OUR JOURNEY BEGINS

We were cold and naked when we came out of the water - from the very depths of the emotional ocean. A lot of clutter was washed away and we could sense our bones shining through the skin.

Was this the end? - No!

We were assured it was only the beginning as a fire was prepared for us. A nice fire to warm our cold bones. We stepped into the fire and it was a gentle fire. Slowly and gently it burned us to ashes - nothing else was left. We were no more who we were before. We crawled out from the ashes, grabbed each others hands and looked around the world in wonder. We were like new borne, no old habits to cling on to, no old thought patterns, no old behavior, no old nothing.

We were new and would have to find out how to live and be in this world that unfolded in front of us. Still holding hands we took the first stumbling steps. We looked at each other and laughed. Laughed to all the beauty we saw in front of us, laughed to our own clumsiness. We just laughed and laughed. Where to go, what to do, how to do - there was nothing preset - we could do whatever we wanted. We laughed at that too.

Both of us had earlier worked with counseling - and given many people good advice about what to do in all sorts of situations.

We realized that we had put ourselves in a place where we would have to live our truth - just like we had been telling other people to do.

We were ready to meet a new way of living.

We took the first stumbling steps into the adventure called life - excited and laughing.

THE FOUNDATION IS LAID

Before we could start to walk again - in a new direction, we had to look deep inside ourselves. We had to find our values - what was important to us. We knew that we could not compromise the deep thing known as our truth - but we didn’t know exactly what that meant to us.

A word kept turning up;   simplicity!

It resonated well inside our hearts and we looked around to find simplicity. We started with the basics - our food! - and we both felt the need to go “back to the basics” and start growing our own food. In that way we would really learn about life again - from scratch!

We wanted to do natural things - we were not ready for the world of the
human mind.

Simple and natural
Honest and true

These words represented our foundation and we felt their beauty.

We found a house to live in and we started to dig the garden.

It was spring and we had visions of tons of potatoes, tomatoes, beans and cabbage.

Our foundation was in place.

FAILURE - WHAT TO DO?

Summer approached. Only few seeds germinated. We had to buy corn and cabbage seedlings - wauww! they looked good in the empty patch.
We really like potatoes and had dug up a huge patch for the 281 seed potatoes we had bought.
Every morning and every evening we went on a garden tour to see to our precious crop. We looked and looked .... and looked again.

When is the time to give up?

When Midsummer came up we only had 7 potato plants visible. Our rows of corn gave us the full pleasure of 4 small cobs for nibbling. Our beetroots never grew to more than walnut size. Our beans and peas looked like they had lost hope.
Our onions ..... we never saw one develop. It was summer, life felt beautiful - how could we give up.
We dug up all the potatoes - most of them slimy and rotten, went to buy more seedlings and a new sack of seed potatoes. Everything was put in the ground - and there was no end to our optimism!

That was Midsummer!

A few weeks later entering the last part of summer found us talking to our garden in order to find out what went wrong. Because it did go wrong - the result of our pride, our vege garden, was poor.

Total failure!

But we had learned a lot, and we felt on more stable ground.
We knew we were walking the right path. We knew that we couldn’t compromise on the food we eat. And we knew that we would not be able to feed ourselves with veges from our garden.
So we simply had to locate alternative sources...... Simply?????

GROWING AWARENESS

When we came out from the fire it was really like every thing had burned away.
A total transformation. Like the bird of Phoenix we came out as new beings - with only vague memories of what was before. Going down the road to buy the good and natural food we needed turned out to be a frustrating trip.
 
We don’t give up easily.

However, after a persistent effort through many weeks, we once again had to give up - facing one more failure! This time it wasn’t our failure; this time we faced a failure belonging to all of us, to our country. How did we reach a point where food to be bought could no more be trusted as food? What we saw was aisle after aisle with chemicals, preservatives, colorings, bulking agents, numbers [they say it is to make it easier for us], - and long lists of what is not contained in the food.
We found that even food labeled as natural - has hardly ever seen the world outside the bolted doors to the chemical factories. They are of course bolted for our safety!

We found the same had happened to skin care products. We found that what ever we would buy to feed ourselves - through mouth or skin - would be unnatural. There has never been a wider selections of items to buy - and they have never been more alien.

We found it had happened to our “systems” too. We found unnatural behavior communicating with authorities and businesses. We found that the more we separate ourselves from nature, the more we separate ourselves from each other.

Our world becomes a maze - a maze of functional chemistry.
We won’t accept that for us - we have chosen another path, a peaceful path - the path of natural beauty.

BACK ON TRACK

What to do?? - our big question after the failures.

We knew words wouldn’t help a lot on bodies longing for natural food - and trying to save the world on an empty stomach has never done any good to anyone.

We decided to forget about the “systems”, forget about retail outlets that would only feed us with words full of silly excuses for why we can’t buy natural and normal goods.

We need food, not words and scientifically proven laboratory results.

Once we decided to bypass all the normal ways of getting food, we actually succeeded.

We found sources!
We found success!
We found food!

It took a lot of hard work and a lot of creativity - and it was worth it!

We were not as successful finding skin care products and ended up making our own.

We decided to offer them to other people who like us wanted natural products, and we soon started a production of natural body care.

OUR JOURNEY CONTINUES

It is a happy time for us - we have shown that it can be done.
We have sourced many things - we get deliveries of beautiful organic, unhomogenised milk, organic butter - with a normal shelf life at 12 weeks unlike the 1 to 2 year old “normal” butter, organic free range eggs, real raw sugar, real flour, most of our groceries ....
We get the good stuff we wanted and it is such a joy cutting our own bread baked from only natural ingredients - not to mention the
ice cream!!!

Our vege garden is growing by the hour - it is amazingly beautiful. Potatoes in abundance, onions, leeks, beans, corn .... and all the rest. It is all growing. There is power in the ground now!

Our range of body care has expanded. We have opened a massage and healing clinic. We have started workshops. Our chakra jewellery and healing wands which we had to put on hold for a while when we were busy sourcing the foundation of it all - our food - have come to life again meeting quite some interest.

Where our journey is taking us ? - we don’t know.
 
All we know is that we will not suppress our true and natural way of living and way of doing.

OUR INSIGHTS - OUR DREAMS

Our planet is not dying - we are!

Our beautiful planet will still be here when we are gone. We are the endangered species because of our own doings. What we think we do to the planet - we do to ourselves. We cannot save the planet as a natural habitat for mankind by saving the planet. It is an externalizing, trying to get rid of the symptoms instead of healing the root.

The very root is inside each and every one of us. What we can do is to love, care and respect ourselves. This is a way to return to our natural state of balance where we listen to our body and give it what it needs - instead of filling it with rubbish sold to us by clever manipulation. We need to be aware of every step we take, of every choice we make, asking the question again and again, “is this choice of mine the best I can do for myself and others?” “is it in balance with what I know deep inside?”

We would love to see an old and outdated thing reinvented - it used to be called common sense.

Common sense ruled before the experts came to power - and it is still around somewhere in the depths of our core - because it is not of our creation.

And if anyone is interested in joining our “food wagon” we will be happy to share information and freight.

NO BEGINNING NO END - ONLY THE JOURNEY.............