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Neela 🌶️'s avatar

Hi Sophie & Luke

I missed your stories Sophie :)

Luke mentions something very important "If the electricity went out, the supermarkets shut their doors, or the taps stopped giving me water, I would be in trouble very quickly."

Most of us live in this strange reality where we're simultaneously more comfortable and more vulnerable than any humans in history.

We trade stories on smartphones but have forgotten how to tell them around fires.

We can order anything with a click but can't grow our own food.

We're connected to thousands online but disconnected from the land beneath our feet.

The most powerful part isn't that Luke and his family moved to the woods.

It's that they're rediscovering something our great-grandparents took for granted:

Real security isn't about having more.

It's about needing less.

Thank you so much for sharing :)

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Adrienne's avatar

So inspiring! I'm currently sitting in a coffee shop enjoying my latte reminiscing about the trials of our 2-week camping trip where I got a taste of this lifestyle and fell in love with nature. I couldn't agree more with every principle of off grid living, especially about community and having our elders be the storytellers to pass on their wisdom. Still so very attached to warmth and luxuries. Also, haven't successfully let go of my book collection and leisure time to go all in....yet.

I'm so grateful to have stumbled upon Luke Miller's Substack. His work has been life changing for me as a writer and hopefully one day as an off gridder.

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