Day 44 - Homestead (Part 1)

 Day 44 - Homestead (Part 1)

Note - Each of these blogs can be read individually, or in order. Its suggested to read them out loud, it will have 1000x the benefit. 

Yesterday I had a full day. One of those days where every moment I was applying myself from the moment I woke up to the moment my head hit the pillow to fall asleep.

A part of this was we were invited to our neighbors homestead. They do full on production of milk, eggs, gardening, orchards and have a farm store.

Jessica and I have our homestead but its not on this scale, nor is this scale our goal

We focus on the educational component of everything, helping people understand where their food comes from, and how to get grounded in physical reality through helping create a phenomenal place in alignment with nature.

We are not hardcore homesteaders. Yet the appeal is there and its fun to see what we can create. For example my wife makes sourdough bread, we have our neighbors cows on our pasture, next year we plan to have a milking cow to two. We have had ducks, turkeys, chickens. We have 20+ fruit trees and bushes. We are learning how to harvest reishi mushrooms. We have hosted hundreds if not over 1000 people already in the past 4 years. We have the wraparound porch, the view, the whole nice thing that everyone on Instagram wants. And i'll tell you... if it wasn't for this journey to life, of me learning how to change my self for real, and my PURPOSE, all of this would be missing the point.

The reason we have the homestead is to serve as a place that helps bring people together, to learn to be grounded in reality, and to educate the adults but ESPECIALLY the kids in how one can live. 

And with this.. I have had to develop massively.

Its all surrounding this word homestead which is worthy of pulling apart

Home is where you live. That's obvious. 

Stead is less obvious.

So the homestead is the living place that has a PURPOSE.

And with this I have had to let go of a lot of BS programming, let go of all my excuses, and learn how to really take this on to be a life-giving place for myself, my family, for our community and ultimately for the world.

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to react to city-life as a child and in this reaction desire for more space, thus fueling my desire to homestead

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to react to the pollution within cities, from the trash to the sound and everything that was distracting 'noise' that was separating me from nature, within this I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to love the city life and feel affinity for the high energy lifestyle of living downtown in cities for years

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to react to where I live and not realize that no matter where I am if I am walking forward with purpose, aligned my life within principle, I can make the most of wherever I live. Where I live isn't the cause, I am the cause, and I can use the power of environment and location to create the best outcomes because I am clear on who I am within it all

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to hold the positive image of homestead in my mind, believing that magically if I have more space, more land, more animals and plants around me, that my life will be more abundant and that means I will feel happier

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to not realize that in order to sustain the abundance and make it life-giving, it requires serious dedication to changing myself, to education, to building community, and taking responsibility

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed msyelf to believe that if I buy chickens and seeds for food that somehow it is like 'free money' and 'free food' not realizing that everything in the homestead requires inputs

I forgive myself that i had not accepted and allowed myself to realize understanding inputs and outputs is essential to homesteading AND to life overall

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to not realize what now seems so obvious... that water and sunlight are two resources that are essential inputs, that when properly assessed can be life-giving and support over-production and without the education required to understand the sufficient amounts (or when these inputs are lacking) just how fragile an ecosystem can be

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to not realize that reality is physical, and there is a phenomenal emergent property when one is grounded, equal and one with the physical, yet the whole 'wishing' and 'hoping' strategy does not work, reality and nature do not care your hopes and dreams... reality must be worked with point by point, understood and then one unlocks the abundance that is here

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to not realize the value of the difficult and challenges, where something unexpected comes up. 

I realize complaining doesn't help ever

I realize that there are 2 modes of being in homestead life, beast mode or bitch mode. Beast mode works. Bitch mode gets your more consequence accumulation.

I realize that  the more I do the more I realize I can do

I realize that my STEAD is my place of purpose, and the purpose of our homestead is to educate and bring people together, when this is clear and unified within myself, my wife and my kids, our home is thriving

I realize that as I take responsibility for what is here as our land, this helps people appreciate where they are at. - There is a nasty trend where people see the image online of 'moving to florida' or 'traveling the world' and they think its 'easier' to just uproot and leave... meanwhile its the same exact pattern as when someone hops from one relationship to another. They miss out on the depth and trust that is built over time while in agreement. And I commit myself to have our homestead be an example of what it looks like to have roots and commitment on ongoing effort poured into a home and ecosystem and community, because this is something that has a value that is impossible to see anywhere else especially in our fast-paced culture, this is a stand to change what is the accepted norm.

More continued tomorrow