A glorious basket-full of 'bietole' or spontaneous greens, like a giant spinach or chard, which grow here and there in the less-tended parts of the gardens below Guardia Sanframondi's medieval quarter.... Very grateful to have this abundance of nutriment to harvest, bags of it filling my frigo 😍💝
These leaves, and how I gather them, are a powerful metaphor for my beginning to earn a valid independent income through Hive and crypto.
It is not about having a big field of infinite spinach, cultivated by enslaved labourers, doused in chemicals, packaged in plastic and shipped from far away - which is how our money gets to us, our green-backs.
Foraging is about taking just how much we need to enjoy enormously and provide us with nutriment, whilst retaining our sweat equity engagement with Nature in the Now, and respecting the myriad forms of Life and their (and our!) complex interdependence.
Decentralised Living feels like this, and crypto seems to align, in my experience, more with this than other forms of income, like fiat currency.
On a decentralised platform, I'm being 'paid' in micro-quantities by a large body of good folks who have similar values and intentions to me. I'm not depending on a dark and distorted system, which makes everyone suffer, but am liberating my time, attention and intention to truly create in the moment - so All Things Can Come Into Harmony and Well-Being again!