A Life Reconnected: Esther Emery on Dialogue
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- Marcia Franklin talks with Idaho writer Esther Emery about her first book, "What Falls from the Sky," which chronicles her year without the internet in 2009. The two talk about what precipitated Emery's experiment, the challenges involved, and what she learned.
Emery, the daughter of Carla Emery, a well-known back-to-the-land movement proponent, also discusses her 'off the grid' life in the mountains near Boise. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Love Esther Emery, I’m looking forward to be seeing another great book.
Esther is such a strong spirit* I hope the world is able to hear from her again ~
I'm so happy this is on TH-cam! I have been anticipating watching it! Esther, I can't help but notice your confidence and mental clarity when you speak. You express your thoughts so clearly and eloquently. You have some amazing talents and gifts! Thank you for sharing your time and life to share them with us all. ❤
Esther, as a young person who just bought 19 acres only three years ago and am still in the first stages of "struggle" and learning skills while working double shifts to pay the mortgage, I want to say thank you for being such an inspiration and model of encouragement. It might be hard right now but you remind me to find the joy in small moments and relish the satisfaction of achieving my goals one small step at a time
One of the few channels that I must be addicted to is the Fouche O Matic channel. It certainly would be hard to give it up! Thanks for the great interview!
Oh my what to say...It's an understatement when i say i am just loving watching your personal channel.i have binge watched several hours worth now and find you insightful and eloquent and so intriguing ...Fouch family off grid is my top favorite channel watching Nick build and the kids and just the interaction of a family living a peaceful life in this day and age is wonderful Bless you all
great interview. Love the fouch-a-matic channel. even a city-dweller that lives on grid can take so much away from their videos. Their family's vlogs are so heart-warming. Great interviewer, Ms. Franklin as well. lovely.
Thank you Esther, for your work, and your own vulnerabilities. Also to Nick, for his hard work and support... You guys are a true blessing to be able to watch and learn from!
Love this, thank you for sharing and Esther is a beautiful women that so many of us appreciate and admire in every way. I love Esther and her beautiful family, my favorite TH-cam channel! Be safe, stay warm to all.
Karey From: Missouri
I've watched the Fouch family videos for a couple of years and really enjoy their self-reliance, drive and knowlegde of building, gardening and living the way they want.
This was so great. Esther, i envy you and am letting go of technology a little at a time. I can give it up for about 6 months then i start feeling the same as you did about how if its not posted maybe its not happening. I cant seem to get past that mark. Hearing you in this has definitely helped me understand what i am going through. This was so helpful to me.
Beautiful - The best most beautiful things that the world gives as a gift.
Can be seen and touched - It must be felt with IMAGINATION.
This was so good! I am so glad Esther's words and experience are being shared!
Excellent imterview! Thanks to Idaho Public TV for producing and sharing.
Great interview with Esther. I have been a fan of her journey since discovering her from a Seeker Daily video. Since then her and her husband's youtube channel have become my favorite homesteading channel. Then she started her personal channel that has also become one of my favored channels.
Esther's williness to share her journey is great, and inspiring. The unplugging from the internet is a telling story of how important the internet is in this day in age. The dependence people have on tech and internet. I have lost friends because I do not necessarily immediately text them back if they text me. So many people expect others to be on demand 24/7. I am also a Facebook and Twitter resistor and refuse to join those social media sites.
Oddly it is the very internet that Esther unplugged from before that likely has made her (and other modern homesteaders) homesteading experience so successful now. The internet helps link and unite distant homesteaders forming a community of like minded people. This was something the older back to land movement her mom was involved in had troubles with. The disconnection of people from community when they build a homestead was very trying. But with internet the modern movement has built a way for homesteaders to share and help each other either with knowledge or even just moral support.
Esther, I'm happy to see the public is grasping onto your story. Great job on the interview.
-Kori
Your story is very encouraging and hopeful for many of us still hoping for life to be different, thankyou
Lovely in every way. As I move from an on screen personae to a more true identity as a faithful, delightful abiding sheep in a peaceful pasture. . .seeing your glimpse of the other side is instructive and real. Simplicity, silence, Spirit-following are ingredients to a recipe that seems to move from bland to complex flavors of life as I sprinkle the recipe with grace and forgiveness. This interview confirms my journey and adds to my hope.
Really nice interview with Esther Emery - - learned more about her experience, and have been watching her TH-cam channels for some time. Kudos and Thankyou.
This is my second watch of dialogue with Esther Emery! Am now a fan of your channel. Such great courage and guts to tell it AND to live it. You are blessed! Keep doing what you do, I'm gonna get your book and look forward to the journey it will take me!
I love this!
I am a follower of Ester's family you tube channel and am so glad to get to view this interview with her.
Hugs from Maine.
Esther sent me. Thanks for all you do. Godspeed.
I too would love if she wrote about the relationship with her mother, her now living the lifestyle her mother wrote about and loved.... there's a great story there
ESTHER AND HER FAMILY ARE BEAUTIFUL SPIRITS. IT IS SO EASY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM. NICK AND ESTHER WERE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER AND THE CHILDREN ARE SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE THEIR MOM AND DAD TO LOOK UP TO AND LEARN FROM. THAT WHOLE FAMILY SETS AN EXAMPLE FOR HUMANITY. THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS INTERVIEW WITH ESTHER.
