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Since I’ve been living in Waipu, in rural New Zealand my world has shrunk and my reality has changed considerably.
Talk about the simple life, I am currently the epitome
of simplicity and loving it.
I know simplicity is a hot topic at present and I feel very trendy, however even if it wasn’t trendy I would go for it. Shrinking down life is fantastic and my reality is outrageous.
I have gained so much by letting go.
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Even at present when the whole world seems to be in turmoil and upset about one thing or another, I truck along in my beautiful world, loving every minute of it.
To arrive at a simple life is far from easy, at least it wasn’t for me.
It is the question; “Is there another way to do this?” that has kept me on the road to simple living.
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There is a debate in America about a Victory Garden at the White House.
Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardeners International has started a campaign to encourage the next President of the United States to grow a vegetable garden on the First Lawn.
This is not such a new idea; early presidents planted their own gardens as a matter of practicality.
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 John harvesting abundance.
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War gardens were encouraged during the First World War to combat potential food shortages and victory gardens sprouted up during the Second World War in response to food rationing and fuel shortages.
In 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt planted a victory garden in front of the White House to inspire millions of Americans to follow suit despite the opposition from the official Agriculture Department who deemed it unpatriotic.
By the time the war ended in 1945, 40 percent of all produce in the US was grown at home.
Could I say that her perseverance paid off and that she saved a lot of Americans from feeling lack, fear and helplessness.
In hard times she encouraged Americans to do something differently and with that encouragement she gave them power and nourishment for the body, soul and mind.
2009, what will you bring and 2008 what have you brought?
Let’s start with what 2008 has brought.
In December 2007 I sat on our beautiful beach on the Coromandel and declared that I wanted to eat flowers and live in a beautiful garden, a real Garden of Eden surrounded by bush and nature, inspired by the Ringing Cedar Books.
I even drew a picture.
John and I desired an online business that would allow us to live away from the city.
In the beginning of 2008 I had no idea how this was going to unfold.
I had no idea where to start looking and no idea how it all would work out.
And WOW . . . it happened as many of you would have read 
Here we are in our amazing garden eating as many ‘flowers’ as we can handle and steadily developing an online business.
How is that to see desire and intent unfold, just like that !
The Intenders of the Highest Good had these wise words this week;
It’s a strange predilection of mankind that we look for confirmation for our ailments. We look to see what happened to everybody else who has experienced similar symptoms to ours, and in doing so, we do ourselves a great disservice. What many people don’t realize is that just because somebody else developed a chronic condition after showing similar symptoms to ours doesn’t mean that we will do the same.
Oh, how I love having arrived in my Garden of Eden.
When I declared at the beginning of the year that I wanted to eat flowers and move from the city to a rural property with a bigger garden and a wonderful house, I had every intent to make that happen.
I was determined and very sure that that was what I wanted.
Even if it looked touch and go for a while when we didn’t sell our house; sure enough we did arrive at this current wonderful property, which we are now renting for one year.
It was one of the first times in my life that I so intentionally worked with intent and since then I have started to pay it more attention.
After once again reading the Carlos Castaneda books, I got to see even more that intent is the most important driver behind getting your desires happening.
In these series of books Carlos describes his time as an apprentice with a traditional ‘Man of Knowledge’, a Yaqui Indian, who is a hard task master and constantly points out that Carlos is hopelessly ineffective and very sloppy in his behaviors and actions.
He constantly hammers Carlos about unbending intent and powerful actions and he shows Carlos that actions without intent are wasteful and very seldom effective or very productive.
Intent, let alone unbending intent is not an easily understood concept, at least not by me and I got painfully aware of my lack of skills with intent this weekend.
Observing my thoughts is funny and I am glad I can do it without upset.
Intriguing where my thinking leads me and how important it is to be aware of the company I keep.
And I am so lucky with the people around me, my goldmines, my insulin.
As you can see I have been onserving what is going on and I compare it with ‘diabetes’, needing insulin; but this is ‘mental diabetes’.
I just read Seth Godin’s blog about ‘Why bother having a resume?’ and it is worthwhile sharing.
So here is my shortened version;
Top students at universities are applying for my internship.
Each of the applications just sends a resume. Sort of, “here are the facts about me, please put me in the pile.” There is no attempt at self marketing.
This is controversial, but here goes: I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all.
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