I’ve photographed so many choreographed moments of couples ‘love’ to make me never want to go to a wedding ever again. In fact I will probably have to be dragged by a team of bullocks to get me to one after my last one in mid April. As a photographer it’s all been work. And unending, on top of my existing full time work. I started with a dream to get somewhere. To ‘get ahead’. But all I’ve done is get behind in looking after me. We get so lost along the way. Sometimes there feels like no escape. And I feel guilty about wanting to escape.
Anyway if you want to find me after mid april I’ll be somewhere here* in one of these places of solitude and peace. Far from being owned by responsibility, far and the monotony, the shallowness and often pointlessness of modern living.
*Here is only in my head as I can’t afford to have a cabin. How is the irony of it all? Even after working my arse off all these years often having three jobs at a time I can’t actually afford to live simply in a modest hand built cabin. But I can live my life with a a mortgage resting heavily on my shoulders, plenty of personal debt and an unending supply of bills. Surely there is a better option than this.
All images from http://freecabinporn.com/
Here here!
In the same boat I’m afraid – just as well we have excellent imaginations to take us away from all of the ‘stuff’ that makes up life. That relentless pursuit of the next mortgage payment, the car rego, dentist bils etc.
And somedays ( and just recently there has been quite a few of those days) it just weighs a little heavier than others….
I want one
Sue said it!
Totally concur with you Ro, and with the other commenters.
I’m absolutely fed up with the abnormality of paying thousands of bucks a year simply for the privilege of having a roof over my head. So Kylie and I are hatching a plan to sell up, pay down our debts and convert a funky old woolshed near a high country village down south.
Head for the hills, mate!
Good on you Justin, we all have choices but for some strange reason we choose to make it hard for ourselves. Enjoy your new home in the hills!
beautiful, id love to stay at a place like that.
I feel your pain. Those cabins all look like a quiet slice of hard working heaven.
still want one
I’m reading ‘The One Straw Revolution’ by Masanobu Fukuoka at the moment. I think it will appeal to you and others here.
I would love to escape to a cabin… in the mountains and by a stream…
Free Cabin Porn. Love it. Love those cabins. My fantasy is to ‘get’ a tiny home in the woods with my family, and live a ‘Little House on the Praire’ lifestyle. However, ‘getting’ a cabin isn’t as straightforward as logging your own wood & building it a-la Pa Ingalls style, anymore. Plus it would be darn hard work. And dangerous.
I think I’m looking into my mirror when I read this.
According to this guy, there are better options than being up to your eyelids in debt and discontent with modern day schedules, ideals, etc. I’m thinking of trying this way of living myself with a more handcrafted touch to keep myself balanced,
and able to do and create the things I would like to do without all of the other hassle of “modern day living”. Best of luck to you and never stop doing what you love doing ~ you inspire us all!! :)
http://www.simplesolarhomesteading.com/
and all for a $7 plan
Cute cabins! Can i have one too? One just like this….http://pinterest.com/pin/163818505165084296/
ps is there a way i can comment without having to log into facebook/twitter/wordpress?
I hope you really are in a place just like this someday.
You’ll get there, we all will someday, right?! Ah, optimism!!
Your photos are amazing. I would love to learn some tips on how you capture them. camera? film? just curious and I really enjoy your blog.
perfect expression of the sentiments I feel on a regular basis :)
I am off to the bush to stay quietly by myself in a remote little cabin next week and I know it will be so hard to come back to the ridiculous rush that is my everyday… while I’m away I’ll be enjoying every minute and dreaming about ways to get myself to the quiet style of life I wish for.
So you are not alone!
dream, believe, receive x
I’m with Rohan, Sue, Francis, Bob, Justin, Koongara, etc, etc…. There must be a more fulfilling way. I know it’s out there, I can feel it in my bones. I hear it calling me…
Mate, thanks for the cabin link… Envy porn indeed.
You seem desenchanted this end of March…
Thank you for the cabins’link. The pictures are just beautiful.
Hope to find you in a better mood in April.
Yours truly,
Elena
(no mortage, no debts, no children, no husbands.
Paying a monthly rent of 504 euros for a small apartement in Paris, lucky me, with an outdated electric installation – one day my computer will explode – and a broken water heater …)
But reading your blog weekly makes my day !
Amazing. Totally jealous of course.
Enjoy your time :)
oh, RO!
you’re having a bit of shit time….oy…
only thing i can offer is that the cabin one builds in one’s own head can be the best place of solace…i’ve been learning meditation this year – something completely unlike me, mind you – and it’s made some of the crap you’re talking about go away. well, some of it. maybe an idea for you?
xxx
does anyone have an estimated build time and/or know the building permit requirements in Australia on one of these cabins?
I want to encourage you. My husband and I are empty nesters, he is disabled , but we are debt-free except for our home. Our plan is to move up to about 3500 ft in the mountain community near us, scale way down home size and pay cash for our home there and enjoy the beautiful simplicity of mountain living. For so many years we really did not have a decent plan for our money, but the culture and MasterCard did! We have since taken the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University course and now teach it in our church, seeing others become debt free also. Your life does not always have to include a house or car payment if you are willing to get serious about paying off debt and staying out of debt. I remember reading ALL of the Little House books to our girls; should have taken more of the basic principles to heart then. Just wanted to give you great hope for that peace you seek. May the Lord grant you His peace as He has done for us.
My dream! I really would love to live in a cabin like that
I hear you on this one. I feel like I get closer to releasing from the modern-day pressures, but then BAM – the chaotic, all-consuming, money driven world sucks me back in. And I’m not even a big consumer but it’s always just THERE. The money it takes to just have a roof, a internet connection, food, medical bills, electricty – it kind of traps you in its web. We are trying to do up an old farmhouse slowly and at our own pace, and grow some food, and hunt some food, and slow down, but always we hear the “when is your renovation going to be finished? When are you getting you new kitchen? Have you thought about getting a new car?” and on and on and on! Geez – just let us be!! I have found by surrounding myself with the right kind of people, I can more easily block out the buzzing noise, but it can be distracting.
My other big reminder: my small son. He suffers a terrible illness and is very disabled. But he is the happiest, most gentle and loving little spirit – he wants for nothing and gives nothing but love. When I am with him in our quiet moments, I really do realise that all the rest is just bullshit, and that here and now is really all that matters! And I don’t even have to take a posed photo of it and put it on Facebook for all to see ;)
PS – will translate the pflaumenkuchen recipe into english – promise!
These places just look so idyllic and tranquil. I’m pretty lucky that where I live and work is surrounded by trees so every morning I wake up to the sound of birds. In fact I can hear them and the rain falling as I type this. Still wouldn’t say no to a cabin in the woods (minus the horror film script)
Really. Well you are blessed. I’ve lived in a forest before, and that place has a dear place in my heart. I like the horror script….keeps me on edge!
Really. Well you are blessed. I’ve lived in a forest before, and that place has a dear place in my heart. I like the horror script….keeps me on edge!