After a couple of years living a relatively settled life, based in Kuwait, I find myself back on the road. I have never in my life owned a house or apartment, so renting a place – like I did in Kuwait – is as close as I come to having a fixed abode. Now I am adjusting once more to a life of no fixed abode, living out of a backpack and moving on from place to place as the whim takes me.
It’s such a great way to be in the world! And here in Brazil, this way of being includes plenty of time spent in hammocks. Some of the simplest inventions are the best and the humble hammock is surely in that category. It is in the very nature of a hammock to induce relaxation in one – not only a physical relaxation, a mental relaxation too. There’s something about the feeling of being supported and cocooned, together with that gentle swaying, that slows down the brainwaves, inducing one, through some mystical alchemy, to stop worrying; Ultimately to stop thinking.
A hammock and a meditation stool are the only pieces of furniture a human being needs. And if I keep honing my hammock skills, even the meditation stool might become redundant!
