5th anniversary ...

Today appears to be the 5th anniversary of the freedom experiment, though not of Wear & Dao the blog ... Wear & Dao the book still gestating though feeling like a winter project, as long as itchy feet and vitamin D loving skin allow ... rather dismal days since sunny Santander. .. still seasonal affective disorder fortunately not prevalent here, though several friends report it ... leading to question of whether mind drives the chemistry or vice versa ... or both together ...

Partisan party politics fills the media, entrenched opinions leading to a question of whether evidence supporting contrary views is ever considered ... long standing distaste for gross inequality pulls to the left, though even the Fabian Corbyn is not proposing higher level solutions of a transformation of consciousness to address planetary problems and individual mental health problems where psychopaths are rewarded for "wealth creation", "risk taking", and so on ... anyway, five year voting cycles make proposals of degrowth political suicide ... and perhaps continuing casino capitalism, where hedge fund folks make huge bets on market movements, movements themselves not separate from the bets or the gamblers, will crash the financial system again soon, since behaviours have hardly changed since the last time ...

Hard to say when or if freedom started and finished ... certainly the pilgrim walks have continued long after a house appeared ... anyway, it was a choice to buy it and the window of freedom from anything which didn't fit in the rucksack was a wonderful two years or so, an embodiment of the idea that less is more ... and the experience of liberation from stuff, not to mention self, means it may easily enough be done again ...