Transcript of Average Days Of My Life (Story 40)

[Applause] um um [Music] um [Music] [Music] um this week i finished putting the windows in my house and now that it's getting time to move it to its final destination i've been clearing the spot up in the hillside where it's gonna go um so this morning i've had a fire it's pretty early it's like 5 30 in the morning and it's so peaceful out it's so peaceful this is the first morning in a long time that i've just had time to be because i've either been working or waking up early to work on that dang tiny house so i actually had the chance to do yoga which is really luxurious i super badly need it especially after all that driving and camping and just life i do this sometimes when i have a fire going i'll write down something that i'd like to let go of in my life and burn it and just kind of feel it being released into the ether and it feels really like cleansing and in our life we have so many different materialistic distractions nature is so perfect because it allows you to feel and see your own truth because those distractions aren't there and you can begin to connect to your intention for your life this is what i'm having for breakfast i usually actually have rice and beans every day in the morning because it's very cheap and super yummy today i have some corn some fermented vegetables and cilantro and avocado so yeah really yummy so it's the afternoon well actually that's not true it's later than the afternoon it's about six o'clock i'm about to drive up north a couple of hours i'm going to my friend's farm and to do some work and to hang out this person who owns this farm is such a magnificent human and mentor and just being of light it's amazing [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] there is meaning in life but it's hard to find it and it's hard to point it out but i you know some sort of connection to the larger world is all i know and gardening will give you that and any interest in the living world outside of our own problems helps feel better or even good about life i think yeah that's true so what where do you find meaning well you and i were talking earlier about gardening and how it's just it's a simple endeavor you don't have to be a rocket scientist to grow but the simple act of of interacting with other living things the things that you you're preparing the soil you learn about soil you learn what good soil is and you try and make your soil good and planting seeds and nurturing them and i was saying that the garden gardens are like having a child only better because you can walk away from the garden you can't walk away from your childhood and the plants don't talk back the way your kids do and yeah it's sort of joking you know but but the pleasure of gardening is high and personally i'm a naturalist and i look for time to get away from home and out in the natural world and it's just it's truly magnificent it almost surprises me every time it's like why did you let five days go by without taking a hike because i forget how beautiful the world is so and that's i think getting out of ourselves and just seeing the world around us and caring about it and loving its beauty and there was a guy at the store yesterday who had a t-shirt on a young man from tri-cities now in museum and he his t-shirt said live simply and i said i like your t-shirt i would have said the same thing yeah yeah he was he had a good air about him and he could tell he was a sweet young man but anyhow turn that thing off [Music] foreign [Music] mario [Music] papaya [Music] [Applause] so [Music] foreign so my family's come to visit and so there's a lot of sleeping people everywhere the cabin is quite small so there's people in the living room area so i couldn't make coffee this morning i walked up here though and it's just so peaceful oh my gosh wow i should do this every morning to be honest this is like amazing i'm not even sure why i'm awake right now to be quite honest it's so early and i stayed up extremely late last night like 2 am because i was looking at the stars all night they were incredibly beautiful like i mean i just couldn't even really believe my eyes and what i was looking at we're living in the most spectacular world i can't really even believe it [Music] if [Music] [Music] see then i would know baby where to go if baby where you go if i could know baby would you know be just to be baby where you are just [Music] where to go [Music] goodness oh [Applause] butt hurts