A long time between posts, I havent been very focused on the internet lately, sorry about that!
So much has happened. Went to Victoria for The Town festival and to visit everybody which was wonderful. On the drive back we visited a couple of cactus farms – Cactus Country in strathmearton and Lester Myers in Gilgandra.
Had a lot of trouble uploading photos, finally managed to do it . They can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-3duh9mEWSYeU1mVmhqdE5SZlk
Many beautiful cactus.
This one is my favorite though!
Ok so I have done another Vipassana retreat, it was really challenging and brought up a lot of the old depressive feelings that I havent felt and had forgotten about so long ago. It sucked just as much as it always did, however was a good reminder of why I am doing vipassana and that I have a lot of old stuff to work through. I feel like it is really helping me and teaching me a lot about myself so I’ve decided to commit to doing at least 30 days of vipassana retreat coming up in August. Been keeping up with 2 hours a day of practice which is great. Now that I am getting into the rhythm of it, The practice is getting easier and I can feel my mind getting calmer and stronger.
I have been trying to focus on improving my mind and body. (more so than usual) I dont want my lethargy and lack of motivation and physical discomfort to be permanent. I have been to see a highly unorthodox doctor who is qualified in many alternative therapies also (osteopathy, naturopathy and other things) It was pretty strange and I dont know if it actually helped me, but i the three weeks since I saw him Ihave definitely felt an improvement in my energy, motivation and mood. (might be 50 days of meditating every day taking effect), also it might have something to do with that it has finally stopped raining! We have been super busy over the last few days burning off and gathering all the garbage left by the previous owners into two big heaps. So much crap. There was so much ruined and rotting wood that our bonfire has been burning for 48 hours so far! Lots of lantana has been cleared and native plants have been taking their place.
I dont have any photos prepared for this entry, I just wanted to get a post up, but I will upload some new photos of how much nicer ther place looks now.
We are now onto version 2.0 of our dream house plan. Again I will try to upload some pictures of it on the next update 🙂
Ok theres so much has happened and planning but I cant remember any of it to write.
nigggles 