As I watch the rest of the world climbing the walls in isolation hell, I must say I am one content human right now. After spending two and a half months travelling in a caravan across the southern part of Australia at a very chilled pace, we found ourselves in Melbourne city as the Covid 19 shit got real in this country. Staying with friends was a refreshing change to only each others company for so long but we both knew we could only handle the rat race for a few weeks before needing open spaces again. We also needed to find work but with everything closing down including borders between states, things became a little stressful. Even the camp grounds were closed so we couldn’t even ride this thing out in the bush.
I was humbled by how total strangers stepped in to offer us refuge but even better, a job as well, just when things were getting dire. So here I sit in northern Victoria on an organic dairy farm surrounded by the rolling Alpine hills, nature and fresh air. We have a little house to self isolate for 14 days before being allowed to help with the animals but are kept busy making this little house and garden shine.
Despite all the illness and deaths across the world, it’s as if the Earth has let out a long held breath and is slowly taking in another one, deep, clean and full of hope with what we may learn in our ‘time out’. Earths’ naughty children have been shut in their rooms to have a good hard think about their interactions with her. Hopefully we make the most of this slowing down and start to look in and see what is truly important to us and whether or not we are living in alignment with these beliefs.
Be kind to yourself, be kind to each other.
Working on this farm gives me an even greater appreciation for nature and her cycles. Keeping life simple and trying to use the time to navigate back on course, remembering my ‘why’ and hoping there are millions of people across the world doing the same thing. It’s not often the entire world is affected by the same issue at the same time, and my wish is that this is the wake up call we all need to start to live within not only our own means but that of the planets’. We need regeneration, wisdom and creativity right now and that doesn’t happen without giving yourself the space to let it in.
Here is that time and space we have all been asking for. What will you do with it before the door is opened and you’re allowed back out to play?
