Chicklets, Compost & Crocuses… and ‘Content Creation”

Day in the Life at ‘The Living Workshop’

Chicks finally move outside, Compost piles thaw, and the first signs of Spring – Crocuses appear from the soil.

I’m not good at ‘content creation’. Because I don’t want to make ‘content’. I want to live a life. I want to raise our chickens, train our dog, listen to music, turn the compost, plant seeds and work on building our life.

I don’t want to have to worry about content. About filming. About framing the shot, syncing to my socials, maximizing for SEO and all that sort of stuff that simply takes away from just living our life.

Because the thing is- my life is good. Our life is good. Our little ecosystem is growing, and thriving and evolving. And that is much more worthwhile to me that having an internet following, or being rich, or any of the other ‘things’ our society tells us we should be looking for.

I have a vision of where our lives will go. Creating this Living Workshop. Building with wood. Growing Mushrooms. Composting the waste. Raising animals and growing some of our own food. And sharing it with others.

Ideally I can share it all with you online– it a way that isn’t soul sucking or too distracting to me.

So that’s what I have been working on during the wintertime. I built this website. I set up a Piefed instance(think reddit but not centralized). I learned how to set up cameras outside to video the chickens and what we are working on in the garden and around the site. I learned how to stream those cameras. I learned how to use what cameras I had laying around to make videos.

And yet- now that the sun is out and the ground is thawed – I find myself simply being weighed down by attempting to make ‘content’.

Tending the compost- “Oh should I video this? Would this make a good photo op?”

Taking me out of the moment and back into this digital world.

And so I go outside in the sun and start the fire.

Stare into it.

Feel it’s warmth.

note: this has been sitting here in the drafts for the last 3 weeks. Sent it out into the Aether.

Awen