Roots Down or A Little History

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Roots Down or A Little History
A good friend of mine once said: «You know I think our Earth is the best place in the universe. And there is nowhere more wonderful... At any price we have to settle down here, on Earth. We must not fly off anywhere, we won't find a better place, but we can lose this one. Amongst my friends there's a lot wishing to fly away, out of here. This is like trees, starting to grow their roots upwards in the wrong direction. . We have to turn over, and start to grow roots downwards, in the earth. “The best in the Universe». I liked her words very much. The metaphor about the tree roots expressed the feelings I have been having these past few years – I want to grow roots downwards, like trees.
The realisation of my willingness to move to the eco settlement appeared to me about five years ago. And, since then, it has been slowly developing: I visited several settlements, read a lot on this subject, and was looking for like-minded people and land... And the geography of eco settlements was examined – the place for living drifted from Europe to the Far East, then shrunk down to Siberia, and after that – localized to Altay. It's been three years since I knew I would live in Altay. In spring of 2011, I heard rumours, that the people I knew (some of them I knew personally, some only «virtually») started to organize a settlement and gathered people who wanted to participate. I felt – this was what I needed, I checked out some photographs, looked at the maps and read the description. I called one of the co-ordinators and asked only a single question: are there any mosquitos in that area? (The memories about a place in the Tyumen Region were still fresh in my head, where, after we got out of the car, we'd been almost eaten alive by mosquitos; we left alive, but the desire for ecological life went down). After getting the answer, that there is just a few, I told them I was participating. I did believe myself and my feelings and the people who started this «adventure».
So, at the beginning of May 2011 our delegation of the to-be-settlers, along with the representatives of several cities came to the Regional Centre to legalize the land ownership. It was a long process. We, again, were reassured that bureaucracy is the greatest science on Earth. But everything resolved in our favour. About 1200 acres of land, the first part of our lot, was registered to our shared collective ownership. That was the beginning of our eco-experiment. Now official.
While looking for a place to live, a lot has changed in my private life. I had different relationships, visits to civilian Registrars' for different, sometimes opposite purposes. Whatsoever, the moment I'm writing about, having arrived in the settlement, the first building, more or less suitable for living, appeared, I was together with Natalia, and we were already thinking in what part of the valley were we going to start building our own house?
I think it's a very important factor that the family should be unanimous in the issue of moving to the virgin lands. Anyway, I will write about it a bit later, and now another important question: «Why?»