wonderful sweet Rowan!!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
meadowview - summer - sun - blue sky - breeze
hello dear friends and family,
I am enjoying a work-free friday afternoon in the backyard of my current home - meadowivew. the sun is shining , there is a breeze and i am sitting in the shade of a beautiful old and tall tree. it smells like summer and heat and summer holidays. i kept thinking this morning while picking beans that this is how a perfect day in france (hello dear la tranche fans..:)) would look like. relaxed and beautiful. i was volunteering this moring for a local project called 'backyard bounty'. it is a farm with no land. at least not in one spot. people sign up who would like to gove some of their backyyard land to this prpject and then the project turns that space into beds. it was my first time today that i volunteered and it was just so nice to be back on the land and in nature. while i was picking purple beans i was remembering last summe. the smells of the purple bean plant brought me back to vancouver island and whole village. so many good memories.
greetings,
jewels
I am enjoying a work-free friday afternoon in the backyard of my current home - meadowivew. the sun is shining , there is a breeze and i am sitting in the shade of a beautiful old and tall tree. it smells like summer and heat and summer holidays. i kept thinking this morning while picking beans that this is how a perfect day in france (hello dear la tranche fans..:)) would look like. relaxed and beautiful. i was volunteering this moring for a local project called 'backyard bounty'. it is a farm with no land. at least not in one spot. people sign up who would like to gove some of their backyyard land to this prpject and then the project turns that space into beds. it was my first time today that i volunteered and it was just so nice to be back on the land and in nature. while i was picking purple beans i was remembering last summe. the smells of the purple bean plant brought me back to vancouver island and whole village. so many good memories.
greetings,
jewels
Thursday, August 13, 2009
our journeys
dear friends and family,
days pass and become weeks and then months. it has been a month since i moved to guelph. and so many things happened. as i kinda watch the changes and events happening and shapening my life kind like a observer i feel relaxed and safe. i trust. sometimes that feeling is stringer sometimes not. i was honered to attend a memorial service for june gilbertson the woman i house sitted for. june and michael and her their daughter meggan went to ireland to see their relatives. june has cancer and while in ireland her health started to get worse and they decided to come home earlier. so i had to move out and over to mary-kate and her husband mike's place. mary-kate is their other daughter. while on the way over here june died on the airplane. half-way through heaven in the sky over ireland the counrty where she was born. i cycle closes. it was amazing to see and observe this family grief and at the same time celebrate her life. june touched so many lifes and all these lifes all these people came by or called or wrote as soon as they heart the news and shared their stories with june. it was very sad and there were many tears but at the same time that time was so full of love and passion for life and for june. last sunday was the memorial service and it was the most beautiful service i have ever attended. full of june, love, friendship and life. celebrating a woman's journey with all the people she has touched. and there were many. we cried and laughed together and it was so amazing. and so inspiring. it gave me another confirmation to lived this life, my life the way i like it and to the best i can do. i thought to myself i'd like to have people say the same thing at my memorial service. that i lived in community, shared, helped, inspired, hugged and loved. and embraced life and nature and the universe just like june. so my j in jewels or julia as my family knows me stands for june. as a loving reminder and to remember that i have a purpose.
so now i am house sitting for ben and christy as well as mary-kate and mike who are all living in the same house. they are all gone. ben and christy to ireland and mary0kate and mike on a canoe trip.
i am looking at different rooms at the moment and it is great as the whole community seems to try to help me find a spot i like. it is a challenge sometimes to remember to trust and simply surrender when these thoughts come up trying to convince me that i should have a room by now or it just won't work out. but it will. i will see another 2 tomorrow and i am emailing with another 2 people. i will be working saturday and sunday but will have off monday and tuesday becuase rowan is also canoeing. so that gives me time to look at the different rooms.
how is my job? well, dishes seem to get dirty every time i enter the room and well they keep getting dirty until i leave the kitchen...;) i know my way around by now and also know the other people who are working there and they are fun. it is still very busy and i am not sure how long i will be doing that but we'll see.
sending you all love and passion for this beautiful life we are all invited to live!
hakuna matata - that is for my friend jule who just started her time in africa. for a beautiful time there and an amazing experience!!
