They say that all stories have a beginning, but this is about building a dream. Having a dream is a not a linear progression like most stories, they jump around and seem to defy logic; at least my dreams do! If I were to tell this story we would be jumping in to the swiftly flowing stream of my life decades from its head waters, but not its completion at the sea. So let’s go back to building a dream and let the past and past projects get filled in when and if needed. The flow of this dream stream changed drastically a few months ago. Kristine and I had dreamed of living more rurally, putting into practice the vision we held of be closer to living a self sustainable life style. We had the opportunity to sell the home we had built over the years and starting a new home, shop and farm debt free. Our dream that we had worked for, studied for, planned for and that seemed always in the future is here, now. To some I explain what we did as an early retirement, but that is just an easy way to break the socially awkward concept of starting a new project mid way in life. It is funny that so many dream and talk of leaving the same old life they have built, you know that deep rut we seem to build day after day doing what we have always done. However, the idea of abruptly leaving the rut to start something completely different strikes a fear deeper than death in most of our companions on this earth. So from the perspective of those who knew us before this looks like an act of hitting the control alt delete buttons to reboot in a different world. Now to us this is waking up from an amazing dream, a fresh new project and it is real. I feel that I have spent my whole life reading, learning, and practicing for a test. Maybe this is a test, but not that typical exam where you take it and it is over. This is an entrance exam that has opened a door to greater possibilities. This is going to sleep in your same old bed in your same old life, starting the dream, and then waking up in a different bed in a different land. It both excites and thrills you or you are scared so deeply you can not scream. Most days I have to pinch myself that this is real. However, there are times of frustration trying to do something that would have simple in the old shop, but feeling back in the stone age with tools and equipment in boxes and crates.
So here I am, starting again, starting with a fairly blank slate before me. Why write a blog? A very good question and a question that I do not have a complete answer to. There is a part of me that wants to share what and who I am. However, that is not a tidy, neat and well structured package. With that in mind I promise that this blog will reflect that lack of structure and linear design. My purpose in this venture is to share what I am doing, what I have learned and to seek others to add to this and to contribute what they know and do. More than that I want to encourage you and others to dream, to do and to step out of the old rut. Let’s start an anti rut revolution!
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