I'm A Withering Crow On A Deadline
A little over one month is a crazy deadline for writing a novella; I know this. I scheduled it that way for a good reason.
One day in my future, my crippling condition will take over me and make it very difficult for me to do anything at all anymore. I don't normally go around whining about it, so sometimes my decisions (which are based around this) might be misunderstood in my silence. Living in NYC has sped up the process of my physical debilitation. I believe that with a significant lifestyle change, I can heal myself and overcome most of this damage. I'm not going to sit back and wait to become immobile. Especially here. My quality of life is fading faster because I have been trying to comply with a mainstream lifestyle. That was stupid.
I lived my life to satisfy and support others around me more than for myself, and didn't pay attention to what that would do to my health over time. So. When I move to North Carolina, I'll be slowly weening myself off the way people normally survive alongside society, and I'll be living "wilder". Lots of organic food, fresh air, exercise, living spring water, and I'm going off the main electricity grid. (No worries.. there are other sources of power, and I'm not Amish.) In a nutshell, I'm building my own self-sufficient, healing Garden of Eden in the woods of the Appalachians.
To do this, I can't be having too many projects going on at once, and I'd like to have the book finished in time to start building my new space in the spring. By winter of this year, I want to be comfortable. It gets cold in the western hills. I'll be documenting the entire thing and sharing online, so I'm not disappearing. This is for healing myself, setting a better example for my nieces, and proving that a girl with serious physical difficulties, chronic pain and little money can live a beautiful, healthy life. And if she can do it, anyone else can, too.
So there you have it. That's the reason the book will be finished sometime in the beginning of March. Now, here's a self portrait I sketched. And have a wonderful, fruitful Tuesday.
I lived my life to satisfy and support others around me more than for myself, and didn't pay attention to what that would do to my health over time. So. When I move to North Carolina, I'll be slowly weening myself off the way people normally survive alongside society, and I'll be living "wilder". Lots of organic food, fresh air, exercise, living spring water, and I'm going off the main electricity grid. (No worries.. there are other sources of power, and I'm not Amish.) In a nutshell, I'm building my own self-sufficient, healing Garden of Eden in the woods of the Appalachians.
To do this, I can't be having too many projects going on at once, and I'd like to have the book finished in time to start building my new space in the spring. By winter of this year, I want to be comfortable. It gets cold in the western hills. I'll be documenting the entire thing and sharing online, so I'm not disappearing. This is for healing myself, setting a better example for my nieces, and proving that a girl with serious physical difficulties, chronic pain and little money can live a beautiful, healthy life. And if she can do it, anyone else can, too.
So there you have it. That's the reason the book will be finished sometime in the beginning of March. Now, here's a self portrait I sketched. And have a wonderful, fruitful Tuesday.
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