Living off the grid. I want to re-experience what I experienced in Connecticut a couple of weeks ago, the simplicity, the quiet, the calmness.
That is something I can do any time. All I have to do is shut off the electricity and I’m there. I should talk the family into that and do it — shut off everything except the freezer, and it’s quiet. And besides the experience of the moment, it’s good practice, so when the electricity goes out for the last time, it won’t come as such a shock.
I would also like to buy a second property, an intentionally off-the-grid property. I imagine blissfully quiet weekends there, with no noise except a passing airplane now and then. I’m not so sure that such places exist in Wisconsin…but they worse my hearing gets, the more likely it is I’ll find one. But what chance of getting the other half to agree to that?
I want that last power outage to happen now, tonight. I want this crazy, techno-culture to end. I hate it and want it to be over.
Ending and Beginning 