March 1998...........I personally am here because this is a relatively unspoiled, remote area where it`s still possible to live close to Nature and attain, I hope, a relative degree of self-sufficiency---if you mean by personal freedom "having the power to control the circumstances of one`s own life---being in control of the life and death issues of one`s existence: food, clothing, shelter, and defense against threats there may be in your environment", then I`m into increasing my own personal freedom. Consequently, I`m into continuing to develop the self-sufficiency potential of our place here--- food-wise, energy-wise,...gardens, storing food,...getting off the grid...but mostly I want to learn from and be healed by Nature.

BTW, my name is Charles Murley but On-Line my moniker is Charmur ;-)

me-summer1997