Fullness

Fullness: sitting in the sun in her old mismatched wooden chairs and talking about joy and perspective, listening to the kids reenacting the sequel of Rapunzel. Celebrating his patience at filming each and every act to create the movie they envision.
Eating: heirloom tomatoe pie, fresh asparagus with gremolata and rhubard kuchen for desert (she is my favorite cook!). 
After dinner walk to see their new house. The warm setting sun in my face. A little hand in mine. Yes, fullness.

Anticipation and sadness

My thoughts were split all day between aticipation for what is to come, and sadness for what we're leaving behind.

10 days and counting..

If you thought you noticed a little skip in my step today, I’d say you were right.

Adventure planning

Adventure planning is how I frame our lives. I feel naked without those plans, never quite at peace until we schedule the next adventure.

For over a month, we have been parting with stuff, giving most of it to friends and family members. We have stored a few Rubbermaid bins full of memories and precious little things we really wanted to keep in our friends’ attic, but we are getting rid of most of the possessions that cannot travel with us. Many people have wondered how hard it must be to let go of our things and to be honest, it really doesn’t feel that way for me. 

Paring down to the bare minimum actually feels great! Stuff really do weight us down! And it becomes addictive. You want to see what is the next thing you can let go of. What you truly really need. I don't want the bus to be crammed with stuff. I want it to breathe.


When we will want to settle down for a bit after our travelling, there will be furniture to be found on craigslist or furnished house to rent. For now, we won’t need all that much. And it’s a pretty good feeling.

I really do feel at peace.

Imperfections

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
~ St. Augustine

TV Production

We were interviewed today by our friend Simon who is a TV Producer. He is working on two different projects that we will be part of, one for the National Film Board (NFB/ONF) and the other one for TV5 (in France) on people living in their vehicules and living with passion. He will follow us for 4 days this summer when we will be in the Yukon. It's quite exciting to be part of something like that!

Angels

As we were chopping veggies, I told Mara: Do you remember when we flew to Costa Rica two years ago you asked me if we would see angels? She chuckled, then very seriously said: I know, that was silly. Angels live much higher up, closer to the sun!

:: I just love Mara's art : it speaks so much of who she is ::