Taking a full day like this, pushing ourselves physically, pushing and stretching, listening and breathing deeply, talking and resolving complex entanglements (literally and figuratively): this was the most blessed of days - quite one of my favourite so far on our land.
It helps that we now have an actual tap in our kitchen - so we could more easily organise water for a semi-bath (in a big plastic tub, in front of our roaring fire) - and that the living room/ bedroom is now in a semblance of order (even if we do have to cover part of it in plastic, whenever it rains!); life here begins to feel genuinely comfortable, consistently beautiful, more profoundly full-filling.
And with this development, comes the spiritual alignment again. I do not mind admitting that these first months on our homestead have been super-challenging - even too challenging at times - and though I've never thought about abandoning it, we've certainly had to take regular breaks and have occasional distractions from the overwhelm.
As we unravelled whilst working today, the hardest aspect of being here is not the weather, nor is it us having so few resources to work with... It's having too many ideas, all our time, and the freedom to do.... anything and everything!!
Lots of folks who have more rigid schedules, structures, bosses, wages, etc., like to think that they'd love to have our kind of freedom. And we value it as much as we value life itself. ππβ€οΈβπ₯ At the same time, the human conscious being as it is nowadays - uptight, overstimulated, undermined by strange misprogrammings - it can be quite the wild horse to break in.
And we've been taming this beast together, and I, these past months. Now that we're seeing visible progress rising up like Shangrila is effortlessly blossoming by itself. Instantly, all the strains are forgotten, and the tension drops from our faces and shoulders.
The contrast between the two states of extreme tension and worry, and then (though rather tired!) profound, joyful relief - it can be jarring at times!
With Love And All Good Things,