Life seems to be picking up speed, thankfully, in the direction of our dreams.
I re-branded another blog of mine, which had gone unused after its original purpose had been served. Namely, it was a space where I could unload thoughts and worries as I dealt with the AUD of my loved one. That's good news, right? Yes :) Spaceman hit his 6 month anniversary of being vodka and binge free and also navigated the anniversary of the passing of his brother with flying colors. We seem to be taking off from that adversary in ways that both heal and feel like rewards. It's amazing when two people each do their own inner work to eradicate troubles and heal wounds. And, it makes sense. We all have pasts that trail us from time to time. It's good to come together and tackle them as a team. :)
But what's better than even that????
Building a life together around the concept of Right Livelihood. I think I first heard that term back when I was reading the Conversations With God series. This is the concept of aligning one's way of earning a living with their Higher Self's purpose. Spaceman and I have a huge common bond between us where we both greatly value switching to a local food economy and living as sustainably as we can.
So we garden together. We put our hands in the dirt while listening to the birds and, generally, we spend a great deal of time outdoors together. Right now, that's a suburban backyard, or a nearby river (fishing!), but our big dream is to move to a more rural setting and set up a road-side produce stand, for starters.
The dream is much bigger than just that, but we try not to focus too much on the what or how just yet. We plan to let the Universe sort out the details, draw in the opportunities as we grow closer to actually implementing our plans. And with the most hindering of issues put firmly behind us, we are starting to feel the excitement of that future.
So I re-branded that website, which I loved the name of, towards gardening topics. It covers homesteading as well, things like food preservation for now. What I envision for that website is for it to follow us right into our move and through the establishment of our small farm and farm house. But for now, it's mostly my garden pictures and a few recipes made with our produce.
I'm finding the community well established over on Wordpress. In the way that people come by, comment, and follow, it's quite like my old Xanga days. Only, the community of Xanga was about spirituality and this one is more specific in nature. It's just what I want at this time. In fact, it's brought about one particular opportunity that seems to have jumped out of the woods at me!
It's a leap towards what we want to do with this blog. I say "we" because spaceman is 1000% on-board with an online presence for our small homestead life. We see it as a possible future residual income opportunity, if we can build up an audience. This will also help support our homesteading lifestyle when we get there. And, why not start NOW? Why wait? It makes far better sense to have as much of our learning curve, as much as our support system, up and running smoothly BEFORE we transition into that lifestyle, meaning: before the move. Because, let's face it: Moving to a potentially unimproved parcel of land will be HARD WORK tailoring it to our needs. If we can have as much of our life-transition, well, transitioned, before we head over there, then that's far less a scattered approach to it all and will help us keep our calm, keep our wits about ourselves, and hopefully even greater opportunities will be attracted in (think keeping vibes high/Law of Attraction).
And so, it is with this spirit of "Git R Done" that we started this gardening blog. It's really just me who writes it, but spaceman is ever interested and encourages me consistently. I stepped into that blog with these intentions and low and behold, my first "break" has already come about. A blog I visited returned the click through to my blog and has asked me for an interview! The topic is organic gardening, and she says she prefers to interview newby-ish gardeners because she finds many of her listeners (this will be an audio podcast) are also new to gardening and they need to hear the kinds of processes and follies that new gardeners face. Experts are great for researching things, but they often gloss over the lessons that failure teaches best.
So, I'm stepping cleanly outside my comfort zone and allowing myself to be recorded in an interview regarding our organic gardening experiences! I'm nervous, but I do think I will have enough to say. And worst case, if it turns out poorly, it's not a live interview and can be discarded. Therefore I am purposefully not mentioning who is doing the interviewing... until I know for sure it's a "go". At the very least, it's like a job interview, even a bad one is practice for having better ones in the future. And in the future, I am considering a even stronger online presence in the world of homesteading - so better get used to it, eh? :)
And that's my good news report for today. Hope your day is fantabulous!
