This post is so lovely, it really echoed through me with such familiarity. I often think about all the pieces that needed to be woven together to help guide us.

It's funny as well, yesterday I dug out my old box of memories (to find that slightly terrifying real fur koala bear for @riverflows) and I fell into the contents reading my old essays, poems, letters and journals. It was interesting to reflect on the young girl (especially now that in am in my early 40's eeek!!)

I found myself thinking "if only I had known what I wanted sooner" because even ten years ago it seemed as though we had all the time in the word to figure out that thing that was calling to us.

but now, with deaths, with ageing parents, with a grown child, and days that pass far too quickly, I am being shown how truly precious our time here is. I am greedy and want as much time as I can grab onto because I have such a thirst to see, do and experience so much ...I know I could spend my life and know know every plant that grows on the land around me.

There are days where things are particularly challenging or frustrating where I wonder how much easier it would have been to just keep going with the flow, and living that simple, well paved life but that never sticks around for too long because we only have to open that front door to fall back into a mindset of awe and appreciation.

You said everything so beautifully in this post and this really is what it all comes down to for my husband and I.

While this lifestyle isn't for everyone, the earth is. Our connection with the earth matters.