The Present is a Gift: A Month? That's It?

Sometimes it's tough for me to believe I've only been away from home for just a little over a month. With all I've seen and experienced recently, I feel like I'm a world away at times. Even more mind-blowing to me is that it's only been a little over 2 months since I left my "corporate" work life behind to attempt something new. Excuse me while I wax nostalgic...

Has it been worth it? Shit yea. It's been just what I needed. I'm writing music again. I'm meeting new people seemingly every day. I'm learning (and all of that seemingly useless calculus and geometry I learned years ago has suddenly come in very handy). I still don't know what's going to happen in 3 1/2 weeks when this thing ends, but I already feel that I have a ton of options right in front of me, and that's a really good feeling.

Anyway, some more pics. Some of these are Instagram duplicates for those of you who don't have that or Facebook.

A friend of ours has a band. They were on tour and ended up all the way out here! Small world, right?

We worked on a yurt for a couple days last week, which was a very inspiring experience. It began with a group sitting in a circle brainstorming, and then all of a sudden we had walls and roof rafters. It wasn't ALL that simple, but the point is, it just sort of happened out of an organic human experience. Great stuff.

A frequent swimming spot.

I've never eaten so many blackberries in my life. These things are EVERYWHERE. And they're delicious.

Front roof rafters are in place, as well as a cob bond beam on top of our stone stem wall. Surprisingly, cob is pretty sturdy stuff for being made of clay, sand and straw. Just keep it dry...