jewels
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
work day number 1
ui ui ui, wow my first shift lays behind me. 8 hours of washing, soaking, rinsing, scrubing, carrying and putting away dishes. cubs, and plates and glasses and pans and pots and cutting boards and spoons and forks and knifes and cubs and plates and... you get the picture..:) apparently it was a low day. oh well. so while i was up to my ellbows in dishwash water trying to save pots from tomatoe sauce, pesto pasta and the like i got an introduction for how to make coffee. oh you haven't done that yet? well here it goes...it is very easy. just put this into that, dont' take that one but this one, don't push it too hard, push it hard, left, right, up down and go for it...mhm... ok. and back to my dishes. every five minutes i needed to ask someone where to put something or where i find this or that. then an erand to the local store, ok we buy this tofu not that one, this soya sauce but not that one and don't take any other dressing that this one. ok. and off we wenrt to the next store to get another kind of tofu. then back to my dishes. hi jewels, can you get some tomatoes. sure where do they live? well, if you go down the stairs, turn left then right, then up and down and look through your third eye there is a box with tomatoes. you can't miss it. sure. alright down i went, actually found the tomatoes brought them up without squizzing them and the cook was happy. and back to my dishes. somehow every time i thought i got control over it there was another pile. so i started to philosophy about that. isn't our life like washing dishes? every time we think we figured it out, we got what we want, we are finally happy and content we realize there is another pile waiting for us, all dirty and laughing in our faces? isn't there always another challenge once we got over the one that seemed the biggest EVER?? you have time to think when you wash dishes that is very postive. unless somebody needs something or wants to widen my horizon about kitchen duties. which i appreciate but my brain was already high from the bleach water and all i could thing of was 'soap, rinse, bleach.soap,rinse, bleach.soap...' oh did you talk to me? sorry, what?:)
the time went surprisingly fast though. my shift was from 1-9pm and only around 5 i was in a deep soapy hole and thought time just doesn't move anymore. everything was moving sooo slow exept the dishes which seem to happy pile up one after another. around 6 i took a break and had something to eat. yes and i used a plate. ha. knowing that i will be the one who will clean it. sigh. the people are pretty cool and it was fun to work with them. some get annoyed earlier of my questions and confused looks some seem to have infinite patience. and then around 7:30pm i suddenly had this happyness shot creaping up my body into my head. probaly cause the end was nay.:) i started to sing and dance and the dishes seemed to clean themselves. like in cinderella. by then i smelled like bleach, had bleach all over me and acutally felt like a bar of soap myself. my fingers had disolved by then, my nails were so soft i could bend them into funny shapes like horses and flowers..;) my skin was so soft from the hot water that i just needed to touch it and it would burst open. oh yes, speaking of hot water. the water coming out of the tap was FREAKING HOT!! but not hot hot like, oh, wow that is hot. more like 'f***, i just burned off my little finger!'-hot. there is a little sign over the two sinks that says acording to law number blab blab blub you have to soap the dishes and the rinse them with hot water no cooler then 43celcius. 43CELCIUS. that is like stepping barfeet on sand in the sahara. man was that hot. and it didn't get better the more dishes i cleaned and therefore the more i burned myself. no. it just kept being painful. so i decided i will buy some cloves today. with a bright colour and smilies on them to cheer me up.
when the day was finally at end and the garbage bags were on the curb i wasn't that sure if i wanna come back on wednesday. it's freaking busy and i am standing the whole time. i have no clue what to say if a costumer comes a along and the waiter in charge has mistericly disappered(which happend a couple times). 'can i get a coffee?"'aehem, sure, yeah why not. don't we all love coffee?' 'so, can i get one now?" 'well,... actually...no. cause i have NO IDEA how to do it and even if i knew i couldn't do it cause my hands sunk and went lost in that FREAKING huge sink over there. yep, that one with the millions of dirty dishes piled up at each side growing by the second. which reminds me that i have to go back and unfortunately have to stop talking to you. but i think soon there will be a person appearing who claims to know how to do it and will happily assist you.'
ui ui ui. first days are kinda interesting. it is a real good experience for me cause i like to know how to do things and be in charge and do stuff on my one. now i have to ask about every step i take and don't take etc. and it's kinda overwhelming to tell the truth. i was very exhausted and just wanted to eat, not wash ANY more dishes no matter how many are piled up at home and go to bed. and i did.
so today i am not watching rowan which is really cool and i take the day off. i will buy some happy gloves and try not to freak out over the fact that i forget to empty the coolhouse-garbage cool water bucket yesterday at the end of my shift. that bucket likes to overfload and well, i forgot to empty it. i remembered it at 8 am this morning and felt this soapy awareness creaping up my throut. oh well.
