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Observations — My SWOT Analysis
Living off-grid in the woods teaches you much about living in Suburbia, too.
My SWOT Analysis — Surprises, Weeks, Observations, and Triumphs
Monday I wrote a piece on the surprises I’ve encountered from seven weeks of tent camping in Upper Michigan. One of the most important lessons is that “Life’s imperfections are its perfections.”
Hence the photo above. An older tree fell to it’s death years ago. New life sprang up to replace it. And the baby tree ran into the mostly-fallen dead tree, which quit literally, should have “stumped” its growth.
But Nature doesn’t work like that. Life finds a way of adapting. And in doing this SWOT analysis where I’m not using Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
Today, I’m writing about some key observations about life that are practical for living out in the woods while tent camping, but things we can observe that are beneficial to living in Suburbia as well.
Observations
Henry David Thoreau went into the woods in his young 30s, I’m in the woods mid-50s. But some of the things we have documented, learned, or observed, remain as true today as they did more than a century ago.
