So I am here on Day #3 in a little town on the coast of Maine where I am shedding layers of my old self to become more of who I want to be…am meant to be. So far, things have been going really well.

A little background…I left the corporate world this past January unexpectedly (due to our GREAT economy) and decided not to go back! I have been studying holistic health counseling in New York City at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and have begun to settle into the fact that I am on this earth to spread a message of how humans can live in sync with the earth. It’s the foods we put into our bodies, the products we take from the earth and the reverence we hold for all things living…once we can find harmony within all of these we can find peace within ourselves. I am looking for this myself and want to share with everyone the process of letting go of our mechanistic world in favor for a world without illusions.

OK, back to Maine…so with this blog, I will chronicle the experience of a gal (myself) who has been living the suburban/city life for TOO LONG and is delving into the simple life head first. Now, I will have things like electricity and running water but I will not have TV and since my job will be to buy local produce and foods, I will be eating almost all local foods. I hope you all enjoy and learn something too. My first three days have been filled with learning about the local farms and their order and delivery times and dates, organic gardening on Islesford (aka Little Cranberry Island, where while I was weeding the author and illustrator Ashley Bryan was leading a group of school children on a nature walk reciting Langston Hughes…where am I? A dream!), and meeting lots of new people who are all incredibly kind and incredibly real…an authenticity one hardly ever encounters in the cities I have dwelled within these past years. Things are looking good! Until next time…