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A Quiet Toast to Scattered Thoughts

There are situations when the best way to finish a hectic week is to organize a comfortable ritual right in your house. And it is not necessary to make a big

Our One Year Anniversary On Our Land Is Today! 🌺🥳❤️‍🔥👋

Wow - today marks one full year since we first set foot on our land... We've been looking back on our time here, seeing how far we've come and what has already been

Option 1: Peaceful & Reflective.

Option 1: Peaceful & Reflective ​"Escaping the hustle and bustle for a moment of peace. There’s something so grounding about watching life move at its own

Raking Hay Whilst The Baking Sun Shines

our new 'fridge'! We are in the temporary 'kitchen' of our new home, having eaten our first meal in this house. A simple affair, as we haven't brought our cooker

The Pigsty, The Chicken Rooms & The Hayloft (our new home!)

We spent the early morning and then the afternoon and evening yesterday, working on our new house. At last the word came from the owner's daughter, that all he needs

The Goed Life 🌺🏵️🌹🌷🌼🪷

As @vincentnijman referenced recently, it has been hard to get into sharing this month, as things have been pushing us to the edge of sanity - and beyond, in places!

Biodiversity Abounds!

Hallo Dear Hive Garden Friends! It has been a long while since I shared in this community, as we've been deep in our #sovereignhomestead journey, and sharing over

The weather stayed with me

I've been sitting by this window for three days now, and the mountains haven't changed their mood once. The mist hangs low over the valley, the same thickness each

The quiet geometry of staying still

I spent the afternoon in one of the college passages, the kind where light moves slowly across stone and you lose track of time without trying. There's a particular

Sint-Anna station, 12:25, and suddenly I'm not in a hurry anymore

I was supposed to catch the 12:25 to Richting Groenplatax. That was the plan. Quick commute, nothing fancy. But then I stepped off the escalator at Sint-Anna and

New Day - New House!

How our world has changed in one day! Last week we began looking more earnestly at our 'financial situation' and to consider asking for help. A couple of days later

When Dawn Whispers: Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary

🌅 When Dawn Whispers: Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary "There is nothing quite like the stillness of dawn..." From my window, the world still sleeps,

When sunset mean dinner time

![]( a quiet village, as the sun sets, life slows down… but the purpose becomes clear.These are not fishermen.They are ordinary villagers, casting nets not for business,

Spring, Love, Expansion 🌱☘️🌿🍃🌳

Today was - as is quite usual now - a range of the extreme and the banal... From a glorious breakfast on our 'terazzo' to chatting with a very lovely woman from

Living The Way

Today was a spontaneous full working day on our land: I began with selecting an appropriately-girthed oak as a first of 6 pillars for our mezzanine, then we progressed

Slow walk in Madiun - My Actifit Report Card: February 7 2026

The countryside always feels much fresher than the big, chaotic city of Jakarta. Today I walked in Madiun, East Java. Here the air is lighter and time seems to move

Identity Wildness Homesteading Freedom - podcast

Dearest Hive Homesteading & Natural Law friends! Here is the latest episode of The Art Of Life podcast: an hour of deep-dive into the early days of this glorious

Tennis Ball Fruits, Window Metaphors, Hedging, Synchronies...🌟

So we were getting out of the car at a very-expertly-parked spot, just the other side of a pavement, next to a large, wet wood pile. In Trivento, Molise, where we

Stripping Away the Tinsel: What I’m Letting Go of This Year

A new year always feels like a new fresh page. But instead of adding more unreachable or unreasonable goals, more, and more noise, I'm thinking about what I want

Giving In versus Giving Up 🙏🌟❤️‍🔥

We’ve been back in Guardia Sanframondi for almost a week now, and I am champing at the bit to get back to our land. But we can’t. It is simply not ready for this