We'll Do It All
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It didn’t really matter that others couldn’t feel the vision deeply enough to try it on for size. With no attachment to creating community or bringing others into the mix, Quinn and I combined our powers and started living it.
I was already super familiar with living simply as that is how I grew up, so all the things Quinn wanted to implement were super inspiring to me--very earthy and holistic! We began laying a sustainable foundation.
- We gathered free doors, tires, logs and fence panels for making raised beds.
- We combed through the neighborhoods on trash day and filled our trailer with loads of bagged leaves,
and made deals with the farmer’s markets, family owned stores, feed stores, horse stables, coffee shops and breweries to pick up their waste for our compost pile. We participated in master composting classes at the City and helped with their composting operation.
- We gathered free rocks, bricks, bottles, tires, doors, windows, and lumber for our building projects.
- We acquired free cardboard from the dumpsters and free mulch from tree companies to make pathways and for use in our garden.
- We got some free worms from our neighbors to begin our worm farm.
- We made runs for, or were delivered, free wood for our wood burning stove to heat the house, heat our water, do our cooking and heat bricks for taking into our cold bed at night.
- We picked up free sawdust from a neighboring business for use in our hand-built composting toilets.
- We dug up bamboo from existing patches in other people’s yards to plant on our own living fence on the perimeter of our property.
- We planted blackberry bushes, fig trees, and pomegranates to add to our existing edible pecans, hackberries, white and black mulberries, and peach trees.
- We started our herbs and vegetable crops from seeds we acquired from seeds trades and other gardener friends.
- We began our collection of vintage and gently used clothing, jewelry and other epic treasures for our boutique.
- We utilized our finely honed culinary skills to catered high-vibe foods we prepared from our increasingly prolific garden.
- We acquired an amazing set of Tibetan Bowls which I mostly played together with Quinn’s meditative didgeridoo vibrations, giving sound healing therapy throughout the metroplex.
- Of course we continued to hone our massage skills by massaging each other everyday.
- I began videoing Quinn while he shared his sustainable solutions on youtube.
We were still staying mostly at home alone together or with my kids, though we made trips to gather our supplies and do a few things out in the greater community. We invested our full selves into creating a sustainable sacred space of our own design--peacefully, blissfully, and productively living with passion.
Even that which I had grown to know in my childhood was being upgraded. Coming back to a sustainable life really moved me as it brought me back to my roots which really spoke to my soul.
Though I was immersed in the ease and excitement of creating life anew, I recall moments of questioning. For example...I had already been gardening most of my life, so had a pretty good grip on my connection with nature and growing food. Quinn had ideas that were foreign to me, and in some instances actually felt counter to what my experience had been. There were times when I wanted to tell Quinn that things just don’t work that way because my experience dictates differently, and that he should be following my example on this particular occasion. But I learned very quickly early on that Quinn had extraordinary ideas on almost every subject, and even if he didn’t know something already, he would soon know, and quickly surpass any limitations. Quinn wasn’t one to follow hearsay, so wanted to test things out for himself, which led him to “know”, not just to take someone else’s word for it. His way of expanding himself
inspired me to see that I too would be wise to question and experiment for myself.
I tuned into all of the things that I was already learning from Quinn and how he always brought forth new perspective. My challenge was to find the balance in applying my experience and awareness, and yet still being completely open to new ideas, and being willing to change to embrace greater potential.
I’m grateful that I kept quiet and listened, and that I didn’t get stuck in an “I know better than you” mindset. My eyes were continuously opened, and my world continuously upgraded in nearly every area of my life Both of us being open to the other made for a super harmonious relationship. Not only did we not argue, but we took the best of both of our worlds and combined them to amplify energy moving in the same direction.
It can be difficult when ones standing beliefs are challenged, especially when they are backed by years of experience, and traditions that validate that we are on the “right” path just like everyone else. Through my years I’ve noticed how much conflict comes from trying to prove we are “right” and someone else is “wrong”. When we realize there is no real “right” or “wrong”, but that we are all coming from a limited perspective, deeper understanding and upgrades can be had. Assuming and insisting that we already have the answers keeps us from letting in new information. We could instead choose to show up in curiosity and wonder.
Go with me on the journey toward Unconditional Love!
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