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Expanding the self, over land and through the mind Upcoming Bookš: @insearchoffreedombook
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Today is my birthday. I am in a thicket of thick eastern wood, where the tree frogs are singing in chorus and the Louisiana wood thrush has just arrived to prance on the creek side clay.
Sometimes I like to be alone on my birthday, to reflect on this miracle of being. Today, I am a woodlands hermit and in the canopy of green, I am rejoicing in this life I was given in all its green splendor.
šø: @jrswitchgrass
27 Apr 2024
Welcome to a work day in my studio on wheels. Iām sipping way too much coffee and creating custom text for my upcoming book @insearchoffreedombook āØ
Making money on the road has been an evolution for JR and me. When we first started traveling, 100% of our income came from migrant labor and seasonal work we picked up along the way.
Over time, art took over, and miracle of miraclesāit began to fund our travels. Now we have the pleasure and privilege of creating handmade art and published books and zines from inside Sunshine.
We still work on farms and pick up odd jobs as needed, but many of our days look like this, something that younger me would be so shocked, and so proud to hear. āØ
Camp spot courtesy of @surfoutpost
28 Mar 2024
Sometimes the emptiness of the open road is liberating.
But sometimes itās overwhelming, too.
You can go anywhere, be anybody, do anything you pleaseāand the truth is stark and bare: no oneās making the choice but you.
The possibilities glimmer like glass in the midday sun.
Mountains ahead. The road is a pin-straight line. Action is imminent. A decision must be made.
It is in those moments that you must not hesitate. You must step into your inner knowing and run, run, run, run. No space for indecision, not a moment to look back, just Movement Towards.
There is nowhere to go but forward, to the set of glimmering possibilities.
They are choice, they will be your Destiny.
20 Mar 2024
We soak in hot springs through the winter months.
They comfort us in the cold and cradle us when our spirits are heavy.
Under wide, hollow skies, in frost and snow and steamā
Bathtime becomes sacrament in the wild. āØ #alwaysgoswimming
PSāwe rarely bring š into remote spots. Everyone all right with it?
17 Mar 2024
I thought, once, that I would āgrow up,ā that I would fish a āLife Planā from the deep waters of life. I thought I would know where I was going, that there would be some ultimate path leading to some Overlook of Destiny. But that is not the case.
As it always is on the road, I have not a clue what is next, where life will lead. The snows of winter melt into drinking water for spring flower, and I have no true plans set out for the rest of the year, no expectations, no clear destinations in mind. I only have the next padded step forward, then the next, then the next. I walk forward with hope and believe that Destiny is leading me somewhere gorgeous. So far it has, in the end, every time.
12 Mar 2024
Whoever says you need a big house to be happy has never stood at the feet of the mountains with everything they own and thought to themselves āthis...this is enough.ā
#vanlife #homeiswhereyouparkit
05 Mar 2024
We hiked to the springs from camp.
Sunrise. Not a human soul to be found that time of day.
Instead, there were small sparrows that whistled in the grasses and a raven that heckled from a tree.
I stood beside the warm bubbly water, in nothing, like the bygone days of Eden. I lowered myself in.
I was just the way I was in my motherās womb. Just like the small fish swimming in the creek below.
Yes, Iāll say it with certainty, straight from the springs. We are wild as all that. Sometimes we just need to return to our roots to remember. #alwaysgoswimming
04 Mar 2024
Little coffee moment in my home on wheels. āļø
I like to ease into my days gently, with slow rituals that calm the mind. Honestly, my mind can have a mind of its own in the early hours of the day.
Stretching, hygiene, coffee, and journaling settle me, little moments of grounding calm before the movement of the road ahead.
02 Mar 2024
Iāve learned more on the road than in 16 years of schooling combined, glimmers of truth and stark moments of suffered understanding that you simply donāt experience in classrooms, or books, or documentaries.
Some of the greatest lessons are learned without a word being spoken. āØ
29 Feb 2024
Iām reading Leo Tolstoy at his saddest, because itās in these last few weeks of winter that Iām at my saddest, too.
Not that Iām without hope. I know the days are stretching out longer and thicker. I know, you donāt have to remind me, that the sun will return from South America and it will dry out the wet rains that have saturated every dirt road.
āIf there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself,ā writes Tolstoy in this book, which proves that even at his saddest, he has hope too.
If the depths of winter are what we must endure to know ourselves and our limits, itās worth it. Thatās what Iām telling myself on this wet, windy last-of-February day, anyway. #pagesandmiles #orangeisoptimism
28 Feb 2024
The open road has saved me, so many times over.
It has sheltered me from a reality I could never accept, and introduced me to alternate realities I could never have imagined.
It has broken my pride and built my confidence.
It has taught me that nothing lasts, but everything matters, in its own right.
I owe who I am to the road. It has healed me from who I thought I was and introduced me to all the multitudes of beings I could possibly be.
27 Feb 2024
Trying to stay strong through the rest of winter, but feeling like a grizzly mountain hermit on her last frozen straw.
It has been a long one, cold, lots of storms and wind and wet, and when youāre a dwelling in a VW bus with a piece of canvas for a bedroom wall, letās just say that spring on the horizon is my hope, my light, my motivation. The February grumps have got to go.
26 Feb 2024
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