by admin | Jan 30, 2018 | Abundance, Angola, Capitalism, Gifts, Indigenous Beliefs, Permaculture
Abundance is an overused buzzword in the “self-improvement industry”. I’m guilty of overusing it. I had an idea in my head about what I meant by this, but recently had several embodied experiences of just exactly what abundance feels like in the...
by admin | Dec 14, 2017 | Angola, Capitalism, Farming, Freedom, Perfectionism, Permaculture
The events in Charlottesville, VA in August broke me open in a way I never expected. I’ve always seen my life as a journey of learning. Every challenge I’ve encountered has prompted reflection and learning. I like to think that all these learning...
by admin | Jun 27, 2017 | Acceptance, change, Perfectionism, Permaculture, Surrender
If you throw a peanut in the shell to a chicken, it will eat the shell whole, because it knows that it may get stolen if it doesn’t hurry. If you throw a peanut in a shell to a guinea hen, it will try to crack it open, and but probably get the peanut stolen by...
by admin | Apr 8, 2017 | Angola, Farming, Imperialism, learning, Patience, Perfectionism, Permaculture
After spending a few days in Luanda, we finally drove out to Uige yesterday and to the farm today! It was so exciting to get our hands in the dirt literally and feel like we were doing what I came here to do. So far, my general answer to anyone asking about what we...
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