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I always envisioned myself as being one

of those moms who would have fresh baked cookies and a glass

of milk ready for their kids when they walked in the door

after school.

But I always felt like there wasn't enough time for the

things that really counted.

We didn't really have much contact

with each other.

We'd be doing our own things and just bypass "oh, you're

there, hi. "

You're expected to be a cog in the wheel.

You kind of get sucked into the point where you

don't have enough time for yourself.

One day my dad said, "would you kids like to go to

the bush?" And we said yes, but we never expected that we

were actually going to go to the bush.

To get the freedom of time again we had to

free ourselves from the structure of time and

see what would happen.

When we told people we were going to take our

family into the bush for nine months,

people in the Yukon said "good for you. "

When we told friends and family down South,

they were just incredulous.

"How can you take three kids and live in the middle of

nowhere, without electricity or communication?

How? Why? What?"

First you have to pack everything up,

which is extremely boring.

Then you have to drive all the way to the river.

Are you looking forward to going to the bush?

Yup.

How come?

There' no electricity!

That's a good thing?

Yeah.

Why?

'Cause then there's no internet.

And then mom doesn't have to be on the computer all the time.

Our son, Sam, is really philosophical.

He's a creator and an innovator.

Kate is endearing and sensitive.

Kate's smile will light up a room.

Tess is sort of our free spirit

She totally has Gerard's sense of humour.

She has an amazing sense of humour.

My mother died young.

Being at the age that my mother was when she only had a year

left to live, really hit home for me that some things that are

important you just have to do.

Because sometimes, later never comes.

Go on mom.

Dad, he sometimes gets into really

philosophical thinking moments.

I am less than practical and pragmatic often,

in my head a lot.

Suzanne is mostly practical and pragmatic.

She likes to be organized.

She's fun to be around when she's not worried.

That's my role. As mother I'm the worrier.

Sam - Coming mom!

For each boat load, maybe we would need about

four - three to four canoe loads.

Each canoe load would maybe - three to four wheelbarrow loads.

Well I got the light one though.

Our friend built the cabin,

and my dad fixed up a whole bunch of stuff.

We chose not to take any

clocks or watches with us.

What we're trying to do is making a path...

so it's easier for you.

When I went into the bush, I didn't really know

what to expect, but I was excited.

I was only a little bit scared of bears.

When you go out in the bush, you almost never

see a bear.

I'm quite certain that for every bear that we do see,

many have already seen us.

A cache is something where you store food off the

ground from bears.

Walk again.

Walk.

Walk.

Walk.

Getting all the stuff to the bush and then

setting up for the winter was a really hectic time.

I believed that it was going to be better.

But then you look around you and take stock and

you think, darn, are we really just changing one set of

distractions for another?

My dad had made the outhouse.

He moved it over a lot because we needed new holes.

Your hands go right up over your head.

I'm in the outhouse hole.

It's stinky down here!

Dad, you do know that there's only like a foot

between that hole and this hole right?

Hopefully it won't cave in

while you're in there.

That would suck.

It was a really dirty job, but everything in

the bush seemed more fun than it would have

if it wasn't in the bush. So it was actually really fun.

We set up the wall tent as a fire escape in

case the cabin burned down.

The first night it was erected, we were going to

celebrate it by sleeping in it, but when we finished it was so

late we slept in the cabin.

And then the next morning we got up and looked out.

I'm not going inside there.

There's no bear in there now Kate.

Max smells bear.

Now what are we going to do?

This would be teeth I think.

That would be a claw.

The question is, who's job is it going to be

to put this puzzle back together?

When I would travel in the wilderness,

I would just carry a bear spray.

But when you have small kids the stakes are higher and so I

forced myself to learn how to shoot the gun.

Just in case.

Lean forward. Lean your body forward.

Okay.

Anytime.

Suzanne - Did you get it?

Am I pale?

Berry picking was the first moment when I thought,

okay, this is why we're here.

It's the fact of taking time.

♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, Max's cousins and uncles ♪

♪You are Max's uncles... ♪

Tess

Tess!

Tess!

Tess, where are you?

It's that helpless moment that parents

have where you know there's not much point in panicking.

But it's hard to stop the flood of thoughts.

Tess!

When we found her, she said she had gone off

following James and she was safe because she was with James and

James knew his way home.

Building the cache turned out to be a little bit

more than a three day project.

It turned out to be a little more, I think, even than a three

week project.

