When we first realised we needed to leave our yurt, I found myself feeling emotions that I had not really expected. Of course there was the practical stress: where would we go, how would we move everything, what would we do next? But underneath the logistics was something much deeper that took me a while to acknowledge. I was grieving. I was grieving a future I had imagined. The yurt had become more than just a structure we lived in. It represented a choice we had made to ste