Making Friends Carla McMann
Making FriendsAge: 31 years
Country: United States
State/Province: Georgia
City: Blairsville
About Me:
I can personally attest to the truth of Anastasia’s words through my life experience. I was mutually wanted by both parents, prayed for, conceived, born, and raised on my parents’ kin’s domain…. They bought land when they had two babies in diapers, pitched up a tent, built a house with their own hands, grew a garden, homeschooled and homesteaded. We hand pumped water from the well and heated it up on the wood stove, had an outhouse, had solar power for lights in the evening, and didn’t even get electricity to the house until the year 2000. I grew up with the wilderness as my back yard, with minimal exposure to technology, with my siblings and farm animals as my friends. Once my older siblings moved out, I entered public school in the 2nd grade, and for the majority of my life I felt starkly alone, like I could speak everyone else’s language but no one quite knew how to speak mine… and I realize now that it’s mostly because I was raised much closer to the way we were all meant to be…
I don’t smoke or drink, I’m trying to navigate living in a technological world and be as independent from technology as possible, I’m trying to lovingly shift relational/behavioral coping strategies that result from living in the false world, I’m trying to move away from lust within love without demonizing it and therefore making it hold more power over me, I’m growing my own garden, saving funds to build my own home, homeschooling my son, and doing what I can to help restore the earth to its pristine origins. I am an herbalist, yoga instructor, and poet… but more importantly than any of that, I feel motherhood is my true calling. Having children is my life’s dream but it wasn’t until my son was five years old that I read The Ringing Cedars of Russia, and I realized all the things I had done from being led astray… I am doing my best to raise my child as far away from the harm of technocratic society as possible, and build a new world, starting in my own little corner.
I am thrilled to meet and collaborate with others on a similar path.