Finding Our Walden: Update

We thought this might be our own cabin in the woods. It wasn't.

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavours to live the life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” 

― Henry David Thoreau

Our retreat to a peaceful cabin in the woods has been put off a while longer. Again.

I reported earlier that we were looking at a property that we thought might be our Walden. As it turned out, it was not for us.

Yes, it looked like our perfect situation, and when I visited it, it felt like a few pages straight out of Henry David Thoreau's journal.

But, it did have some issues we saw as insurmountable.

If Linda were not disabled, we might have been able to make a go of it. And I'm getting older and fogeyer all the time, so we need to be realistic about that, too.

While we could afford to purchase the property we were looking at, we calculated that we would not have enough money left over to make it suitable to meet our special needs.

It was a hard realization, and disappointing, but we had to let the property we were looking at go.

Now that Pandemic Realestate Hysteria Syndrome has subsided somewhat, prices are beginning to drop, and that can only be a good thing for us.

We are sure our own personal Walden is out there, and in this new year we will continue the search to fulfill our dream. 

In the meantime, one does not need an isolated tiny cabin in the woods to live the ideals of Walden, as nice as that would be.

It is possible to experience the Thoreauian life anywhere. 

Wherever we live, nature, simplicity, and living an authentic, deliberate life is what is most important.