A Farm With A Forest

   Dreaming! First and foremost I am actually living a life that fulfills so many of my dreams and for that I am thankful. However there is more I want and that is the beauty of dreaming. It is okay to dream of more as long as you are remembering to be filled with thankfulness for your here and now too!

   My dream I am thinking about today is a dream involving community living. In my mind it looks like a beautiful property somewhere that my husband and I own. There is clean running water and forest and field and we have gardens and animals. This property however would be large enough to   provide a place where people who want to live off the land, but have no means of buying a property, can come and live along side us and live that life too. They would live in their own spaces. We would not share living spaces. I have not thought out all the logistics, but the other day I was talking to someone who was asking me very direct questions about it all and I realized that I should let this dream grow more and nurture it. It may be a little odd, but it isn't crazy, and it is filled with kindness.

  This dreams stems from the society that I live in. More and more people are isolated and lonely and there is little connection to what is truly important. I grew up on a farm and so did my husband and my love of animals and taking care of them and being out in nature so much has never left me. It nurtures a body in ways that you can't realize unless you live it. Children are so free in this environment. They have amazing learning opportunities all around them. If we ever buy a property and start living this way ~ I don't want it to just be for us. I want to share it! I also want to be free to make more choices in health about the food I eat. Food here is often toxic and void of real nutrition and that really bothers me. There are just so many reasons why this lifestyle is filled with health and good!

  I can imagine an outdoor communal summer kitchen and some sort of facilities for showers and bathrooms. I can imagine sharing farming duties and working together in regards to field work and gardens. I have not thought past that. I don't know if people would come for summers and camp or how it would all work really. I think it would probably differ for each person/family coming.

   Part of this dream involves also making it so that my children can come back as adults and live with their extended families if they so choose.

   Connection brings joy, and giving of oneself does the same if it is done from a place of health.

  Who knows what will happen with this, but this dream has been in me for so long and it never goes away. There must be reasons.

Do you have any dreams that seem a bit far fetched and yet are always with you?