02 Nov 26 The one thing I hear people say a lot to me is: Possessions mean nothing. I have found, over the past six months, this is 100% inaccurate. The possesions I personally surround myself with are unique to me, and talk of times which were really important in my family. Some are expensive - like that marble Chess Set from France that I picked up at 50%, and I still paid $500 for it 15+ years ago. Yet it has brought so many memories, and we absolutely love it. It has been worth its price 1000 times over. Our framed photos of times that were super special to Liam and I - some from his childhood, some from just months ago. One of our favourite pictures is when I flew to America for his Doctorate. Coming from the airport he took me to a tiny Light Festival, but which had a little fair at the end of it which had, hand on heart, in the middle of fucking DC, a live camel. So in pride of place in this Graduation photo that hangs on our main wall, with his Mentor and friends and everyone, there is also a photo of Liam and I, (me after a 20 hour flight, no make-up, hair mussed) and Liam and I and this damn camel grinning like idiots. I fucking LOVE that photo. ....and my cowskin, distressed cabinet-type-thingy. Which is neither a cabinet nor a thing. The photo of Boo at the winning post, with his time etc but also in the same frame, Mummas bear and him at our home where he was birthed (Note: I did think I had killed him) at one week old. The trip up north this year where we missed all those terrible floods by days, but where Spirit walked with us, the Sun shone, our Ancestors spoke, and we had the most amazing Soul time. We have an old map, signed, dated and framed from that time, and the place where I learnt how to Intelligent-Mother-Earth garden. But just recently I realized my home also meant my garden. The Zen that I create, step-by-step and minute by minute. Where every plant has a place, and a purpose, and a reason. My home is full of love and things, and is an intricate and complex tapestry of the life I have woven, the DNA I share with my Ancestors, and the gifts of love I have, and have been gifted, back. Possessions are not just things. Love always, T and Spirit, dino_the_dinosaur_kettle and the tribe xx * I respect the Elders of the Land where I work, live, laugh, love and play - Past, Present and Future.
