Living well isn’t something you chase.
It’s something you cultivate through practice.
The soil in which we grow and its condition dictates our experience
Small, steady gestures that help a human life become coherent again.
A place to build a life that feels honest and sustainable.
Where the Work Takes Shape in the World
When a philosophy is real, it shows up in how a place – and a life – is tended, how people move through their days, and what they choose to offer the world. At Wayward Haven Farm, the work of living well takes shape in three ways — in our creativity, in the conditions we cultivate, and in the daily life of the farm itself.
Support the Work
If this work nourishes you, you can help sustain it.
Wayward Haven is tended slowly — through writing, teaching, stewardship, and the quiet daily work of the hermitage. If the Living Well ecology has supported your own life, you are welcome to support the work in return.
There is no paywall here. No tiers. No rewards. Just reciprocity.
Your contribution helps keep the hermitage tended, the writing free, and the ecology alive for others who need it.
Reflections From the Hermit’s Porch
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Unlearning the System’s Story
For years I tried to fit myself into systems built for certainty and control. They offered benefits, but they also took more than they gave. Even after leaving them physically, I found I was still attached interiorly—still chasing worth outside…
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Practices for Late Summer #2
At Wayward Haven, we savor this late‑summer pause — the quiet space between harvest and the slow turn toward fall. Nature shifts gradually, but our human systems push us from task to task without rest. This week’s practice is simple:…
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Practices for Late Summer I
“Rest: as beautiful a task as any. how else can we remember to breathe? to think? to regain the strength to take on the world with all our senses? to dream?” — Shellen Lubin This week’s practices for Living Well…
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On Living Through a Mad World
It’s a mad world right now — not just in the headlines, but in the grocery aisles, the rent payments, and the quiet fear of not being able to keep up. When the outer world grows louder and more chaotic,…
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Standing in the Truth of Our Needs
Our needs don’t vanish when we silence them; they simply wait for us to become steady enough to hear them. In a world that keeps us bracing, regulation becomes the doorway back to ourselves. Only when the body settles can…
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The Age of Identity and the Return to Presence
Walking the farm at dusk, I felt the old reflex rise — the tug of “am I enough?” — and watched it pass like weather. Turning back to the world in front of me, the field widened. Presence returned. This…