Today's Rambling Thoughts

[livefrommombasa]

Some of you have known me for a really long time. And some of you who have not known me for a really long time still know that my entire life I've wanted to grow up and help people. I focused so much energy on learning how to be in service to others throughout my adolescence

Comments

[ellehollinger]

There is something about spending time doing physical things with my hands that really feeds me internally, like crafting or baking or gardening-- some of the activities you mentioned. I often long for a more honest, genuine sort of life where I can run through forests and grow food and use my hands. Somewhere in my head/heart I feel that a life of voluntary simplicity, free from all the material things I am supposed to need and full of all those spiritually fulfilling activities like growing one's own food and waking up without an alarm clock, is the better way to live. Of course, when I finally do stop and engage in those activities heavily I often tire of them too and find that what I needed was a break, and not a major life change. I can imagine that a complex, intelligent, and multi-skilled women such as yourself would have a lot of conflicting concepts of "the good life" and it doesn't surprise me at all that after fulfilling one ideal you still feel that some part of you is left hungry.

It would be so wonderful if one day there could be a place where many of us soul-hungry ladies could gather together to celebrate and cook and knit and talk and run through forests and drum and fulfill some of those desires that we long for.

I think many of us feel that at times, when something isn't clicking in our lives.

be free from many of the material and social things

[livefrommombasa]

Thanks for that reminder for balance.