I am looking for a partner, a friend and possibly more to start a new life together. Someone with a coincident aspiration of living in a small and sustainable personal environment, as self sufficiently as possible while remaining inter-connected and part of the modern world. For me, sustainability means a warm climate where heating my home is not a significant issue and where outdoor activities, for survival and recreation are more accessible and pleasurable than in the UK. My ideal climate to live is where temperatures usually range between 15-25 degrees. The kind of climate that can be found in the island of La Palma in the Canaries, where it can be a little colder for a short winter and significantly hotter for the summer months.
I''m ready willing and able to make the transitions into this new life of which I dream and which I know can be a reality. I also know that I do not want to plough my own furrow, be an isolated hermit or tag myself onto to an existing intentional community. I want to do this with a significant other. I''m not closed to living in a community of more people but I would like to start out with someone I am going to be in close partnership with for the long term.
And so if you''re out their in natural friend land, we will have similar values and compatible personalities and hopefully some chemistry. Marketing myself with a list of traits, interests and experiences seems rather cynical and formulaic and almost impossible to convey not only the individual but how two individuals may get along or not! I''d rather start this adventure with one aim; the ecology of the circumstances in which we would both wish to live, to nurture and grow. Having said that, I would also say there are 4 qualities that seem vital to any shared endeavour; the nature and extent that we value and operate Compassion Acceptance Respect & Empathy will probably make or break the possibilities regardless of how well matched we might otherwise seem to be or how much we fancy each other from near or far!
On a practical level I am free to go and do this and have a permanent independent income that will travel but no capital to invest in a property, which means renting somewhere, at least to start. I''m not going to pretend I can still move the mountains that I could 25 years ago but there are other ways of doing things I have learnt and in many ways I''m fitter than I was 25 years ago! I firmly believe that with two individuals in supportive partnership more than double can be achieved sometimes with less than half the effort. All the rest is waiting to be discovered with someone who may be looking for the same way of living and is free to come and find it and with the approximately equal desire and resources to sustain it. I hope you are out there, somewhere, anywhere... ...
