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Loading... My Million-Dollar Donkey: The Price I Paid for Wanting to Live Simplyby Ginny East
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With the slightly startling realization that their lives were worth more if someone else owned them, Ginny and her husband Mark decided to cash in their life and reinvent their world. Packing up their three kids and a dog, they said goodbye to a thriving dance studio business, and moved to 50 acres of land in northwest Georgia. Life, however, seldom offers smooth and simple paths. As they traded in sequins for overalls-and stability for a stab at self-sustainability-their million-dollar quest to set up a modest life became a scramble to figure out how to navigate the complicated world of simple living without losing the very thing they wanted most. In My Million-Dollar Donkey: The Price I Paid for Wanting to Live Simply, Ginny honestly-with both the optimism of the inexperienced and the wisdom of the exhausted-recounts the four years she and her family gave to their incredibly complex attempt to forge a life that would lead to more poignant and heartfelt relationships with the environment, community and, most importantly, one another. But change isn't easy because, when we move, we take ourselves along... Eventually, even though some of their chickens don't lay eggs, their plans start to, and Ginny and Mark are forced to answer an even more difficult question: what does a couple do when they look at the mountains together, but can't agree on the best path to get past them? Book jacket. No library descriptions found. |
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"Ginny honestly recounts the four years she and her family gave to their complex attempt to forge a life that would lead to stronger relationships with the environment, community and, most importantly, one another."
(Publisher's note)
"When some people go through a midlife crisis, they buy themselves a Porsche.
Me? I bought a donkey" (Ginny East)
Ginny's story will elicit every emotion.
I laughed with her, cried with her and occasionally just set the book down and walked away, dismayed by the/her circumstances.
What an engrossing story and so many lessons to be learned when one tries to embrace simplicity but led via the route of complexity.
I love the little lessons of nature that she shared with her reader.
Ginny taught me more about chicks, eggs and incubation than I'd ever known.
The beauty of the garden and animals and childrens participation
was marred by Mark's continual evolution of the log home he was building for the family.
It became a million dollar quest for a life of simplicity.
The book is very rich in detail, candid and had that special combination of tragic/heartwarming moments.
Read Ginny's story and be thankful you can learn vicariously.
4.5 ★ ( )