WOODY POINT – Australia 8/100
Obstacle – Thinking up ideas in isolation
First kick in the ___: I come across the Gayundah shipwreck as I’m walking sunny Woody Point. It’s got water sloshing through its rusty, skeletal remains. I’ve been sitting in the car in the parking lot for hours while it rained and blew planning and considering how motivation is going to actually become an engine for action. Motivation.
Second kick in the ___ : I come home from the farmer’s market, arms full. We got up at 5 in the morning to get there before they sold out. I made a wild and wonderful salad. There was a moment when it occurred to me that a one or two-time excursion was fine but was I going to insist on this every week? I closed my eyes and thought of all the hands the vegetables had passed through to make this salad, from sowing, to harvesting, to chopping. Hand to hand.
Third kick in the ___: I begged to learn how to make Lamingtons from a lifelong pro (an Aussie mum), a chocolate icing covered, finely desiccated coconut smothered cake. Found gluten-free cake at the market, got a recipe for divine frosting (coconut oil, honey and cocoa) and did it. Together.
The kicker: Love is a big motivator. Feeling loved is feeling dear, connected and part of the whole.
Solution – Let life move you
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Commenting – It’s never too late to comment on a post.
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Okay.
Fourth kick in the ___: You fed this to the w’underbeast, and lo’ this kick reverberates across the ether, across the miles to make friends (well, friend, anyway) cry with recognition and joy…
Motivation.
Hand-to-hand.
Together.
Love IS dear, as in the French chere–not so much expensive as precious, treasured, rich.
Via this kick I realize–I recognize: love in action generates this priceless feeling, this connectedness, this wholeness.
Yeah.
Blather and halloo from “up over!”
7/100
Oh.
And I WANT A PIECE of that LAMINGTON’S.
Please.
8/100
Loving your insights that seem to defy everyday thought patterns! It’s like you can just step out and up into real amazing world (instead of staying in stuck). Also need to know more about the gf cake…
11/100
“One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast… a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains. Run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards.””
Edward Abby
13/100
LOVED this article.
Love is the mystery object
that holds us,
hurts us,
leaves us-
reminds us…
that to survive..
all living beings
need love.
15/100
Lamingtons are really yummy. They are a local (aussie) idea and taste great no matter the calories. 16/100
Lamingtons are a spongy white cake (hard to describe to my American friends…like a cruller texture, kind of, only cake and not so eggy…), cut into large cubes, iced with chocolate icing and covered in coconut. I’ll put the recipe for the icing up as soon as I have it with me when I have internet access (still intermittent). I have a cake recipe too, but I haven’t made it since I’ve found the gluten free ones at the market, and it’s from a 1950s cookbook so it will be untested. I’ll put it up too, here in comments, when I can.
They are delicious! Bought the cake again today at market. :-)
Would love a recipe for my celiac partner. Truly gluten free? Hard to believe. Another solution to what has now become an everyday problem.
Thanks to mother earth for all her lovely greens and produce now growing from a new garden verdant from a rainy month of May. 35/100
response – The lamington frosting is: 200 grams honey, 100 grams coconut oil, 80 grams cocoa. The gluten free cake I buy at the local farmer’s market. I’ll ask for a recipe next time I’m there. Check out The Adventuresome Kitchen gluten free blog (remember Jennifer the opera singer? – her throat problems were due to gluten so she’s been on a mission).
Evident in rain-soaked greens-bearing garden is how life is moving you. I know, even though I can’t see it, that your garden, your orchard, your farm is your art.