I love Esther and her family blog.
Beautiful interview, Esther and Marcia.
Esther, I could see your Christian faith in your You Tube channel. To me, that actually is more fascinating than the other interesting off grid stuff. Faith, love and family seems to the theme of the show. Love it. God bless!
What a wonderful interview Esther. I've not been following any of the back to the land experience of today, but I stumbled upon the resource in TH-cam features quite by luck. I also stumbled upon your videos with even greater luck. What drew me in was the obvious good nature revealed by five good people of your family. You fit together so well, and your story sings with an equal joy and satisfaction throughout, and that is a treasure of the heart not altogether common in life today. Your children are extremely fortunate to have two parents providing them with a childhood of happiness that will make them strong and loving people for life. For them, you are creating documented memories that will be with them for all their lives, but it will also extend to their children as well.
one talented women may god bless you and your family
Love this family
WHERE DID Esther Emery AND HER FAMILY GO?! I MISS THEIR TH-cam CHANNEL
Great Job! I'm so glad I got to see it and I cant wait to see you at the Homesteading Conference!
I've been watching fouch-o-matic for a while, and recently found your own channel. This interview has given me a new appreciation of your life. I lived through my parents marriage crisis. They are now in their 90's. I love to see their love and kindness to each other. In those times of crisis, if people are willing to work together to find those things that brought them together in the first place, they can find a stronger bond then they realized. I can't wait to read your book.
I enjoyed the video - thanks for posting
Great interview! Esther you are Amazing...I love both channels..."Fouch Family Off Grid"...and "Esther Emory"! I learn so much from your videos, even though I'm a city dweller. Also, I love the fact that the Interviewer really did her research. Well Done!
Thank you for this honest and open Interview - Thank you Esther.
What a great interview!! Can't wait to read the book!
Wonderful interview. Deep, authentic and articulate. Thanks to both of you.
Esther Emery is such a beautiful person
great interview love watching Esters video's online and you caught the essence of her being. 💖💖💖
Big fan from Texas, proud of You and Nick and the kids. I want to arrange a signed copy of Your first book if at all possible!
Great interview....it would be awesome for you to republish an update of your Mom's book! You rock!
Very interesting, wonderful
Love it!
Awesome!
I wish Esther would reconnect again.
This chick is going to go far!
Love the comment "windows of a literal kind!"
IMPRESSIVE
I want to hear more about this anti-existential philosophy where meaning is received rather than constructed (as the existentialists would argue). Is this a Christian thing? It feels to be in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau.
what a fine mind.
I gave up internet phone cable TV and a perfectly running car. to get ahold of me you had to write a letter or honk and shout outside of my 3rd floor apt.
I read 4 books a day sometimes (1500 pages) and did just things. I rode my bike and/or took the bus or walked.
I did this for over a year until my mother wrote me she was Ill. cancer. so I was forced back to phone internet and car while she was dying to communicate asap with all.
I have been following Esther and Nick on their TH-cam channel and one thing is clear. Living 'simply' is NOT simple. Grow your own food? Sure, but what you can grow depends a lot on where you live. You can't grow whatever you want. And don't expect much from your first crop, either. It takes a while to figure it all out. And 'simple' is almost as expensive as the alternative, at least at first. You have to invest in tools, equipment, and seeds. You have to prepare the ground properly, balance the chemicals in the soil, get the water right, and each kind of plant requires different levels of watering. Live 'off grid?' Now THAT'S expensive. You need some sort of electrical source, but whether you go with solar panels, wind generators, or some other way of making electricity the initial investment costs a LOT of money. And the technology to control the current is not exactly easy for beginners. Heat your home without a furnace? If your home is not already set up for an alternative heat source converting it is very difficult and, again, the investment may cost more than it's worth. If you want to go for it, then do it, but it will take years of preparation and more money than I make.
Did I hear correct thst Esther said she has become a vegan?
Deep South sent me. Cheryl from TN.
PEACE
What the HELL am I watching? Someone's dirty laundry?
First this woman promotes her book,
then she throws her on mother under the bus - calls her a dirty hippy,
then she throws her husband under the bus - calls him a dirty cheating fornicator,
...and that's just the first 3min. Whoa... So glad she's not my wife - unruly disrespectful and harried woman!
First of all, there was infidelity on both sides of the marriage, and she addresses that pointedly and humbly in other videos. Secondly, she has a deeply complicated relationship with her mother (both in her mother's relationship with the public and her relationship with her and her siblings). If you watch her other monologues about it, you can see how much she vacillates between love/admiration/pride and resentment/regret/confusion when she unpacks her feelings about her mother. This isn't unique to Esther. I think just about everyone has complicated feelings and relationships with our parents and our memories of childhood. That's not throwing them under the bus--that's telling our stories honestly. Esther is a writer and a storyteller. Her stories belong to her and they're hers to share as she pleases.
I gave up internet phone cable TV and a perfectly running car. to get ahold of me you had to write a letter or honk and shout outside of my 3rd floor apt.
I read 4 books a day sometimes (1500 pages) and did just things. I rode my bike and/or took the bus or walked.
I did this for over a year until my mother wrote me she was Ill. cancer. so I was forced back to phone internet and car while she was dying to communicate asap with all.