So. I’m standing there on a narrow wood platform about 4 feet off the ground, eyeing the rope hanging in front of me, and trying to muster my courage to jump out there, grab the rope with my hands and swing from it. Looked easy enough when the other scout students were doing it, gracefully…
Author: hermistress
Running Out Of Time
My reasons for running are uncertain even to myself. I just know that it gives me a certain feeling that is freeing and for a moment, i feel as though I can connect with the skies. I run in the disappearing pink light of twilight, just as the neighbor’s dinner tables are being set and…
In Hermit Shoes…
The backroads home are pitch black. Its just me, driving home half an hour after the sun officially tucked in, with only a stain of pink left in the sky, paused and then erased into black. There is only the occasional set of red taillights that I encounter as I drive, sailing over the curvy…
Sustainability 101: How To Be Your Own Hermit
hey everyone! just wanted to share this blog post that i found to be worth sharing. Its a state of mind. Check it out… Living a self-sustainable lifestyle does not mean you have to have 139,674, 987 acres somewhere in the middle of nowhere! Off-grid, self-sustainable living can happen no matter where we are. In…
Fall Is A Big Jar of Leche Quemada.
Today my car thermometer read only 91 degrees. Hence the sweater I was looking for this morning. Fall is on its way here in South Central Texas. We know this because of the arrival of large cardboard flats of pumpkins at every store in town, and a Mt. Everest of dog hair as my seven dogs collectively…