I'm meant for working with this kind of stuff.

I had never built really anything that was

actually going to become part of our lives.

No hugging trees anymore mom!

My dad wanted short hair.

He purposefully made it matty so we'd have to cut it.

I had always known Gerard with long hair.

To me, that was just part of who he was.

Off with it. Take it off. Yes. Freedom at last.

I kinda felt sad because I knew that he

wouldn't be able to have long hair again.

Mom couldn't bare to throw it out.

Gerard is a risk taker.

He doesn't feel like he is, I don't think.

But certainly from my point of view he's a risk taker.

Gerard - Almost got me!

There were still some more that were leaning

toward the cabin.

I was worried that they would hit the cabin.

I wish I wasn't afraid of heights.

Am I not high enough?

You aren't there yet.

You're kidding me.

No.

I think this is exactly how they say to do it in

the textbook.

Which textbook are you referring to?

My own.

It's certainly not the one I wrote.

Problem?

The problem I am facing is that there are no branches

that can hold me.

Well I guess you can't do anything about that.

Do you have Tess, Sam?

I think she's behind the cabin. I'll go check.

It's almost ready.

There she goes!

Missed by a long shot.

In the Yukon the first snow falls the end of

September.

Then freeze up starts.

We were racing against winter to get the rest of our supplies

from town, before the river started to freeze.

During that four to six weeks that it takes the

river to freeze, you just can't go anywhere.

And that really allows you to change pace and just settle in.

I was sort of waiting for that moment.

This was a time when we were actually going to start living

in the bush.

This was a time when we couldn't go back.

We really didn't go in there with the intent that

this would be our utopia forever.

It was more of an opportunity for reprieve.

But there was also this bigger issue which was the test of

loneliness and the test of purpose and the test of

cooperation.

Tess... are you sneaking marshmallows?

Tell us another story.

You know we thought, okay, three kids,

small cabin, nine months, no other kids.

They're going to drive each other crazy.

I want to roast marshmallows.

And what we found was exactly the opposite.

This one's going to be named Ella.

And that one's Tevai.

Tess, don't!

That was totally freaky.

Eight pounds.

Come here Tevai, let's weigh you.

Don't, he's butt naked.

Don't you put this on first? I put this on first.

Getting on the neck warmer is the hardest part.

Let's get you in there.

Okay, how does this neck warmer go?

And how old do you want yours to be though?

I don't know.

So they're both four months.

♪ We are the candy makers.

We work and toil all day. ♪

My fingers are stuck together.

♪ We are the candy makers.

We'll never stop to play. ♪

♪ The witch is waiting for us in the nice blue sky. ♪

There were no other houses near us so we would just

go around our house a bunch of times.

The witches are waiting, the witches are coming.

Suzanne - What do we have here?

Trick or Treat.

As you know I'm a witch and witches are very

common on Halloween.

I just flew in on my broom. Do you like it?

Yes.

It's related to the Nimbus 2000.

I designed it after Harry Potter.

Bye Bye.

This is so fun! Did you know what she gave us?

Sam, you knock, I'm scared to.

Who be laughing at me now?

Trick or treat.

Trick or treat, is it?

It's okay Tess.

It's okay.

It's okay Tess.

There you go little one.

For the little one.

Touch it if you dare.

That was freaky!

Let's go around twice. Every time okay?

Did you come to get your fortune told?

Was that a knock on the door I heard?

I just woke up.

He's silly.

That's so hot! I just came from the dead.

I'm never going to get sick of this!

What's that?

I heard an owl.

I'm checking on the horses.

They said I was the kindling maker because I'd

only chop off the very tips.

The cat came back soaking wet with ice all over it

with a whole bunch of porcupine quills.

I don't know how a cat would get porcupine quills.

My mom had to get all her leather stuff on and tie

him up in a canvas bag while my dad pulled out the quills.

I couldn't watch.

I was crying.

But James did very well because James is a really tough cat.

He just growled and snarled because it hurt so much, but he

never tried to hurt them.

We found an old miner's pit.

We decided to make a teepee over it.

You get so used to saying, "no, not now," to

your kids.

And when we went into the bush the kids would come up with an

idea and my gut reaction would be to say, "no, not now,"

and then I'd think, "oh, wait a minute. "

"Why not?"

"Yes, sure. Let's do that. "

And making that switch was a really big mind shift.

Inside is our storage place,

but outside is actually our home.

