The beginning of our first bus home…
October 6, 2011 — organicmel
My partner Grant has previously owned and renovated a bus into a liveable space rather than its former commercial role. He is also a cabinet maker/builder by trade, so renovating buses really brings out his skill and artistry. The bus began with a dream, neither of us having a truck licence, driving them was always going to be a problem. While on our journey doing something else, the seed was planted in our brains to drive trucks, work in the mines, earn money quickly. Thankfully the idea never came to fruition, because I always struggled with the fact that mining – of any kind – is not kind to the planet. However out of that initial thought we got our truck licences, are currently employed as drivers and can drive buses…. So the hunt began to fulfil part of Grant’s dream, and progressed us along the journey to the farm. So here are the beginning photos of our bus….:)
The old school bus we started with…
Me learning to use an angle grinder, out with the old…
Almost empty, except the we are also currently living in it…
The boudoir – temporarily.
This rocked my socks today…
August 20, 2010 — organicmelI wrote this on fb after hearing this music/sound…
If I die tomorrow this is what I want played at my funeral. This is the musical theme of my life. My life thus far is a constant cycle through the meanings of the chakras. Currently I am third eye focused and allowing it to fill me up. I have fought this a long time thinking it was a manic side of me. This isn’t manic its connected. We humans have stopped allowing each other to react in our purest form. We are emotional beings and have evolved to express such emotional diversity for a reason. The act of emotional expression is not allowed the free expression it used to possess.
We lived in small family/community groups where everyone you ever saw was someone who knew you intimately, loved you dearly, and would give up their life for you in a heart beat. We don’t have the same intimacy now, the same connectedness, privacy or safety as when we lived more primative lives.
We are fearful, distant, paranoid, and untrusting.
Because we have lost ourselves.
The one thing you can do for yourself in this life is work on your own internal energy and get that right. Thats why I love this music. It starts at the base chakra and works its way up, building you up emotionally and energetically as it goes.
The amazing privilage when nature comes to you…
August 19, 2010 — organicmel
As we arrived in the car the two Black Swans and their chicks exited the water and walked toward us, following us to the picnic table. There were others already around us, but they seemed to pick us out.
The male Swan came right up to our table and bought his chicks with him. What an amazing feeling and such trust!
We of course didn’t feed them which is what I’m sure they were expecting. When they didn’t get fed they went back into the water where they had been when we arrived. We felt blessed.
