Wow, another week has gone by and I’ve got so much to share with you! Let’s see, where did I leave off … oh yea, hanging out with the hippies at Skoolie Swarm and starting to feel my way around nomadic life.
That was a truly enlightening experience, but perhaps not in the way you think.
For those of us of a certain advancing age, life was pretty different back when we were kids. Parents didn’t hover. You went out and played and at some predetermined time you came home (usually when the street lights came on or when your mother called out your name to the neighborhood). No one freaked out because a kid was out in the world without a visible parent. And that’s what the swarm was like.
Kids playing, adults playing, everyone just taking life as it came. No one was circling the wagons and avoiding strangers. In fact, it sometimes got to the point where I’d fake a look-away just so I wouldn’t have to say hello to yet another person. LOL!
The week taught me a lot about who I want to be. But this taking-er-easy lifestyle takes some serious getting used to. As does tolerance, being slow to anger, and all of those other slow living mantras. It’s a journey, and I’m glad I’m on it.
As I type these words (and yes, I write these things in sections as life unfolds) I’m in a biker camp somewhere in middle-western Florida. With this as my view:
Now I don’t want to make this political … you and everyone else is entitled to whatever beliefs and opinions settle in your brains … but I am not a fan of ole 45.
And yet everything and everyone around me is flying their flags in support of him. I even hear word that a “Trump Bus” is going to be parked right next to us tomorrow. Can’t wait! LOL!
I’m actually taking this as a combination test / learning opportunity. I spend so much time complaining about echo chambers that I think it’s important to experience life from all sides. So let’s see what tomorrow brings …
** TIME PASSES **
Well, tomorrow brought nothing but quiet. LOL! No, I didn’t go out much and explore. I did talk to folks as they came by and nothing horrible happened. But generally I took a few days to contemplate my navel and try to understand what has been happening to me.
In order:
1. I burned out and quit my job.
2. I traveled the world for seven months.
3. A death in the family brought me “home” and I built a bus.
4. I’m now living in said bus, still unemployed.
I should also mention that I quit YouTube in a fit of anger over the platform and its greedy capitalistic ways, only to discover that all other creative avenues also seem to be equally greedy capitalistic platforms. So I came back and made a video.
That video explains a lot about what’s happening, and a fair amount of what is probably going to happen.
Thanks for playing along as we figure this all out. More to come in all its forms: video, podcast, written articles, behind the scenes … whew, I might bneed a vacation from all this unemployment!
~ Rick