I have started on a new journey for me. It is called "Journey to the Golden Fleece." This will be an interesting journey for me, because it is going to be making me re-examine some things in my life that I am not sure I want to do. But, you know what? I already have done that. In module one, it is The Call to Adventure. It wants us to try to pinpoint when we decided that we have become "heroes" and changed how we looked at things. How did we become the creative beings that we are today, what has influenced us to become this way and so on.
The point in my life, I feel, is when I was blessed with a beautiful baby girl. No one will ever be able to tell me, that they felt the same way I did, when they placed that little tiny girl, into my arms for the first time. Each person's feelings and emotions are their own. There are no two alike and of that I am glad. That means I am my own being and creative in my own way.
Being a single mom, at that time, way back when, had a lot of negative connotations attached. I was asked if I was going to abort the baby, if I would get rid of it? But no. I decided, that since I had been adopted, that if I didn't feel I could raise this little girl, then I would place her for adoption.
Let me tell you, we struggled a lot over the years, had a lot of hard times, and were even homeless for a time, but we still managed to get through. I had to become creative in ways to put food on the table, NO I did not steal, but we would go foraging for berries, came across abandoned rhubarb patches out in the middle of fields, and found abandoned fruit trees as well. We rented garden plots for very cheap and grew a lot of our own food that way. I would have pots on the balconies of the places we lived with tomatoes and peppers and things. I even washed our clothes, and my daughters diapers, in the bathtub, by hand, because I couldn't afford to go to the laundry mat.
But that is behind me now, but I still have those creative juices flowing through me. It just now shows in my spinning and knitting and creating delicious food.
I still can and freeze fruits and produce for the winter months, buy as much as I can on sale, and believe strongly in the barter and trade system.
So now you have a little idea of how my "Journey to the Golden Fleece" has started. I keep a hand written journal, with all my scribblings and pictures and such, and now I will also be keeping this blog as well. This will not just be for the Fleece Journey, but for all aspects of my life and what I am up to.
So welcome to my world. If you like it, please stay awhile, pull up a comfy chair, sit a spell and read. If you don't like it, that is quite alright as well. This might not be your cup of tea, and that's just fine too.
The world is a fascinating place out there. Let me show you a little bit about mine.
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