so, yes dishwashing is fun and deliberating and joyfull.:) you rock, baby!:)
sending you loving soaps, aeaeah, soapy love...mhm...i mean bleach clear blessings,
jewels
the time went surprisingly fast though. my shift was from 1-9pm and only around 5 i was in a deep soapy hole and thought time just doesn't move anymore. everything was moving sooo slow exept the dishes which seem to happy pile up one after another. around 6 i took a break and had something to eat. yes and i used a plate. ha. knowing that i will be the one who will clean it. sigh. the people are pretty cool and it was fun to work with them. some get annoyed earlier of my questions and confused looks some seem to have infinite patience. and then around 7:30pm i suddenly had this happyness shot creaping up my body into my head. probaly cause the end was nay.:) i started to sing and dance and the dishes seemed to clean themselves. like in cinderella. by then i smelled like bleach, had bleach all over me and acutally felt like a bar of soap myself. my fingers had disolved by then, my nails were so soft i could bend them into funny shapes like horses and flowers..;) my skin was so soft from the hot water that i just needed to touch it and it would burst open. oh yes, speaking of hot water. the water coming out of the tap was FREAKING HOT!! but not hot hot like, oh, wow that is hot. more like 'f***, i just burned off my little finger!'-hot. there is a little sign over the two sinks that says acording to law number blab blab blub you have to soap the dishes and the rinse them with hot water no cooler then 43celcius. 43CELCIUS. that is like stepping barfeet on sand in the sahara. man was that hot. and it didn't get better the more dishes i cleaned and therefore the more i burned myself. no. it just kept being painful. so i decided i will buy some cloves today. with a bright colour and smilies on them to cheer me up.
when the day was finally at end and the garbage bags were on the curb i wasn't that sure if i wanna come back on wednesday. it's freaking busy and i am standing the whole time. i have no clue what to say if a costumer comes a along and the waiter in charge has mistericly disappered(which happend a couple times). 'can i get a coffee?"'aehem, sure, yeah why not. don't we all love coffee?' 'so, can i get one now?" 'well,... actually...no. cause i have NO IDEA how to do it and even if i knew i couldn't do it cause my hands sunk and went lost in that FREAKING huge sink over there. yep, that one with the millions of dirty dishes piled up at each side growing by the second. which reminds me that i have to go back and unfortunately have to stop talking to you. but i think soon there will be a person appearing who claims to know how to do it and will happily assist you.'
ui ui ui. first days are kinda interesting. it is a real good experience for me cause i like to know how to do things and be in charge and do stuff on my one. now i have to ask about every step i take and don't take etc. and it's kinda overwhelming to tell the truth. i was very exhausted and just wanted to eat, not wash ANY more dishes no matter how many are piled up at home and go to bed. and i did.
so today i am not watching rowan which is really cool and i take the day off. i will buy some happy gloves and try not to freak out over the fact that i forget to empty the coolhouse-garbage cool water bucket yesterday at the end of my shift. that bucket likes to overfload and well, i forgot to empty it. i remembered it at 8 am this morning and felt this soapy awareness creaping up my throut. oh well.
so, yes dishwashing is fun and deliberating and joyfull.:) you rock, baby!:)
sending you loving soaps, aeaeah, soapy love...mhm...i mean bleach clear blessings,
jewels
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
I LOVE Guelph!!
Hello dear friends and family.
I am sending you blessings from the beautiful city of Guelph, Ontario. I have been living here now for the past 3 weeks, house and dogsitting. What a wonderful city. Things are getting into motion as I have my first JOB. I wil lstart working for this funky, awesome, fun and sweet little place called 'the corner stone'. it is a vegetarian/vegan restaurant and I will be one of the counter people. So i am not serving costumers yet but washing dishes and making coffee, running up-and downstairs to stic up the kitchen etc. there is no introduction whatsoever but basically just a 'welcome and here you go'. they are all awesome people though. funky and crazy they way i like it. mark is the owner and my interview was in the sidewalk ending with a welcoming hug. really cool. so i am excited and curious how my first day will be. i am also nanny-ing again. this time for the wonderful, sweet, beautiful, awesome miss rowan sunshine who is almost 2 and a lot of fun. we eat, walkdance, sing, chill in the hammock, smell flowers and enjoy life together. no schedul whatsoever, no karate, soccer, playdates etc. no tv and a lotof nature and sunshine. she can even say jewels. yeahhhhh!:) so i am very happy right now. i am still looking for a room to rent but try to take this as another spiritual experience. just breathing, trusting and being. i maifested a perfect living situation so i simply need to wait and see what happens. and of course call people and email people and get the work out there.
