The Search Continues

In August, Paul and I both took some work in California. I went to Northern California in quartz valley near the Marble Mountain Wilderness. It was beautiful land and I was working for a wonderful woman and her children. I enjoyed my relationship with them and the time and space I had to myself. I spent a lot of time in the garden and up at the top of the hillside doing Yoga to the rising sun. I found an area where a bear nested and tracked many dear through the landscape. It was a good chance to be by myself and explore what i wanted to create for myself.

In the meantime, Paul went to Balinas California and stayed with a mutual friend to do some work. We had met our friend in Pangaia. He is the person who taught Paul about the Primal Diet. This was a great opportunity for Paul to delve into the diet, make some funds for himself and explore what he wanted to create for himself. Paul gained 8 pounds while he was there. He loved putting on the weight.

After three weeks apart, we decided that what we wanted to do was be together and create a new vision for ourselves. Paul came and joined me in Northern California.

I finished up my work with the family and we moved to Ashland Oregon to explore the opportunities there. We made friends with a group of folks who had created a raw milk cooperative. They were a great bunch of folks. We moved in with one of them, Roy, while we explored our options.

Roy is a raw foodist as well. While he does not follow a particular diet, we found that our diets were quite similar in important ways. We enjoyed the opportunity to have meals together, play games and go to the warm ponds on occasion.

I applied for a job that I thought might be interesting while we were in Ashland. We thought we might benefit from settling down for the winter and looked for a place of our own to rent. We found that much of Ashland has the noise pollution of I 5 and felt very modern for our tastes. We envisioned what it would be like for us to follow through with these plans and found them lacking.

During our search, I stumbled upon information that a community was forming around the vision put forth in the books The Ringing Cedars of Russia. I was so excited!! This gave me hope!!!