Did that hurt?

No.

Mine's working good.

People think of winter as being confining, but

winter for us is liberating because you have easier travel

on the waterways that are frozen.

Everybody on!

♪ I'm not pulling. I'm not sledding.

I'm harness sledding. First you sit, you sit, and then you put

your harness on, then push! Push! Push! And then,

You slide, slide, slide. And then, you have to stop.

Stop! You gotta stop, stop, stop. ♪

A quinzee is where you pile up a whole bunch of

snow and then you hollow it out.

How's it going?

It was surprisingly big.

We had our forts and meetings in there.

Me, Sam and Tess most of the time, we wouldn't let any

adults in.

Reach up as high as you can.

Pretend you're hungry and that's the only place for

food.

I mean there's nowhere else to get food except the cache.

Well, you could go hunting.

But it's forty below and the cache is full of food,

just sitting there.

The food was okay the first couple of days, but then

it got really tiring.

We mostly ate beans, nuts, dried fruit, powdered eggs.

Powdered milk too, which didn't taste the best.

We made a conscious decision that we were

going to live vegetarian for this winter in the bush.

So we ate a lot of beans.

We'd spend probably a bit less than half of

the day making food.

Kate - I love this.

Kate - I'm getting stuck.

It can't be this hard already.

Let's check it.

Alright. Ready?

Daddy, he kinda gets carried away.

He uses the basis of the recipe for about a minute.

And the rest, he just adds on stuff that's laying around.

For an example; "German Squash Soup. "

And he says, "It's not German, and there's no squash in it,

and it's not soup. "

First we have milk, then we have yogurt, then we

have cream cheese and then we have cheese.

Just by waiting and draining it in different ways.

My dad has a really stupid way of chopping kindling.

He finally cut his finger after all these years.

My mom had to stitch him up,

which wasn't really a big deal.

She thought he had learned his lesson.

A week later he cut his finger,

nearly in the exact same spot again.

I don't mind it.

I don't get queasy about it or anything.

My sister is always, "oh, could I try, could I do it. "

Challenging one.

Wow, Tess, don't you love how the ancient Aztecs

draw?

Use the tips of them.

That's it.

Oh here's how you...

You have a good eye for stitches.

You found the tip of the scissors.

You didn't poke me with them once,

and now I look beautiful again!

Two really essential items for living in

the bush and one is wood.

Not only did it give us heat through the cold winter, but it

was our heat source for cooking.

The other thing of course that's essential is

water and every bucket of water that we haul from that creek had

to be boiled. And that takes a lot of wood.

I got quite frustrated,

because it was after about five runs that I

finally was able to make it up by myself.

Well done, Sam man.

Here we are washing it for the first time at the

hardest time to wash it.

Can you feel your toes getting clean?

When that plunger goes suction?

Yes.

Are there holes in those socks?

Yup!

Are they worth saving?

Yup!

What's good about those socks?

'Cause they're warm.

They're warm?

Well it's on the bottom of the foot,

so it keeps the top of the foot warm.

Gerard had to make the journey back to

town every couple of months to check on his work.

River travel was interesting because sometimes

open water would occur in areas where you least expected it.

The risk of running through the ice was always there.

I did a fair bit of travel in the darkness

because the days were short.

Vision was limited to a telescope of light.

So sometimes you could hear open water but you couldn't see it.

When Dad would go to town,

Mom would get really nervous.

Sometimes he was even a day late.

I felt like a fisherman's wife.

I had no way to know if he was safe.

On the way back, the machine stopped.

I did my usual troubleshooting and couldn't get it restarted.

I think it must have been around midnight when I left to walk the

last twenty-five kilometres or so to the cabin.

After about five hours I started to stagger a little.

I realized that I was seeing little red flames

shooting off the toes of my white boots.

It took me awhile to realize that those were hallucinations.

You just wait and you worry about him getting

injured or hypothermic while you don't go and look for him.

And how do I go look for him with three young kids?

I would listen. I would strain my ears to hear the sound of

that skidoo coming back.

Winter is so long in the North that it almost

feels like it has its own set of seasons.

As we got into the deep dark winter phase, it just naturally

felt like a time to slow down, a time to come together.

Maybe we went into a bit of a hibernation mode ourselves.

We slept all together on

one big mattress on the floor.

My favourite part about being in the bush actually

was being so close to your family.

Oh, good doggy.

And that big family bed really meant a lot to us

because we were all together then.

