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<title>Beyond the sidewalks</title>
<description>Living beyond the sidewalks, being self-sustained and truly independent. </description>
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<title>A footpath of my own</title>
<description>&lt;p&gt;I've&amp;nbsp;traded my&amp;nbsp;high heels for work boots since moving to the country... I've traded a briefcase for a pitchfork, a&amp;nbsp;cell phone for a shovel...you get the idea. My use of those artifacts in the city never meant much to me. I could set my briefcase down somewhere and walk off and forget it, I could never find my cell phone in the bottom of my purse and as soon as I got home the first thing to go were those high heels...how they hurt. I never felt natural, never felt like me when I worked in the city. There was an inner yearning, something calling me to a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; life....a life beyond the sidewalks, beyond the crowded freeways and power lunches and hurry up and wait life. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sitting behind a desk never gave me any real human connection, I knew I didn't care about the bottom line. I was there because I had to be. That wasn't any kind of liberation, it was bondage. It was bondage that sapped my soul a little bit more each day. I needed to make myself whole, and I'm so glad that I finally found my way out...a life outside the malls on a footpath of my own. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Sponsored by EnterTo.com the first REAL &lt;a href=&quot;http://mail.enterto.com/signup.html&quot;&gt;spam free email&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Click Below to discover and share content from anywhere on the web&lt;br /&gt; &lt;script src=&quot;http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</description>
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