i am very excited acout starting this part of my journey. i actually have a library card. and a house key. i went and saw an open-mike event at a local pizzeria and just couldn't stop smiling. the trees are dancing in the wind that is blowing today and makes my skirt (anna,m do you remeber the purple wrapping skirt you once gave to me? my mom send it to me and i am wearing it as much as i can...:)) dance. the sun comes out every once in a while but it is warm and it smells like summer and cut grass. when i stepped outside the house yesterday i heart 'dudelsack'music in the ear. there was a band practising close by in kilts and hats and everthing else. i love it.
i am sending you all blessings, especially my aunt heike who is facing some challenging times at the moment.
love, oh and have a jewelarious day!!!!!:)
jewels
I am sending you blessings from the beautiful city of Guelph, Ontario. I have been living here now for the past 3 weeks, house and dogsitting. What a wonderful city. Things are getting into motion as I have my first JOB. I wil lstart working for this funky, awesome, fun and sweet little place called 'the corner stone'. it is a vegetarian/vegan restaurant and I will be one of the counter people. So i am not serving costumers yet but washing dishes and making coffee, running up-and downstairs to stic up the kitchen etc. there is no introduction whatsoever but basically just a 'welcome and here you go'. they are all awesome people though. funky and crazy they way i like it. mark is the owner and my interview was in the sidewalk ending with a welcoming hug. really cool. so i am excited and curious how my first day will be. i am also nanny-ing again. this time for the wonderful, sweet, beautiful, awesome miss rowan sunshine who is almost 2 and a lot of fun. we eat, walkdance, sing, chill in the hammock, smell flowers and enjoy life together. no schedul whatsoever, no karate, soccer, playdates etc. no tv and a lotof nature and sunshine. she can even say jewels. yeahhhhh!:) so i am very happy right now. i am still looking for a room to rent but try to take this as another spiritual experience. just breathing, trusting and being. i maifested a perfect living situation so i simply need to wait and see what happens. and of course call people and email people and get the work out there.
i am very excited acout starting this part of my journey. i actually have a library card. and a house key. i went and saw an open-mike event at a local pizzeria and just couldn't stop smiling. the trees are dancing in the wind that is blowing today and makes my skirt (anna,m do you remeber the purple wrapping skirt you once gave to me? my mom send it to me and i am wearing it as much as i can...:)) dance. the sun comes out every once in a while but it is warm and it smells like summer and cut grass. when i stepped outside the house yesterday i heart 'dudelsack'music in the ear. there was a band practising close by in kilts and hats and everthing else. i love it.
i am sending you all blessings, especially my aunt heike who is facing some challenging times at the moment.
love, oh and have a jewelarious day!!!!!:)
jewels
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
georgetown, ontario, canada
hi dear friends and family,
i am back in canada. yeah, since saturday morning around 5:30am i have been walking on canadian territory!:) i am staying with jayne who is a very dear friend of mine and i am getting settled and ready to start working. this time i have a work and travel visa so i can actually work and make some money. yeah.:) right now i am taking it easy though cause i am getting used to the idea of having left belfast, maine which is such a lovely place. i really endjoyed my stay there. right now i am at a point in my travel life where i am longing to settle down and stay at one place for a longer period. my body is getting tired of moveing constantly and having to adjust to different lifestyles and housing situations. i am very aware of my body needs and i think i am ready to do what it asks for. so i am sendind out the request to the universe to find a place i like and i feel comfortable and where i can image to stay for longer.
i am sending you all love and blessings and i hope you are enjoying the summer sun as much as i do here.
love,
jewels
i am back in canada. yeah, since saturday morning around 5:30am i have been walking on canadian territory!:) i am staying with jayne who is a very dear friend of mine and i am getting settled and ready to start working. this time i have a work and travel visa so i can actually work and make some money. yeah.:) right now i am taking it easy though cause i am getting used to the idea of having left belfast, maine which is such a lovely place. i really endjoyed my stay there. right now i am at a point in my travel life where i am longing to settle down and stay at one place for a longer period. my body is getting tired of moveing constantly and having to adjust to different lifestyles and housing situations. i am very aware of my body needs and i think i am ready to do what it asks for. so i am sendind out the request to the universe to find a place i like and i feel comfortable and where i can image to stay for longer.
