Where I lived, What I live for

Where I lived, What I Lived for

Peter Joelson

12/9/08

As a man of nature, you live a life among trees, water, and animals. With your lifestyle, what do you do with your daily life? Obviously self-reflection is one of the inevitable outcomes, which you chose to express by writing books. But apart from that, what is it that you actually do? Living on the outskirts of town, you have no immediate access to any luxuries. Thus your only option of work would be to self-provide. Something that is not made clear in your writings is what happens when you are satisfied with your work? Do you sit back and admire your achievement for days, until you must go back to diligent work? Or, do feel that there is never anything that can be fully completed, and working is your life? Apart from that, you mention that the closest you came to having a “possession” was when you almost bought that house in Hollowell. If this is true, then mentioning the fact that you only have 10 cents is moot; what is the point in possessing money when you don’t buy any possession with that money? If that farm was the closest thing to a possession, did you never buy anything in town? Or do you define possession a different way then I do?