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The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. Guy can write. Once his weekly obligation ends, he could make it work with a source of income as a w

by hyp0 12y ago

The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. Guy can write. Once his weekly obligation ends, he could make it work with a source of income as a writer, using a smartphone, bluetooth keyboard, solar panel, and get near a cell phone tower. Without rent and utils, he needs much less money than usual. Order groceries etc online, so he can remain isolated (and of course hunt/fish). Or write a book, invest, live on interest in the woods. He wouldn't really like having to write, but he admires good writing, and if it would grant contentment... See also, coding in the woods http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programming.php* http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...

thaumaturgy 12y ago
A person writes because they have something to say. He does not believe he has anything to say.
jkaunisv1 12y ago
That couplet hammered me in the heart. It was the best part of the article.
pp19dd 12y ago
Always awesome to see an outlier, and one removed from our busy lives. I can't help but romanticize living far from others (though, in a cabin- for some good eyecandy, see the 'cabin porn' tumblr.) But, having read this a second time, the part that I definitely didn't appreciate is the burglaries. There are plenty of people who homestead (low-cost, off the grid) just fine without instilling fear into their communities (IMO, despite being a hermit, he did have a community by definition of pillaging them to survive.) Many people escape the busy life and it works for them. Plenty of them blog about it. Martha from Canada: "I fondly remember an old friend saying that he would never live in a place that had a traffic report." Her latest blog posts are a selection process for which chickens get put on the chopping block. Others write about getting new wood stoves, or photographing piles of wood they chopped for the winter. No one blogs about burglarizing cabins.

by hyp0 12y ago

thaumaturgy 12y ago

A person writes because they have something to say. He does not believe he has anything to say.

jkaunisv1 12y ago

That couplet hammered me in the heart. It was the best part of the article.

pp19dd 12y ago

Always awesome to see an outlier, and one removed from our busy lives. I can't help but romanticize living far from others (though, in a cabin- for some good eyecandy, see the 'cabin porn' tumblr.) But, having read this a second time, the part that I definitely didn't appreciate is the burglaries. There are plenty of people who homestead (low-cost, off the grid) just fine without instilling fear into their communities (IMO, despite being a hermit, he did have a community by definition of pillaging them to survive.) Many people escape the busy life and it works for them. Plenty of them blog about it. Martha from Canada: "I fondly remember an old friend saying that he would never live in a place that had a traffic report." Her latest blog posts are a selection process for which chickens get put on the chopping block. Others write about getting new wood stoves, or photographing piles of wood they chopped for the winter. No one blogs about burglarizing cabins.