We read out loud every nighttime.

And every time we woke up.

"I suppose you are Mr. Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables

she said in a peculiarly clear, sweet voice. "

My favourite was "Little House on the Prairie. "

We were doing the same thing as the people in the book were.

"not leaving much, but he was getting better, and better.

Eventually, he never left. "

Chapter Three!

Once when we were in "Watership Down", and they were

having the battle, we just couldn't put down the book.

We just had to keep on reading.

If my mom was crying, she had to ask my dad to read.

Or if my dad was crying, he had have to ask me to read,

because if my dad was crying, my mom was probably crying.

The magic mailbox is a mailbox, that we put our

letters in and it goes to anything;

mythical, or not mythical. And letters come back.

"My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. "

"Dear Percy Jackson, will you please marry me?

We can marry in our dreams and in games.

My heart counts on you. We will be the best pair.

Please can you marry me? Love, Kate"

I made the letter, and sended it in the magic mailbox.

"Dear Kate, I have noticed you from the

pages of the "Lightning Thief". You have a beautiful smile.

I have noticed your kindness with animals.

My best friend, Grover, would appreciate that.

Although there is a gentleness about you, I have noticed

that you are very strong. Are you also brave?

I feel you might be.

I have been thinking a lot about your proposal.

Of course, we are both too young to really get married.

And I have many dangerous adventures ahead of me.

But I think it would be great fun to marry you in your dreams,

and in games. Your friend, Percy. "

We're gathered here on this most lovely day,

to celebrate the union of two like-minded individuals.

We hope that their union will be an enjoyable one,

for the rest of their lives.

I now declare, Kate and Percy Jackson to be man and wife,

in dreams and games.

Take off the veil.

Isn't that kissing?

You may shake hands with the groom.

You have to look him in the eye.

Congratulations.

♪ "Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how

lovely are your branches" ♪

It was a perfect place to have Christmas.

It was just a perfect place.

Leading up to Christmas, we were all secretly

making things for each other.

For Kate I made a pouch for her to keep her stuff

in and for Tess I made a simple board game.

Mommy gave me a jar of partridge berry jam, and I was allowed

to eat it whenever I wanted, and I could eat it by the spoonful.

For Mommy and Daddy, me, Kate and Tess all worked

together to make a book of poems that we wrote.

"Nature. "

"The tap of the woodpecker, the beat of the wing, that is what

the forest does sing.

You talk about cities that tick tock all day.

That is what cities do say.

You must admit the forest is smart, but cities don't take

it to their heart.

Nature doesn't need us to stay alive,

but we need nature to survive. "

Our coldest day was minus fifty-one

January is the month.

It's an opportunity for melancholy.

And the questioning of things that you otherwise wouldn't

question, and despair.

So I just try to be entertained by it and maybe that's how we

make light of it.

Having cabin fever is kind of interesting.

It's normally at forty below or something when we

can't really go outside.

You just start to lose it.

When my mom gets cabin fever, I tell her she's

better than a movie.

♪ Hello Dolly.

Well hello Dolly.

it's so nice to have you back where you belong. ♪

Dad doesn't get cabin fever.

I'm a Canadian beaver.

Actually, Dad was pretty good.

We would laugh over little things and cry over

little things and when somebody would start to cry, usually me,

than somebody else would start to laugh because why was I

crying over nothing?

I think we coped with silliness.

Every night, the owls would be calling,

back and forth, and we'd be calling back and forth.

The owl did feel like a companion through the

long, long winter.

In the wall tent fire escape, we kept extra snowsuits,

mattresses, matches, wood.

We decided that we should test it out and see what it would

be like to sleep there.

Dad, stop that!

Don't stick your hand in there.

It was amazing what happened without clocks,

and watches.

You'd go to sleep when you were tired, and you'd wake up

when your body was rested.

We think in the depths of winter, we were sleeping

twelve to fourteen hours.

Won't be any such thing as being too hot tonight.

Don't have any illusions of that.

Sam's gonna have to cuddle up with us,

'cause he's always cold.

When you take out that structure of time,

you're actually present, in the moment.

And I think kids totally know that, they can sense

when you're listening and when you're faking it.

I can see my breath.

What did daddy bring from town?

We'd never had fresh fruit.

So seeing a big thing of fruit was just like going in Heaven.

You just want to look at it?

No.

More please.

What I loved about the bush is we were never bored.

