Today was a spontaneous full working day on our land: I began with selecting an appropriately-girthed oak as a first of 6 pillars for our mezzanine, then we progressed to pruning the olives and clearing (even more!!) brambles...
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. 🙏🌟❤️🔥 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, 
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!
But the sense of our creating, co-creating this glorious place, together with Gaia Sophia and The Intelligent Universe, God, The Great Spirit - the feeling of even very small things (that others take totally for granted, that folks can buy with money if they have a more conventional job) - it is a richness beyond measure.
We are - at least some of the time - in a state of profound gratitude, and this will expand as we get the land more 'productive', the trees more happy, the insects more tuned-in with us. I look forward to sharing more soon! 💝🙏🙌
With Love And All Good Things,
