Dez's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

POST 327 (DAY 337, Monday, 2021.7.12)
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.... perspective.. an alternate lifestyle is perhaps an alternate reality.. when Neo started to realize how different the real world is compared to the matrix, his gut reversed.. then when he accepted his new truths, he began to fly.. I’m in Bootcamp deep roots.. earn an acre after two years of working.. includes in-field training and support, organic food, housing, extra income options, and experiences.. my dream is to retire in my 40s.. what would I give to reach my dream?
.... perspective is knowing that I have the choice to reject or accept the “realistic” limitations set up by others’ standards or simply live into my own values.. helping others best I can, along the way in learning to fly.. it’s not easy, nor comfortable—when did easy and comfortable become my standards? And would I trade easy and comfortable for enjoyable and fulfilling? Nourishing and enriching?.. I’m not Neo—I’m me..

POST 328 (DAY 338, Tuesday, 2021.7.13)
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POST 329 (DAY 339, Wednesday, 2021.7.14)
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.... leaning in.. what is a best friend?..

POST 330 (DAY 340, Thursday, 2021.7.15)
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.... what’s worth it.. a noble task.. a good gift.. permaculture..

POST 331 (DAY 341, Friday, 2021.7.16)
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.... there seems to be a mild stress in my life these days.. things being out of order or untidy or not the way they “should be”.. seeing drinking mugs being left out—this is for drinking; it should be in someone’s hand with a drink in it, or washed and in the cupboard.. “why don’t people put their mugs away?” Asks mr mug CSI.. because people are human.. maybe I can be asking “can I love that?”.. living in community is a front row seat to the human condition, the AS-IS-ness of our mess.. also guess what?—a front row seat to the judgey thoughts running around my very own monkey brain.. can I love that??..
.... the solution may not be in finding and correcting the mug-leaver-outer.. do I want to live in an orderly world?.. yes.. alone?.. perhaps sometimes.. can one be in an orderly world AND in community?.. if the common unity is order; until then, I must lean on the actual common unity of permaculture.. to focus on our love of a better world, together.. until then, mugs shall be left out or washed and in the cupboard.. but what about responsibility?—maybe that’s another conversation.. and maybe being responsible also involves patiently waiting or simply releasing control.. heaven forbid I wash one random mug as one random act of kindness on one random day..
.... fact remains clear—peeps leave mugs out.. for only good reasons.. and if it’s the thought that counts, it’s kinda like a bad gift?.. maybe that’s a bit of a stretch.. but a little stretch is better than a stress, nearly every time..!
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Dez what are you doing to those kittens, they are always sleeping in your pics!  :)

My other half leaves his drinking glass out.. cause he doesn't want to wash it multiple times a day. Used to drive me crazy, now it is just understood. I can accept that. Perhaps that is what they are doing?

POST 332 (DAY 342, Saturday, 2021.7.17)
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S Smithsson—I suppose it’s a different way to live life.. and to each their own path.. i then have the choice to accept/understand and even support.. but I need not fight a losing battle :) .. per the kittens —they get that way on hot days.. fur-puddles, melty-cats..