Jason Harris

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After trying my hand at a lot of the modern world's experiences and lifestyles, including a couple farmstead "intentional communities" as well as the over domestication of the urban grind,  my choice clearly became one of either a cabin up in the mountains or a sailboat. I figured since I grew up in the mountains of northern Appalachian with a proper modern hillbilly lifeztyle, including compulsory chores of chopping firewood and skinning and gutting deer, that the way to the ocean was the way to personal growth.

How much is worth putting down here? Since timing and chemistry play such significant roles, I'll keep it as concise as possible.

What ive noticed about me: I'm 5'8, 150 lbs, athletic by living a challenging lifestyle not vanity. My demeanor is more akin to a Dutch/Scandinavian one, not a stereotypical American one. I'm an ambivert, in that with people I trust I have a hard time shutting up, but with those I don't know or trust I can be nearly mute if so inclined. My communication style is bluntly laconic/sardonic.

What I'm looking for in a partner: Someone a little bit similar and a little bit different than me, and preferably between the age of 26 and 40. Someone that takes themselves just seriously enough, but never too seriously. Able to assert and set their own personal boundaries, so we "teach others how we want to be treated".

What I expect in a relationship: Loyalty, with open and honest communication. With someone similar enough to meet in the middle of our respective worldviews, because every relationship is a form of mutual compromise. And, of course, lots of cuddles, hugs, laughs, and pranks. I'm recreational substance use tolerant, but anything that borders on addiction to more than sugar, tobacco, or caffeine is not something I want to have in my day to day life.

Where I'm intending to be if I'll be anywhere: Present and engaged in the simplicity and purity of the moment, open to goodness and beneficial change and jaded against injustice and corruption. Currently in Key West but only go into town for work and supplies, may head South into the caribbean or North up the East Coast within the next 6 to 8 months.
4 years ago
Haha, wow. Even I can't believe how many lonely dudes crawled out of the woodwork on this one. Well, I'm on a sailboat and am 43 so probably not your ideal option.

But I did live at an "intentional community" called Eastwind, it's in southern Missouri. They have a website and blogs on YouTube to help give you an idea. Keep in mind such things only show the outward customer service face, not the whole nitty gritty reality. It's pretty much a commune left over from the hippie days. The male to female ratio is wonky there too, likely because going off into the sticks to work the land seems antithetical to what most would call progress; and disaffection and disenfranchisement seems to hit males more for some reason. So if you go there be prepared for minor celebrity status as a young woman, you'd have your pick no matter what you look like.
4 years ago
I live on my sailboat off of Key West. It's "off the grid" since all my power is solar or wind generated, but I live in close proximity to a place which is as "on the grid" as one can get. Sailboat living can be relaxing, but in the long-term it takes as much patience and tolerance for challenge as living in a cabin up in the mountains, or working in the fields from sun up to to sun down so there's that going for it.

After a long time of getting tired of the tourist trap mentality and lifestyle though I've been itching to sail either South into the Caribbean or up the East coast somewhere. Are you an adventurous sort?
4 years ago