A bunch of idealistic friends got together, decided they wanted out of the madness of city life, and confident in their abilities to survive on almost nothing, & bought themselves a large block of land. Did they survive their idealism? Is it worth the challenges? Michelle Nijhuis writes about her experience. Worth a read for at least some folks.
Tag: Living
Living in an airport for 4 months [Article]
Ed Snowden’s spent four weeks in a Moscow airport, but Mohammed Al Bahish, a 26 year old Palestinian refugee has spent over 120 days in Kazakhstan’s Almaty International airport. He reckons he’s going slightly crazy.
He cannot enter Kazakhstan because he has no visa, but nor does he have a visa to enter any other country. Israel won’t allow him to travel to the Palestinian territories, and the UN accepts that with no living relatives in Iraq, it would be unsafe for him to return to the country of his birth.
Interview with a dead man [Article]
Helen Thomas writes about Graham who lives with one of the world’s most mysterious neurological conditions: he has a condition known as Cotard delusion. People with this extremely rare condition believe that they, or parts of their body don’t exist. A fascinating, & for those with it – insufferable, insight.
Nine years ago, Graham woke up and discovered he was dead. “It’s really hard to explain,” he says. “I just felt like my brain didn’t exist any more. I kept on telling the doctors that the tablets weren’t going to do me any good because I didn’t have a brain. I’d fried it in the bath.”