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unfortunate truth is real, lasing internal transformaion isn’t something that is conferred through the construcion of a green- friendly structure.
Character laws
I had some deep-rooted character laws that no amount of yurt habitaion was going to cure. I was the one person responsible for my situaion and no amount of bitching and complaining was going to change it.
Ater the heat (and my tempter) subsided, I wrapped the hose in electrical tape and slinked my way home. Time needed to pass before I could begin to recognize and appreciate the experience of having built such a unique structure. I needed to learn that building it was an act of love, not self-adulaion.
Despite not geing much opportunity to enjoy it in the summer, rening the yurt has created a sense of community in those we choose to share it with. When we started to think of it as a chance to invite the world to our doorstep, the world responded in kind. We’ve welcomed people from Spain, Switzerland, France, America, Quebec and locals from New Brunswick.
Catalyst for transformaion
In the end, the yurt has proven to be the catalyst for transformaion we intended. But never in my imaginaion did I expect it to happen as it has. In the ime since we moved to New Brunswick to build a yurt and start our lives over again I don’t recognize myself from ive years ago.
(Coincidentally, that journey provided ample material for my irst book “Life, the Yurt and Everything.” Given that I was a man with a dream but no content, it was a fortuitous development. But all things considered, maybe a weekend wriing retreat is the wiser investment.)
I’m now the published author of two books with a third, my irst novel, to be released in the spring of 2016.
About the Author: Jason E. Hamilton is an author, speaker and writer who earned his chops the hard way: while killing ime on ilm sets. His irst book “Life, the Yurt and Everything” was published in 2013. Eighteen months later he released his second non-icion book “Finding Asia.” 2016 is shaping up as a busy publishing schedule: “The Prince of Acadia & the River of Fire (Mid- Grade non-icion) and “New Brunswick: Fronier of the Canadian Dream” will be released. Jason lives in Dieppe, New Brunswick with his seven-year-old son and life partner Sylvie.
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