to a giant ziplock baggie is very different, but that isn’t what made the experience so amazing, it was the people.
So. If you don’t live in OKC area, you wouldn’t know that we’ve had some storms. This little lightning/thunderstorm kept me awake until 3am… curled up in the fetal position at the bottom of my tent.
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