The start of an online post is an important development. The purpose of doing it online is to enable multiple people keep track of our life i.e. parts of life, we’d like to share. I’ll separately post a historical snapshot so that anyone following has a context.
The 10th day of the new lifestyle began rather late (7 am) given the continuing cold weather. The indiscipline in exercise continued. The house building endeavor continued languishing. No progress made on the ground on that front. In thought, we’re now clear that all we need to do immediately is to get any mason and have the walls of the two rooms constructed so that we can get staying before April sets in. One mason and a couple of laborers expected to come tomorrow. On another front, farming, I collected some more top soil from the forest, making it 6 ghamelas, which appears to be enough to sow the seeds. Spoke to Prithvi and felt nice. He made yet another appropriate observation that if the effort is too much, its worthwhile questioning if it is necessary. Suits me very well. Consequently, no more top soil collection. Will sow the seeds in whatever soil is available. But water is not available at the site of the house. Bhura (the Sreejan Karta) was to help me get a 2000 litre tank shifted to the site, but that hasn’t happened yet. Our effort to get 1 litre of cow urine also did not fructify today. It is quite some task to collect the urine if there is no auto-collection mechanism. No one seemed kind enough to help us. Our pathetic interpersonal skills yet again ensure that we’re unable to get help for ourselves.
What was good about the day was that there was some discipline with regard to food. Timely, nutritious and sufficient. All credit to Rekha. Another moment of enjoyment was to watch Siddharth, Shreya and Mukul (son of Santosh, another Sreejan Karta) enjoy getting wet in the sprinkler water. Kids seem to be spending quite some energy playing and roaming around the place. The appetite is showing up. Happy for them.
Despite not a very encouraging day, I felt it most appropriate not to force the pace on anything. Just sow the seeds for a solution by talking to everyone possible and wait for something to happen. It surely will. We’ve moved into this lifestyle to ‘be happy’. No point in creating anxiety and stress by trying to force pace. So what if another day has passed without moving forward as planned! Unplanned (not planned by our brains) progress is what I’d like. So what if we get late…big deal!
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