Day 45 - Homestead Part 2

Continued from yesterday

Note - read the self-forgiveness out loud its 100x more effective

Sunsets from our porch

Random strawberries that started growing 2 years ago

The best part - THE COMMUNITY EVENTS! 

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to not question our system of land ownership and property rights, thus making myself feel inferior to the entire system while owning a home

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed this system to be a perpetual debt-based system where even when I own property I still need to pay property taxes every year

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to desire to go off-grid and say 'fuck the system' not realizing that even if I could pull that off, I know that its just selfish and it wouldn't be fulfilling because the rest of the world needs me

I forgive myself that I had accepted and allowed myself to hold the belief that farming/growing my own food is easy

I forgive myself that i had not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the easier path IS convenience, but ultimately because of the way consequence unfolds - convenience becomes harder, while leveling up my responsibility becomes easier - and what better way to explain this to my self then looking at my home environment where I dwell to show me in my face every day - am I accumulating responsibility? or am I accumulating consequence from convenience

I forgive myself that I had not accepted and allowed myself to realize that the purpose of where I live is to be an environment that is life giving for myself and for my community - and the more this is honored within myself and within our community, the more stable nodes of the network there are that can represent the change of the system - this is the vision of the bigger goal

I realize that homesteading is wonderful education

I realize that homesteading is a teacher for me to appreciate nature, the seasons and learning to plan ahead

I realize that raising my children within a homestead environment has immense value - like teaching my kids to naturally think in longer time horizons, where if we want food we have to grow it, care for it and it takes years to have an orchard, and months to have a harvest of food yet its WORTH it because its a grounding physical action, both body-food and LIFE-good as the experience of learning this skillset

I realize that the more physical I am the more grounded in reality I am the more me as Life shows up

I commit myself to create the best events on our homestead

I commit myself to support others who desire to homestead to be aware of what it takes as an undertaking

I commit myself to use our property to be my stead - my place that I am responsible for that is my purpose as PART of the overall purpose where I am here to change the world

I commit myself to be proactive with each step where every time I do a chore or take an action, I get ahead on the projects and to not allow any backchat, rather enjoying what is possible when I am here as my breath equal and one my creative power is something I am still seeing I have barely begun to tap, let's see what I'm really made of, and what this place can really be

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