Keep on going.

I like that there's a lot of time to do stuff.

And there isn't any distraction really.

We're turning a box into a dog named Boxy.

I'm making little kibbles.

This is all I do all day!

We're going to cut out a place for his mouth and cut

out a place for his bum and then we can make him poo and eat.

Oh yup. He poo'ed.

I was making a story out of Mayan hieroglyphs.

In his house he is making a pair of wings and then

he puts them on and he jumped off a cliff.

Go!

Have a low bun?

Low bun!

Lettuce!

Who shuffled these cards?

Okay, ready?

Not "pell", but "bell".

B - e - I

Sam be careful, anything may happen.

Everyday life we'd turn into school.

What else would you like to buy?

This one.

That's three dollars, Tess. Dollars.

What is "dollars"?

You know what "dollars" are.

One-hundred cents.

What's "cents"?

You know what "cents" are.

Thank you.

Kate had always done well at school, but in the

bush, spending one on one time teaching the kids, it quickly

became apparent that Kate really struggled with

writing and reading.

"She liked the... "

Sewing cards?

Sewing cards.

When we did home schooling, I felt a bit relieved

when my parents realized that I had difficulties

in reading and writing.

'cause I think I knew all along.

I don't want two left-handed mitts.

And then once my parents put the puzzle pieces

together for me, it made more sense and then I could focus

more on, "so what do I do about this now?"

Did you know a platypus is the only mammal who lays eggs?

I thought mammal meant that they don't lay eggs.

Why doesn't Mom lay an egg to have us?

'Cause we're mammals.

Exactly.

Yes, but a platypus is an exception.

Just like there's a lot of exceptions in English.

Think English is hard? Look at real life.

Cut it out, Sam.

You came here in forty-one below!

Oh, I'm cold.

Oh yeah. It's Daddy.

And I'm infective with H3N2.

That's the bad news.

You're sick.

And you brought it home.

Buddy!

I could go away if you want me to.

I couldn't believe that he would come back

to the cabin with that virus while he was still contagious.

I thought the best I could do is try and

isolate him somehow in this tiny little 18 x 18cabin.

In the middle of the night Dad heard some hammering.

He woke up and Mom was making a cage around him.

We named it the germ cage.

We kept him in there for five or six days.

Whenever he came out of his germ cage

he would have to wear a mask.

I think this is not designed to have air come

through it.

I think I'm suffocating.

That's good.

There's hope for the children yet.

And amazingly it did work.

We didn't get sick.

When the sun returns after the dark cold

winter, it is absolutely glorious to feel the sun's

warmth on your face again.

You know this teepee is from the Fall.

You're lucky I didn't spear your head, Tess.

Wow, Sam come in here. Look at the icicles.

It's like an icicle jungle. It's like a fairytale in here.

A fairytale?

The Eagle was probably over here,

flying around around, when he saw him.

Quietly came down and just knocked him out of the tree.

I felt like sort of part of our family had died.

Poor owl.

Great horned owl.

It was sort of mixed feelings for me,

because I wasn't sure if I was sad for the owl,

or happy for the eagle, because the eagle got something to eat.

In some ways, it was really joyful,

and relaxing, and carefree.

But you continually think that while real life is the life you

left behind, if it is real life...

could you live out the rest of your life, just doing this?

Where you go through the seasons, and you get your wood,

and you feed yourself, or your family, and...

and maybe a simple life is all that really matters.

I don't even remember that forty below time.

Get a little sun and it all changes.

You don't like bears?

Especially not when they're most hungry.

I want to see one, I just don't like bears.

I want to see one in the cabin!

I don't want to be next to one.

You want to see a bear in the cabin?

No, I want to see one from one of the windows.

Take a strip!

Winter is so good at that point.

I say the most one is medium.

To have the snow and the ice and warmer days,

it's just so glorious that it's hard to see that snow

melt.

As the snow is disappearing and break up is

looming, it meant the beginning of an end for us.

Can you hand me the wax, Dad?

You make an egg'a. An egg'a make'a you.

I know Santa, the Easter Bunny are

all the same guy.

Yeah, maybe Santa has a workshop for elves,

and he makes eggs, and makes them chocolate.

And then he puts them all in his basket,

and delivers them around.

My egg. Look at it!

That's a lovely one.

Look at this. Beautiful. That's my egg.

When it was overflow time, we were not allowed to go

on the river because the ice could just break through.

