This Way of Life

It's hard to believe it's real, but it is. The documentarians started documenting the live of the Karenas about six months before they are to be evicted from their home that burns down just as they are packing to move. It's a slow movie, but no bullshit, just an alternative way of living that most of us have forgotten. One that would be difficult to pick up in America. It's simple, living off the land. That way is dying in New Zealand, and the Karenas are the last of it. Very hearty, very self-sufficient. You just want to know all the principles.

That said, I have friends who try one tenth of what they do here on Maui. Living in the forest, rarely poking their heads out. Outlaws of a sort, or is it living life as it used to be in America? Somewhere I recall reading the phrase "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". I wonder what happened to that idea?

This Way of Life