Ashtree
Member
Hey there,
My name is Ashley, I'm new to this forum (as you probably guessed by the fact that I'm introducing myself), and I'm going to try to explain who I am and where I'm at right now as best I can.
I'm in a pretty interesting space for myself right now. I'm just finishing being a Summer Camp Counselor on a farm and about to start traveling and living with a backpack and a tent. Before the residential Summer Camp Counselor position, I traveled and lived out of a very small backpack for 7 months through India, Malaysia, and Hong Kong doing work trades, but this'll be my first time with a tent.
After this Summer camp is over, I'm flying straight to a silent meditation retreat in California with a meditation teacher I adore. Then, besides traveling about a little with my twin, the only plan I really have is to try to attend the festival Faerieworlds. Otherwise, I've been feeling a call to start limiting my engagement with money and continue bartering and gifting. I'm also wanting to do that by starting hitchhiking and squatting/camping. I'm also super happy to continue doing work exchanges and potentially living in intentional communities sometimes. Eventually I see myself finding or helping birth an intentional community to live in for a longer period of time but I won't know when the time will come until it gets here. I'm also wanting to try incorporating dumpster diving into my life because it's so ridiculous that we waste food the way we do in this wacky weird system we humans have created. On the other hand, I really love growing food and eating food right from the garden but that'll happen more when I settle down for a bit.
I want to start my hitchiking journey after the meditation retreat by hitching from Sacramento to Portland. Another reason I'm wanting to hitch is to hopefully really connect with some people along the way. Which is the reason I want to limit my engagement with money -- so I can connect with people and the earth more (can explain more on this if clarification is wanted).
Also, just a little additional piece of information, I'm still traveling with a smart phone, but I'm wanting to switch to using a flip phone (maybe a slidey texty phone) and maybe a labtop (for emails and Skype with international friends). I have yet to acquire a labtop. I feel like I need it to figure out travel stuff, but I also feel like I really don't and I can always use libraries and internet cafes. I also just think it'd be convenient to have one, and why not, I could always pass it along later if I felt like it. It'd be a little big of a leap for me right now to just ditch the phone without a labtop, but I've taken a lot of big leaps with good rewards before.
I feel like I'm about to enter a new chapter of my experience, and I'm really excited to learn more about where my heart wants to take me on this life trip and what that new chapter will entail!
Of course there's way way more about me and my experience, but there's always so much more about us than we can put on an introduction, and I'd love to get to know you all more!
I really want to continue learning about the things I'm passionate about and interested in such as mycology, herbalism, permaculture, wilderness living skills, natural building, and communal living (village like, off-grid, off- capitalism, gift-economy, "self-sustainable"). I'm also really happy to continue sharing energy healing along the way. Also I think I want to get into stilt walking.
I feel like I have many options but no plans, because each right thing for sure flows into my life in the right timing. I'm not really trying to build much at the moment. I'm more in a state of enjoying each experience and living and I hope I keep that with me and deepen that as my goals and direction solidifies. For now I may need a little while without that!
If you read all this, thanks!! This is where I'm at right now! Subject to change very soon!
Cheers and happy hugs and smiles to you,
Ashley
My name is Ashley, I'm new to this forum (as you probably guessed by the fact that I'm introducing myself), and I'm going to try to explain who I am and where I'm at right now as best I can.
I'm in a pretty interesting space for myself right now. I'm just finishing being a Summer Camp Counselor on a farm and about to start traveling and living with a backpack and a tent. Before the residential Summer Camp Counselor position, I traveled and lived out of a very small backpack for 7 months through India, Malaysia, and Hong Kong doing work trades, but this'll be my first time with a tent.
After this Summer camp is over, I'm flying straight to a silent meditation retreat in California with a meditation teacher I adore. Then, besides traveling about a little with my twin, the only plan I really have is to try to attend the festival Faerieworlds. Otherwise, I've been feeling a call to start limiting my engagement with money and continue bartering and gifting. I'm also wanting to do that by starting hitchhiking and squatting/camping. I'm also super happy to continue doing work exchanges and potentially living in intentional communities sometimes. Eventually I see myself finding or helping birth an intentional community to live in for a longer period of time but I won't know when the time will come until it gets here. I'm also wanting to try incorporating dumpster diving into my life because it's so ridiculous that we waste food the way we do in this wacky weird system we humans have created. On the other hand, I really love growing food and eating food right from the garden but that'll happen more when I settle down for a bit.
I want to start my hitchiking journey after the meditation retreat by hitching from Sacramento to Portland. Another reason I'm wanting to hitch is to hopefully really connect with some people along the way. Which is the reason I want to limit my engagement with money -- so I can connect with people and the earth more (can explain more on this if clarification is wanted).
Also, just a little additional piece of information, I'm still traveling with a smart phone, but I'm wanting to switch to using a flip phone (maybe a slidey texty phone) and maybe a labtop (for emails and Skype with international friends). I have yet to acquire a labtop. I feel like I need it to figure out travel stuff, but I also feel like I really don't and I can always use libraries and internet cafes. I also just think it'd be convenient to have one, and why not, I could always pass it along later if I felt like it. It'd be a little big of a leap for me right now to just ditch the phone without a labtop, but I've taken a lot of big leaps with good rewards before.
I feel like I'm about to enter a new chapter of my experience, and I'm really excited to learn more about where my heart wants to take me on this life trip and what that new chapter will entail!
Of course there's way way more about me and my experience, but there's always so much more about us than we can put on an introduction, and I'd love to get to know you all more!
I really want to continue learning about the things I'm passionate about and interested in such as mycology, herbalism, permaculture, wilderness living skills, natural building, and communal living (village like, off-grid, off- capitalism, gift-economy, "self-sustainable"). I'm also really happy to continue sharing energy healing along the way. Also I think I want to get into stilt walking.
I feel like I have many options but no plans, because each right thing for sure flows into my life in the right timing. I'm not really trying to build much at the moment. I'm more in a state of enjoying each experience and living and I hope I keep that with me and deepen that as my goals and direction solidifies. For now I may need a little while without that!
If you read all this, thanks!! This is where I'm at right now! Subject to change very soon!
Cheers and happy hugs and smiles to you,
Ashley