LoveLiveGrow is my little home for musings on my life at The Wallow, my homestead near Knoxville, TN.

Who am I?

Let’s start with me! First, we’ll break out the label-maker. I’m 32 years old, white, cisgendered, able-bodied, polyamorous,  an atheist, tattooed, dreadlocked, a hippie and a burner,  and a flaming liberal with anarcho-primitivist leanings.

Topics

What are you going to read here? The truth is, it’s a bit of everything. There are some recurring themes, though, which you can navigate to through the menu bar at the top of each page.

First and foremost, expect to see all my adventures in homesteading: gardening, beekeeping, composting, pigs, goats, chickens, building stuff, canning, dehydrating, and whatever else comes up. Homesteading also dovetails nicely with my efforts to bring more simplicity to my life. Read about me being a hippie, from naturally enjoying my body to approaching environmental issues carefully. I ramble about Burning Man a lot, since attending Burning Man and related events has given me a different framework for thinking about things. Enjoy my perspective on love, sex, and relationships, which often focuses on polyamory and BDSM. I’m also a big fan of body modification in many forms, so I’m likely to post about my tattoos, my stretched ears, my dreadlocks, and other things that interest me in the realm of body mod. Finally, there’s my random thoughts, which is where you’ll find my musings on politics and religion and social issues that come to mind.

Want to Participate?

The easiest way you can participate with LoveLiveGrow is to comment on my posts. I’d love to hear your feedback! You can also contact me here if there’s something you’d like to let me know privately. Have something in particular you’d like to see from me here? Let me know!

Also, I’d love to feature guest posts on LoveLiveGrow. If you’ve got your own thoughts about homesteading, being a hippie, body modification, Burning Man, or anything else you think might fit in here, let me know and let’s talk about featuring your post here.

Final Words

In closing, my focus for this blog is wrapped up in my focus for my life right now, which is best stated poetically and is wrapped up in the title of this blog: I aim to LOVE openly, LIVE loudly and lightly, and GROW wildly and grow older but never grow up. I hope that you, too, can take something positive through reading along.