I most of the time just try not to think about my dad when he

was out on the overflow because I'd just get too worried.

He was chasing something, and he was too

scared to swim back.

I tried not to scare myself or he'd probably

get more scared than me.

Good boy.

Come on boy.

Daddy if this one moves...

Now I'm not supposed to come down here...

Just one foot.

This is a defence move.

Around and around...

Soaker!

It's coming guys.

It's coming.

Oh, there goes one of them.

The one we tied our canoe onto.

This is what Dad calls breakup.

It was really fun to jump on them.

It was really hard to control your footing.

If I fell in that water I would just be completely miserable.

Get on dad!

We thought that we might not be able to have

another ice cream, because the ice was melting so fast.

Chocolate ice cream!

It's like hot chocolate, but ice cream.

We were really trying to savour it.

We knew that was most likely the last time we'd

have homemade ice cream.

The bark from cottonwood, it's the easiest

thing to carve.

My brother had carved knuckle bones.

They played that in Ancient Greece and Rome.

Kate wins!

I win!

Caught somewhere I think.

Well, it feels like it's on this side.

We got it!

I got sore arms.

You realize that now that we have

the boat in the water...

Now!

It means we can actually leave.

Oh oh.

If the boat works.

We saved Dad's hair all winter.

I'm making a birds nest out of daddy's hair,

‘cause the life of the hair goes to the

life of a baby birdie.

Our dog, Max, he barked.

So I just looked and there was a bear standing

like a few feet away from me.

And I sort of told Tess that we gotta go in the cabin now.

Max is on to him.

Big bear.

Three hundred pounds I think.

Want to call Max in? Don't want Max to get hurt.

Oh, I really want to call Max in.

Max! Come! You need to.

Come! Come on! Max!

Come on Max. Come!

Max, come!

Max, come! Come.

Come. Max.

Come on Max, come!

Sam, get me the bear spray!

I try to think about the bear as mostly

being a good guy.

He's just trying to do his thing.

But the bear just wouldn't go.

Sam, get me a gun!

Go away bear!

Go on. Get!

Get a pot and a big spoon.

He's standing his ground, eh.

Go away Mr. Bear!

Go on!

Go away bear!

Go on.

Get!

Go on.

I think that's a challenging behaviour.

An aggressive black bear in the day, Sam,

you've got to show him who's boss.

Go away! Go on!

Go away bear! Go!

Off you go.

He's calling our bluff.

Don't shoot him. Don't shoot him, Gerard.

Nothing.

Be careful.

That's it. Go on. We're moving out in a few days.

Gerard - We are gathered here today to celebrate the

departure of good friends.

Friends that have been with us for, in some cases, many years.

And like all things on earth, these friends

have used up their usefulness.

So goodbye dear friends.

It is time for us to now move on with our own lives.

I'm even more sad about the cabin.

As it warmed up the snow on the hills melted so

the creek rose high enough that we were able to bring the boat

right up to the cabin.

No, I'm not ready to leave the bush.

No, I'm not ready to leave the bush.

And we depart today.

We have seen the seasonal transitions in their entirety.

The kids have learned adaptability and tolerance which

are essential tools for living in the moment.

The parents have learned that the sole purpose of time is not

to simply work or to get things done.

We now leave this simplicity with some trepidation.

The other world awaits us.

Let's hope that we can embrace it, not only from a healthier

perspective, but we hope also that we have something to offer.

We just floated down the river and camped

on the side of it.

It took us about five or six days.

In the bush you kind of feel connected

to everything around you.

I guess that's because your spend more time outside.

What I'll miss about being in the bush, is kind

of all the freedom you get here.

Daddy stop! Get down!

Being free felt like being timeless.

I think we're never going to get as closed in as we were

because we have the memory of the bush.

We can always have that to go back to.

I think that kids really crave time with their

parents and time as a family.

And so it was really wonderful to be able to have that nine

months where they could have as much of that as they wanted.

That's Dawson?

Oh.

Momma, I'm scared.

I want to see someone.

I think there is a moral, but

it's hard to live by it.

The moral would be that there are huge advantages to be had

from, say, trying to do less.

Relishing in what we might judge as lack of accomplishments.

What's that noise?

That, Kate, is the noise of things that don't live.

Life is full of contradictions.

Yeah, maybe we just need to roll with the contradictions.

We know we don't have all the

time in the world.

But for those nine months, it sure felt like we did.