Going with the flow - when life takes another turn

The ebb current is the flow of tidal water as it rushes out to sea and the flood current is the flow of water as it rushes onto the land.  While tides ebb and flood twice a day, we also experience the expansion and contraction forces during periods of our lives.  This is how nature works and if we don't find a way to go with the flow, we could find ourselves swept out to sea.

My wife and I are now at the point where we flooded our lives in order to raise our children and look after Carey's mom.  With the boys gone we find that we don't need all the resources we have.  So we are confronted with making some significant choices as the two of us can no longer keep up with all the infrastructure we built or all the animals either.

We also find ourselves not feeling free yet.  It may sound strange to most people, but despite all the efforts we made to be free, we still feel some areas of our lives are still very restricting, requiring significant modifications.  As we work on our freedom, our desire to be free continues to grow stronger and stronger.  Our capacity to see the violence towards us and others continues to grow on a daily basis.  It is astounding how 15 years of effort working towards freedom has shown just how deeply ingrained our slavery actually was.  When we made the move onto the land we felt 'free'.  

Then our eyes opened even more.  

The slavery from the state was difficult to see and unwind from.  But the slavery that was even more insidious was actually that which was imposed on us by other slaves.  People who do not comprehend what we do, engage in abusive behaviours to try and keep us from moving forward with our plans.  We are prepared to walk away from the land that we have stewarded for over a decade to make this change.  We feel we are ready to make a stand against the state and others regarding this land.  If they resort to violence then our plans allow for us to go mobile and travel as we help others.  If we successfully and peacefully defend this land from the colonizers, then we will have found a way to break the bonds of those last few relationships that continue to enslave us.

We were held back from these kinds of drastic measures as we had dependents.  We did not want to take risks that would jeopardize our ability to look after our two boys.  They have both grown up and moved away from home and we will soon have no more dependents.  That opens up the possibilities to take risks that we would not normally take.  

While we take this drastic shift in life, we will be doing a lot of down sizing.  While most people start to enjoy the wealth that they accumulated in their life, we decided to take a different path.  Over the next 10 - 12 months, I will blog about our journey as we build a tiny home and prepare for the next phase of our lives as we work hard to cut the last remaining ties we have to those who feel compelled to enslave us through their violence, blindness and entitlement.  

To the Stewards of Terra Mater

I pray that my support has helped all of you find the inspiration, publicity and steem to move your blogging careers forward on this platform.  I am very proud of the progress that many of you have made.  In order for me to make these changes, I need the steem that I've accumulated over the last 10 months while blogging here myself.  I know that my influence on this platform has been significant and I will continue to blog here for the foreseeable future.  I'm not going away, but my voting power will take a hit as I power down to fund this next phase of our lives. 

As of the end of day tomorrow, I will be withdrawing all the steem that I've delegated to people and start powering down.  If anybody wants to purchase steem, I am open to doing that privately rather than through exchanges.

I thought that the price of steem would go up significantly which would have completely funded my project idea to setup a world class training facility here on this land.  A program to teach people the skills they need to be able to live off the land as we do.  That has not transpired and I can no longer wait for it to happen.  As such, I feel Spirit needs me to take a slightly different approach. 

We will build a tiny home over the next 10 months giving us the capacity to travel around the land helping others get setup.  

So while the Stewards of Terra Mater existed here on the Steem Blockchain, I've decided to move the Stewards of Terra Mater into the real world and help people physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually get setup to be sacred stewards of Mother Earth.  

Big changes ahead, but please know that I am not leaving this blockchain.  I will continue to blog and share our journey as we make these changes.  I came here to share and make friends.  I've done that successfully.  The steem was a bonus and I'll use it now to help us take that next step towards spiritual, emotional, mental and physical freedom.  

Peace to you all.  I love you.