40. The View From Here: Love, Partnership and Grief - Catching Up with Sam Sycamore
We changed our names, quit our jobs, and moved to a farm owned by friends, in a new town, in a new state. Then our dog died in a tragic accident. Then my (life) partner left me while we were in the middle of starting a farm business together. We had spend the past four years of our lives working toward this one goal of living self-sufficiently, closer to the land, and we had finally arrived. So why did she leave? That’s a question I will be asking myself for a long time to come. In this unusual episode of the Good Life Revival Podcast, I take some time to explain what has transpired in my tumultuous personal life in 2018. I share this, warts and all, because I want to make it clear that I’m no guru or master teacher with all the answers — I’m just a guy, someone just like you, trying his best to figure this stuff out as I go. I’m still searching for “the good life,” too, and I suspect I always will be. Stick around to the end of the episode where I share a song I wrote last week, called “The How’m I Gonna Keep My Head Above Water Blues.” If you dig it, you can download it (and all of my other original music) by becoming a supporter over on Patreon.
