Things I am currently very excited about:
Moving to Bristol! (This I am occasionally also terrified about..) There is so much going on there, and it's a hugely different experience for me to move to a place where I actually know people! And very wonderful people at that. Many of them don't work full time (phew) but do lots of bits and pieces - campaigning, cleaning, baking, gigging, life modelling, market stalls, etc. It really feels like a place for big environmental and social change, skillsharing, freeconomy, music, creativity, support...
and if it all goes pearshaped I can move to Radford Mill Farm, live in an old bus and grow vegetables.
Living Alone: For the first few weeks, I'll be looking after a gorgeous little flat right in Stokes Croft / Montpelier, across the road from friends, and a wonderful wholefoods store. So another new experience, I get to see if how I cope without having to sign a lease! How to go from cooking for 15, to one?
Buddhafield Cafe and Festival. After the festival season I felt a gargantuan slump in enthusiasm ('please, please don't make me tat-down this godforsaken cafe ever again...'), but talking about all the possibilities and taking on some responsibility feels pretty good. It's inspiring to think about the rituals and site decor for next year's festival and ways to get people excited about it again. It really is such an incredible festival! So much togetherness, dancing, music and workshops.
Learning! This just seems to be a period of growth not just for me but many of us, and I am learning so much about so many things. The bits that excite me the most are the old traditional crafts and 'self-sufficient' stuff, it just feels so right to be learning them and especially the doing part puts me on a high. I'm learning how to learn as well, that's important! In the past I hadn't the courage or the patience. At the moment I'm reading a wonderful book called 'How Music Works', and one on Crochet which I am reading word for word in order so I won't be overwhelmed by the pattern language. I want to learn to preserve food, green woodworking, basic carpentry, bicycle maintenance, knitting, carding / spinning, welding, songwriting... And I feel like I will! I just need to set myself goals for each year.
Travel: It may take a while in the planning, but I want to travel overland, through India, to New Zealand. I get fidgety and ecstatic just thinking about it...
Next Summer... Ah yes. Bring back the festival season, and bring all those wondrous folk back together again :)
1 comment:
I want to say I like your plans Darl. I love knowing you are positive and feeling good. We have 2 x plum trees. One in Bonzai bag to restrict height (perfect for townhouse garden and not cruel to tree) It still grows and produces fruit etc but not so much I won't have room for it. And one Apricot ditto. Vege garden in, raspberries looking good and looking for blueberry bush and goosegog also. Gives me a real buzz.
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