Here is a new music video by the Mallett Brothers, a local Maine band. The song is not only awesome and inspiring with amazing harmonizing and spot on guitar picking, but my first cousin Nick is the bassist, which makes it that more personal and meaningful to me.
The song talks about moving to a small town, ("far away from the pavement") and about living a simpler life. It's fitting since for the last few months Matt and I have really focused a lot of our what-comes-after-korea conversations around buying an old farmhouse in the countryside. Regardless of whether or not that happens in the first few years of being home, it has become a goal of ours for sometime in the future.
Living in Daejeon, a smallish city of 1.5 million, and weekending in Seoul (a city of 20 million), we've come to have some serious opinions about city living and have realized that city life is not for us. While we appreciate it here in Korea, the public transportation, the proximity of everything, and the ease of travel, we know it's not meant to be for us. We spend our days daydreaming of land, space, flowers, gardens, an old barn to store hay in. That probably won't change.
We have 17 months before heading home and starting another life, which means we have 17 months to hone in on what our goals and aspirations are, what means a lot to us, and what doesn't. What kind of life do we want to live in Maine, and how do we achieve it? In some respects, having the time here to sort through these topics is a Godsend. I can't imagine being home right now, stressed, planning and wedding and thinking about jobs and affording a loan for our first house. All of it just seems like too much. But thankfully we have time to sift through our thoughts and come up with a loose plan that we can change and adapt throughout the next 17 months.
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