WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think might help. Everyone and all sorts of troubles are welcome. May we find peace and healing here. Won't you please share the joy of WYFP by recommending?
Vagabond seems to be a euphemism for vagrant or homeless, yet as one has seen there are folks in DK who do live that kind of lifestyle, where even that term is euphemistic and of course ironic in the USA. Nearly everyone has felt that when moving to a new city whether voluntarily or not. It is unfamiliarity simply with one's daily routines as well as a new social network, all suggesting some kind of path or trajectory of choices for one's remaining life, all constrained by
remaining wealth or its absence. Rationalizations of freedom of action, movement, aside, it is the demographic history of the US writ small, migration or immigration deciding to stay or figure out ways to accomplish meaningful work or career despite contradictory expectations or intentions by your bosses. More below the fold for FPs that involve moving and not moving one's locale where location seems more cybernetic under telecommuting.
Part of a nomadic group: a vagabond tribe.
Certain simple and minimalist characteristic: vagabond habits.
Having an uncertain or irregular course or direction: a vagabond voyage.
The commonality is living simply, sustainable, and love to travel for extended period of time
I seem to have none of these, with multiple storage spaces, residences, familial obligations, debts, and now an actual part-time job that pays enough to equal full-time work but is 1500 miles away from any place I've called home for many decades. With all respect to long-time inhabitants, unless I had to fight the Apocalypse, this would not be a choice except for the job is here as I write this. I expect to return home on Thursday, with some decisions to make before then:
Do I move my mom with me and live here for the next nine months with much unfinished at home in both CT & CA or do I move back and forth with much telecommuting, coming in every two or three weeks for a week at a time. It's about resources and money - fortunately things that are constrained as long as so many things have been left undone as chronicled in the prior weeks, months, years of WYFP. I am considering investing in an old RV and living in it more permanently over the next couple of years, regardless of the job situation and as I try to simplify my life and its obligations.
While I have loved to travel it's less important to me as I've gotten older - it's more expensive and not as exciting to me unless I'm actually accomplishing something creative, contemplative, meaningful, and sustainable. OTOH, am I ready to join or even tolerate trailer culture?
So what's your FP tonight!