the north sea today

tide coming in … but no water to see. looked like a moonscape. we came there to gather algae. worked hard to get a few handfull … mixed with lots of mud (filled up our b12 reserves ). ice cold hand & feet but lots of fun, wonderful fresh air & an afternoon to remember! & what a yummy dinner tonight

eat from your stash … my name for a game jademond has just started. sounds funny

somehow this is our usual way to eat …but with a stash only surviving a few days for it consists of 95% fresh fruit & greens. our kitchen is either empty or filled with an abundance of fruit. at the moment we have plenty of ripe papayas, bananas & pineapples, oranges, apples, pears, grapes, dates & enough spinache for about 3 days. besides there are blackberry leaves & some avocados. we also have some nuts, almonds & seeds in our cupboard but it seems we won’t need any of these the next days

… this is what we had the last days. we don’t stick to the usual meals, each of us eats whenever she is hungry, but most days m & i share three to four meals. j usually eats on his own.

wednesday:

• papaya, grapes, spinache
• durian with blackberry leaves
• grapes, dates, mulberries with blackberry leaves
• oranges with spinache
• j. does not play along; he ordered a pizza today. furthermore he had cucumber, apple, bread with peanut butter.

thursday:

• papaya with spinache
• grapes with spinache for me; a cream of banana, carob & greens decorated with raisins & salad for m
• spinache, tomatoes, 1/2 avocado, olives
• papaya (flesh for m, seeds for me ), apple, dates, fennel, blackberry leaves
• j had bread, vegan chocolate, 1 apple, 1 pear, grape juice.

we are just back home from 2 relaxing, heart-warming days with friends. 4 kids, ages 3 to 9, playing together all the time & getting along wonderful. 3 women, enjoying the time together talking talking talking. what a wonderful life! thank you so much!

what do you eat (& do) to keep yourself warm on days with -10° celcius or less? up to last week i felt like eating things like avocado, coconut & sweet potato (fat & carbs) to keep my body warm. a few days ago i found that even at this chilliness i feel better on eating fruits & greens. low fat.

this is what i had today:

• 1,5 ananas (not at once, of course )
• about 200g miner’s lettuce, mizuna & other salad
• 2 small persimmon
• 1 medjool date
• 1 plantain
• 6 leaves of savoy cabbage
• 1 apple
• 1 carob bean
• about 7 BIG leaves of curly kale
• 2 oranges
• about 30-40 big blackberry leaves

since i am somewhat inspired by “green for life” from victoria boutenko which i just have read, part of the greens had been blended: plantain with savoy cabbage turned out to be really yummy! but i still prefer to eat the things as they are … the best meal today was eating plantain & cabbage in the sun in front of our house

anyway, what really helps to keep me warm isn’t food but exercise. move! i do 3 to 4 small workouts a day, 5 to 20 minutes each, on the stepper or doing sit-ups, pushups, stretching or something.

we all were born for a reason. it was not a mistake and it didn’t occur randomly. we arrived exactly when we knew we would, into the exact environment we planned on arriving into, with full knowledge of what we were getting ourself into. only that in the moment we arrived, we forgot all that.

our challenge is to remember that reason & then, if we choose to, to fulfill it. the reason is our purpose for existing. it’s why we’re here.

(inspired by john p. strelecky)

knowing the reason why i am here can help me in making decisions – it’s like my personal compass for life. a very helpful step on my way to remember my purpose for existing is to realize what is (& has been) really important for me, the big themes in my life. what do i want to do, see, experience in this life? so i am just about to find out my “big 5 for life” …

my dear friend christie sent this to me – thank you so much for your loving support!

“ein krieger des lichts fürchtet nicht, verrückt zu erscheinen. [...] in dem augenblick, in dem er losschreitet, erkennt ein krieger des lichts den weg. [...] wenn er auf den idealen augenblick wartet, wird er nicht von der stelle kommen; um den nächsten schritt zu tun, bedarf es einer prise verrücktheit.” “ein krieger des lichts tut immer außergewöhnliches. [...] wenn er spürt, dass die stunde gekommen ist, läßt er alles zurück und bricht zu dem abenteuer auf, von dem er immer geträumt hat.”
(quelle: handbuch des kriegers des lichts, paulo coelho)

imagine after your death there will be a museum, an exhibition of your life. filled with all the things you did during your life. things you spent a lot of time with will take a lot of place in this museum whilst others, you only did seldom will be little presented – irrespective of what you really wanted to do, loved to do, prefered to do! it will be your job to guide others through your museum & to show them your life – every day. you will have to spend there all your time – with YOUR LIFE.

what to you want it to be filled with?

me, i want mine to be filled with love, joy, happiness, colors, pictures, art, sun, people, communication, journeys, nature, … !