i am sending you all love and blessings and i hope you are enjoying the summer sun as much as i do here.
love,
jewels
Sunday, May 31, 2009
rocking chairs on the porch...
hi dear firends,
some time went by since my oast entry...well, what can i say??:) i am in new hampshire, it is sunday morning, the sun shines on my bar feet and arms, i am sitting on the proch joined by judy's family. the birds are singing and besides that nothing can be heart. occasionally a car comes driving by. i spent the weekend with judy and her family cause dan, judy's brother organized a house concert yesterday night which was amazing. a fiddler and a guitar and they were both incredible. the house is big enough to host all of us and 65 guests. today everybody is tired but very happy. in an hour there will be lunch and german rhubarb cake for dessert.:) i have been visiting diedre and jusy for over a week now and i simply fell in love with belfast. it is such a neat little town. farmer's markets on friday and saturdays, little individual stores and cafes, the ocean in walking distance. there is a food-coop so a lot of organic food for amazing prices. i went to a african dance workshop last thursday and that was fun. i was mostly falling over my own feet trying to follow the teacher'snstructions. she by the way was simply amazing. and it looked sooo easy...there was a live drummer and wow, the way my body felt afterwars was worth the embarrassment..:) after the 'little' warm up in the beginning i was already exhasusted but it was only the beginning. cause i was a dop-in i didn't know anything of the choreography and had to learn everything in that one session. it was fun though nevertheless.
i will stay on for the next week or at least i hope i can stay on depening how diedre feels about that. next saturday is a contra dance event and i would LOVE to go and attend that. that is a lot of fun.
last week i went to curch with judy and annouced at joys and concerns that i am looking for some jobs to make a little money for the road, jobs like cutting the lawn, helping clenaing etc. well, 4 or 5 people came up to me and so i was busy most of the week. i planted a whole bed of sunflowers and weeded like crazy and turned a 'weed'bed into a well weeded bed for flowers. i did that in the rain but with hayley sales and good rain gear it was actually fun.
judy's family is a lot if fun, we are all joking around and teasing each other. just kidding...:) after lunch we gonna get going back home, a 4 hour ride with the car.
anyway, sendng you all lots of love and sunshine,
jewels
some time went by since my oast entry...well, what can i say??:) i am in new hampshire, it is sunday morning, the sun shines on my bar feet and arms, i am sitting on the proch joined by judy's family. the birds are singing and besides that nothing can be heart. occasionally a car comes driving by. i spent the weekend with judy and her family cause dan, judy's brother organized a house concert yesterday night which was amazing. a fiddler and a guitar and they were both incredible. the house is big enough to host all of us and 65 guests. today everybody is tired but very happy. in an hour there will be lunch and german rhubarb cake for dessert.:) i have been visiting diedre and jusy for over a week now and i simply fell in love with belfast. it is such a neat little town. farmer's markets on friday and saturdays, little individual stores and cafes, the ocean in walking distance. there is a food-coop so a lot of organic food for amazing prices. i went to a african dance workshop last thursday and that was fun. i was mostly falling over my own feet trying to follow the teacher'snstructions. she by the way was simply amazing. and it looked sooo easy...there was a live drummer and wow, the way my body felt afterwars was worth the embarrassment..:) after the 'little' warm up in the beginning i was already exhasusted but it was only the beginning. cause i was a dop-in i didn't know anything of the choreography and had to learn everything in that one session. it was fun though nevertheless.
i will stay on for the next week or at least i hope i can stay on depening how diedre feels about that. next saturday is a contra dance event and i would LOVE to go and attend that. that is a lot of fun.
last week i went to curch with judy and annouced at joys and concerns that i am looking for some jobs to make a little money for the road, jobs like cutting the lawn, helping clenaing etc. well, 4 or 5 people came up to me and so i was busy most of the week. i planted a whole bed of sunflowers and weeded like crazy and turned a 'weed'bed into a well weeded bed for flowers. i did that in the rain but with hayley sales and good rain gear it was actually fun.
judy's family is a lot if fun, we are all joking around and teasing each other. just kidding...:) after lunch we gonna get going back home, a 4 hour ride with the car.
anyway, sendng you all lots of love and sunshine,
jewels
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