THE FREEDOM WAY
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Another: George Livingston Baker. He had the further
handicap of no money and 64 years of age when he set out to
live the simple life in the Colorado Rockies above Denver.
Less than $100 to his name he owned, and he was ill
besides. But did he ever regret it? Not for a minute. At
the age of 75 he is still going strong, cooking his own
food, cutting his own wood, and making his adequate living
in the ways that fill every day with satisfaction and
adventure.
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One thing you will get out of the simple life is greater
satisfaction in living. In the city the majority of the
people are bored. "Let's get together soon," they tell one
another. "How about a movie tonight?" "What's there to do
around this joint, anyway?" "What'll we do now?" "I hate
Sundays - they bore me," - you hear these expressions on
every side.
But no one who moves away from all that and gets back to
the simple life is ever bored for a minute. C.W. Whitemore
discovered that years ago. Whipped out by life in
Philadelphia, "with axe, pick axe, and saw I came here (to
the Pitts Hill Road in the Berkshires) and decided to
build." He earned $1 a week as correspondent for a weekly
paper, lived on that practically, and a year later wrote:
"I am the wealthiest resident on Pitts Hill Road!" He never
had a bored minute, always found an entrancing panorama of
Nature, whatever the season, found treasure there he never
found in the city.
And health, too. Bob Davis, the roving correspondent who
looked in on everything interesting, discovered his
healthiest man on Caledesi Key, Florida - Henry Sherrer.
"It is difficult to believe that this amazing man is in his
seventy-eighth year; that his diet is bread, eggs, bananas,
and an occasional cereal; that six hours of sleep is enough
to refresh him," exclaimed Mr. Davis. "He reads without the
aid of glasses and can hear a mile away the cooing of a
turtle dove.
"The chest of him is like a cask, his arms are as iron and
the muscles between his shoulder blades ripple when he
strides. The clasp of his hand is viselike, and his voice
rich with kindly intonations."
Maybe you have thought often - who among us hasn't? - of
leading such a life. Maybe you wondered, living where you
do in a large city or a small town that seems to offer no
opportunity to break civilization's shackles, how, in the
first place, you could do it, and where, in the second.
If that has been your problem, you can take heart from this
fact - that there are smart men and women leading the
simple life everywhere in the world; yes, right on the
outskirts of the largest cities. You don't have to traipse
off to Mexico or the Andes or Morocco, cut all ties with
the phases of your life you like, in order to lead the
simple life. All you have to do is make a minor change-in
the way that will be discribed in the next Section.
SECTION II
WHERE YOU CAN LEAD THE SIMPLE LIFE
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