My husband and I are lucky enough to have a cabin in the
mountains. With the holidays approaching, it felt like the perfect time
to write about how important a cabin can be and what it can teach
you. Once you arrive in the mountains to our cabin, the adjustment is
easy and natural. I know for me, I can feel myself morph to a place, where in my mind, I know I can do with a lot less. I can chop, rake,
labor, cook and adjust to life that seems very simple. Our cabin doesn't have a heat source other than a pellet stove. This time of year, when it's so cold we have a process that we do together to
get the old girl going! Turn on the water at the pump house, open everything up, fire up the stove and if we did it correctly when we left the last
time, all will be good.
I was inspired by the words of Henry David Thoreau as
he wrote about his sojourn to Walden Pond, the cabin where he lived for over
two years starting in 1854. The experience he found to be fundamental to his
soul and the awakening of his capabilities to live a different life.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live
deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not
learn what it had to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I had
not lived."
Henry David Thoreau
Cabins have really changed and there are some impressively
creative people designing structures that you won’t believe but I bet most of the
goals are the same for all of their clients. A place to rest, congregate,
rejuvenate and reflect on life, while, tasting of the bounty! Where ever you
are for Thanksgiving, may it be any or all of the aforementioned.
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