So I was asked about the transition that I go through for my move to Hawai'i.
Currently, we're trying to figure out what we're going to keep and what we are going to release. Then we are going to take what we're keeping, and decide what is actually going with us to Hawai'i and what is going to stay in a box in Cali until we decide we want some kind of most permanent housing.
This is amazingly challenging. Not the purging part, but the "well if I'm keeping this, why isn't it going to Hawai'i?"…
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Posted on August 10, 2009 at 10:10am — 6 Comments
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I'll stay if I can be honest . It's in their hands.
You too have a nice and healthy day.
Yes, I did have the option for "free" housing. And thats how I lived for the first week. Housing was paid off by 20 hours a week. Shankar pays $7.5/hr if you work for him for cash. One of his cabins was only $300/month (5 acres of land, really beautiful spot). My friend and I split it, which meant I only had to work 5 hours a week for housing! And I still was able to eat all the food I wanted. They give a store run a week for food, mostly cooked vegetarian food.
Dharma is a drug/substance free farm. Some workers are not, but anyone staying on the land is suppose to be (some still smoked pot and drank). Shankar (the owner aka Alan) is totally drug free and is not down with that stuff. He is all about positive vibrations and living life the way it was created for us.
I meant more of the culture/ community of Puna, not Dharma itself. Puna is where all the hippies run away to, in order to live a more free lifestyle. As I mentioned lots of iowoska, mushrooms, and other drugs going on there- including tons of alcohol.
The mango crop was a bunker not a bumper! I believe they should have tons of pineapples ready soon.
I also got $300 in food stamps/ month so everything I couldn't forage, like sapote, rambutan, cherimoya, and rollenia (for example) I was still able to enjoy!
I didn't enjoy the intense culture out there. I am use to a hippie community becaue I grew up going to festies, getting high, and all of that stuff. But I also grew out of it. Where as it didn't get to me because I was use to the culture, I also wasn't a huge fan. The people were nice, but they would rather get high than go for a 30 mile bike ride. Oh well, I had a blast anyways!!!
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