Life has changed again...When I wrote my last blog post called Everything Has Changed, I had no idea what was around the corner. At the time, we’d just moved away from our sleepy Tongan island and returned to fast paced Australia to try out a whole new way of life. We’d bought a bus house to live in, so we could keep our nomad spirit alive and wake up in a new place every few days. We’d gone back to school. And we were preparing to start a new business. Now less than two months later, our tiny home on wheels is parked indefinitely, all non-essential travel in Australia is banned, and we've rented a studio apartment under a friend's house. School has been cancelled. And our new business collapsed just moments after it launched out of the starting gate with boundless, … [Read more...] about How Three Years On An Island Prepared Me For Life After A Pandemic
Minimalism
Everything Has Changed: New Home, New Life
Life after the islandImagine you spend three years living in a parallel universe, on an 18 hectare tropical island with about 25 people. There are no roads. No vehicles. No TVs. The internet only works well when the wind is blowing in the right direction, so you spend more time talking to the people who are around you than the ones who are not. In this magical place, you are never exposed to advertising. So you’re never being told you’ll be prettier, healthier, happier, richer and more successful if you just use this miracle product you can buy for $49.95. Even if you can’t afford it — because while you were tucked away on that island the world invented some thing called “After Pay.” It’s a place where your power runs on sunshine so you do, too. Where you wake with the birds … [Read more...] about Everything Has Changed: New Home, New Life