My friend Kristi packed up her family and moved from San Francisco to Bozeman, MT for a year’s experiment in mountain living. I had the opportunity to contribute to her process along the way and in her latest blog post documenting her Western adventure, she discusses her investigation into what is enough, unpacking the scarcity that once ruled her life, and allowing a a life of abundance to shape it instead. Kristi writes:

‘I don’t have enough time,’ has practically been my mantra these past years of working and parenting and carpooling and cleaning and scheduling and on and on. Not enough love, not enough money, not enough stuff — you can really take this scarcity stuff and go anywhere with it.
My motivation for our Montana adventure has a lot to do with convincing myself that we have enough. Enough strength, enough stability, and enough resources to pull this off. Over my summer sabbatical, I’ve experienced having enough time — endless stretches of time — for what feels like the first time in my life. It has been delicious. And despite my original intentions, I’ve gotten very little done. No huge paintings, no baby albums for the girls, no big nothing. Instead, I’ve watched clouds, sniffed bark, rolled around in the grass, read ‘The Secret Garden’ to Stella in a hammock in our garden, and stopped to enjoy whatever, wherever. I feel so much more human. (emphasis mine)

To read more on her adventure, check out her inspiring blog, Make it Montana. What radical experiments in enoughness can you take on today? This week? This year?

 

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