Good morning, its 12 June 2018, and I am settling into my new country cottage just outside Hoekwil on the Garden Route. I arrived a week ago and it has been so amazing to just take my time to settle, enjoy the stars, the birds, the air and the views. I feel like I am finding my roots again and it feels good to be home.
One of the things I have been considering is the concept of friends and family and how, having no family in SA, and very little around the world, my friends have always played an important and integral role in my life. In fact, from a very young age, I resonated and connected far better with my friends than I ever did with my immediate family. I always felt like I never really belonged to the people that birthed and raised me. I felt a deeper belonging to other people in my life, both adults and children and I think friends is not enough of a word to describe them. The word tribe comes to mind, and there is a connection with my ancestry that I feel is more my tribe, so I decided that my family tree is filled with people who I see as my clan. They are scattered all over the world, and often play different roles in my life, but the commonality that we share is love for each other and deep connection which is sacred and I want to honour. And coming home to the Garden Route feels like I have stepped in the warm arms of many of my clan.
This blog began when I started my sacred adventure in 2012, and I believe that that sacred adventure is continuing, and so I am wanting to continue with this blog as my life unfolds and grounds here on the Garden Route. With each step, I take to create my envisioned life and become more and more the wise elder serving my journey, my clients, my community, Mother Earth and the collective. It's such a strong calling for me and it is so wonderful to have the opportunity to be here and to share my journey as my work and my life unfolds. I feel that by sharing here and continuing to write this blog, I am accountable to myself and hope that my words inspire those who read them. It is helping me to allow my writing to flow, in preparing for the books that I am hoping to write about my life and my work. Sharing the legacy that I want to leave as an inspiration for those who are still to come, the many leaves on my family tree.
This post then is to rekindle the sharing of my adventure, to offer deep gratitude to my clan, and to make a commitment to send out a weekly update on life on the Garden Route from the perspective a practicing Wise Elder-to-Be. Until next time, be always blessed xx
One of the things I have been considering is the concept of friends and family and how, having no family in SA, and very little around the world, my friends have always played an important and integral role in my life. In fact, from a very young age, I resonated and connected far better with my friends than I ever did with my immediate family. I always felt like I never really belonged to the people that birthed and raised me. I felt a deeper belonging to other people in my life, both adults and children and I think friends is not enough of a word to describe them. The word tribe comes to mind, and there is a connection with my ancestry that I feel is more my tribe, so I decided that my family tree is filled with people who I see as my clan. They are scattered all over the world, and often play different roles in my life, but the commonality that we share is love for each other and deep connection which is sacred and I want to honour. And coming home to the Garden Route feels like I have stepped in the warm arms of many of my clan.
This blog began when I started my sacred adventure in 2012, and I believe that that sacred adventure is continuing, and so I am wanting to continue with this blog as my life unfolds and grounds here on the Garden Route. With each step, I take to create my envisioned life and become more and more the wise elder serving my journey, my clients, my community, Mother Earth and the collective. It's such a strong calling for me and it is so wonderful to have the opportunity to be here and to share my journey as my work and my life unfolds. I feel that by sharing here and continuing to write this blog, I am accountable to myself and hope that my words inspire those who read them. It is helping me to allow my writing to flow, in preparing for the books that I am hoping to write about my life and my work. Sharing the legacy that I want to leave as an inspiration for those who are still to come, the many leaves on my family tree.
This post then is to rekindle the sharing of my adventure, to offer deep gratitude to my clan, and to make a commitment to send out a weekly update on life on the Garden Route from the perspective a practicing Wise Elder-to-Be. Until next time, be always blessed xx
