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Frolina Petunia Is Coming Home!!!
In just 3 days I’m embarking on a long journey to my old desert home to bring back THE MOST PRIZED TRAVELLING KITTY IN ALL OF MARATHON TEXAS AND BEYOND!!! (more…)
Roust about
I need a jolt from a lightning bolt!
So an invite from Dragon arrived just in time. Time to let my hair tumble down, let off loads of pent up steam. Run around in the desert sun in flip flops, dance every bit of energy out of this frantic, aching, loving body all through the days and nights. We have only this one wild and precious life. There are beautiful people to meet and inspiring sights to see.
I’m pretty much out of cash but could work the site breakdown, be a rousty in exchange for entrance and camping. Would be the SWEETEST after-party!!! Hitting the hot springs before and after. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! Sleeping in hammocks, under the desert stars again. The desert, where I love to breathe, swim and heal.
Crap, ALL my summer clothes are in Marathon. Seriously, living out of a small suitcase is starting to lose its appeal when all I have is reminders of dreary crappy winter packed into it. I cant afford to jet set around the country to get my clothes before the festival. I can’t afford new clothes. I have flipflops, jeans, a bikini, and will have to hit the thrift stores in preparation. Fortunately you don’t need to wear much in the desert sun.
Oh this has to happen. I have to make it happen.
My First Month in Colorado
So… Initially I planned to meet Joseph and stay for about 2 weeks… yeah right, what was I thinking. It’s been exciting, destiny-altering, and even at times unsettling. Every day I wake up feeling quite a lot different from the last. No regrets.
I ran out of free space on Flickr, so again, here’s a facebook photo diary of my favourite moments and stuff from the last month. I’ll follow this up with a post some time on my impressions of life out here.
Big Bend Adventure
Finally! I have gone through all the photos of my 2 week adventure in Big Bend with Frank and Brett and whittled it down to a mere 83… I don’t have time to put this up on Flicker yet so here’s the link to the Facebook album:
(You’ll need to be a member of the Facebook community to access it)
Btw… if I don’t know you in some way, at least a little through this website, or if we’re not related via family or someone we both know, please dont add me as a friend. Im trying to keep Facebook legit and as unMySpacey as I can.
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In Transition
This year I plan to roadtrip as much as possible via CraigsList Ride Shares. All the pleasure of a roadtrip with none of the footprint guilt – that vehicle was going anyway, with my butt in it or not. Plus Id get to meet new people along the way and get hooked up with randomly awesome, unforseen scenarios that make a trip unforgettable. So when I found this guys site I was enthralled! He’s taking it the max. Well, max in that its a non-stop roadtrip. This is so easily doable, and so I am rubbing where my beardy beard would be and thinking about it…
LivingCraigslist
One mans mission to live in 3 cities for 3 months, using only craigslist.
Date: 2009-12-27, 6:30PM
America/Los_Angeles
“I am very much in a transitional stage. But then, my whole life is in limbo. Aside from living out of a suitcase and sleeping in three towns in four days, I have racked up 730-miles, stopping for bathrooms, of sort, food, coffee and sleep. Life is very much on the road.”
Catching My Tailspin
What’s up with that? Where do I get this INSANE sense of URGENCY from? I feel like I only have 2 years left or something. Oh these plans for the next two years keep going around and around in circles in my head, I freak out about when I’m going to get it all done, how I haven’t been back to Cape Town in 10 years, how I’m going to save up enough to do the Appalachian Trail next year, get access to a chiropractor to fix my back… Late last night I was online chatting to my best friend Joseph, going on and on about this and that, trying to figure out where I’m going to settle for a few months to grow my garden, how I’m going to schedule and plan my garden’s seasons around all my travel plans just for this year, knowing the garden needs to be more of a priority as it will pay for all this travel. And its my first garden so I need to focus on it but if it goes too long it could tie me down… blah blah… fret, worry blah. Brain fart.
He just listened for ages. Nothing seems to rush him into a fluster, not even when I’m freaking out. (more…)
Do what you love. Do what you love. Do what you LOVE!
2010 began like every year of my life will from here onwards – living in complete harmony with my values of life. Not doing anything to undermine them or living by someone else’s values again. When that happens it can only end in sadness or take you down a long road of complete life-wasting. This is why it is so important to me to remain single and free, and have friends until I am sure I have found the person who shares my same values in life, so that we can grow boundlessly together. I know that with the right person I would be taken further than I would imagine on my own, be challenged and motivated every day. But I am far FAR happier on my own than with the wrong person. I’m happy all the time!
I made a very difficult decision a few days ago, to let go of a four year dream of mine to thru-hike the 2,175 mile Appalachian Trail starting in March, to postpone it until 2011. (more…)
I'm here at the end of the road, which is the beginning of the road beyond time
What a privilege it has been to spend a week of full-on living, sharing open-heartedly 24 hours a day, with these two souls. Being challenged and awakened, tipping over all its goodness into the new year. My body feels supple and strong, my heart filled with the burning sun, my thoughts flexible, my mind more determined than ever before on what it is I need to do this year.
Today we hugged, gloriously, back-crackingly, and parted, each of us in new directions but burning with the same focussed motivation, flying speedily towards all the dreams we have only fantasised about for years and years.
And as Brett belted out into the mountains as we hiked on Christmas day,
“Now is the essence of my domain! and it contains
all that was and will be!
And I am as I was and will be because I am and always will be!”
~ Saul Williams
Yes! NOW is the essence of my DOMAIN! HYAH! HYAH! HYAH! Sha-Clack-Clack!
Be Free
I left for this adventure with a wide open heart, somehow instinctively knowing I would never forget it, for everything I would learn. Weeks before the trip I felt the rumble of thunder in the ache of my bones, knowing the experience would widen and shape me like a young canyon hit by a flash flood, stuck debris rocked from the foundations, ground into fine sand in moments that polished my edges and deepened new gorges before being carried away.
I was lucky in the first place to get to go on a journey like this, at this exact point in my life, with Brett. (more…)
Protect the Western Arctic Reserve From Big Oil
The Western Arctic Reserve, also known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, is the largest tract of unprotected, relatively pristine public land in the United States. The 23.5 million-acre reserve is home to imperiled polar bears, seabirds and one of the densest populations of nesting raptors in the world. Its shores and lagoons harbor beluga whales, seals, walruses and other marine mammals. The BLM is accepting comments on a planning document that sets the stage for oil and gas leasing in the western Arctic for decades to come. Help save this national treasure by telling the BLM to protect the Western Arctic Reserve from dirty fossil fuel development »
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