This is a whole new take on The Art Of Life! Beloved 
came along for a good, deep conversation around depression, expression, creativity, transitioning into a wilder, free-er life, and working cooperatively on our land...
Listen via:
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/3P6YzWE4HSUVkquzK1HYzD
Fountain https://fountain.fm/episode/XzLi7FJBH6OJ2mvQRcpG
We had been discussing for a short while, the possibility of joining our podcasts, and this cold and damp evening after a short but chilling few hours on our land, we decided to snuggle up and record this convo.
It is a quite different approach, having two rather than one speaking, and we intend to go much further into this partnership, as we’ve had such freeing up of our thinking-feeling-knowing since we started working this magical piece of earth in Molise. We have much to share!
The colder, wilder weather coming down, winter proper descending on this place, the wolves closing in, even... We are faced with multiple challenges that
require rather big actions and solutions. Not all of which we have resources or skills to resolve. This doesn’t get us down, particularly, but it does make us
stop and reflect – and podcasting is a great way of doing that.
We’re not really planners or investors in machinery and/ or big solutions: we rather focus on what we can do with what exists right now, and in that
sense we’re still observing the landscape we now own: every day there are still new things to see, smell taste, touch!
Our un-house appears to be even-less like a house also; there are multiple major leaks, and places where the instability is increasingly making itself known. This is all fuel for our fire: not the cement detritus, but the fact that the house is very much less than use-able, keeps us alert to where we need to study more, improve skills, and use our imaginations intelligently, to resolve each aspect. Everything has a solution, eventually, if we take the time to really muse on it.
At home (in the rental bothy) we are processing walnuts and olives – crates and buckets of them. And in our mindbodyspirits we are becoming strengthened, aligned, clearer minded (for the most part!!) The answers will come, if we allow them to settle down into us, rather than grasping tensely for
them!
I am super-inspired for winter closing in: though there is such a lot to do in terms of wood and fuel organisation, and bringing cut logs up from our land is effortful indeed, there are such beautiful moments of connection, purpose, liberation. We don’t have anything per se weighing on us – bar cutting lots
more wood, and getting things dry! - and we are able to actually take the time, more and more, to rest after working, rather than pushing through.
These are blessed times, blessed days – and you all Hive, Patreon, Nostr friends, buoy us with your donations of attention, encouragement and material funds.... We are greatly grateful, and excited about where we will be creating next!
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