THE PARADISE TEST

1. When you enter the driveway to your homestead does the view speak to you in a deep way?
2. When you sit in the places where you spend most of your day are you in the most beautiful view plane you can arrange?
3. As you move about inside are there sufficient openings so the fresh air comes in unfettered.
4. Does the sound of your rustling trees and bushes drown out the machine noises about you?
5. Does the sun have a place to visit you in the morning hours?
6. Is there a truly secluded meditation spot somewhere within range of your office
or work spaces?
7. Do you have the sound of falling water near where you receive guests?
8. Can you shift to see the sunset in the evening?
9. Do you have the satisfaction of knowing you arranged most of the landscape in or around your views?
10. Is there a lane near where you enter your home that is laced with fragrant flowers and bushes?

If you find that practical considerations or the limited thinking of your builder have given you a sterile cookie cutter existence …then perhaps you would be a candidate for a landcrafter class. We know that beauty and engaging the senses heals the soul and the mind. Home grown food will also heal the soul and the body. But plane old concrete driveways and houses built without regard to that engaged sensitive relationship with nature doesn’t get you to paradise … it gets you to a place where you are looking at a computer in a stuffy room listening to the refrigerator motor while staring at a blank wall.
It makes no difference what size house you have. If your key work stations are connected to nature you win. Quality of life is a matter of design.