In this moment I am grateful for my resilience and perseverance in the face of what often feels like a relentless barrage of challenges. Thanks also to my mum and her partner for giving me and Ivan a sanctuary space to gather some resource and keep moving forward.
Me and Ivan (the van) have been in beautiful Berkshire for a week now and I’m very grateful to be here. I’ve made a few connections with local business owners and a friendly volunteer at the Greenham Common Control Tower café. The view from the tower was lovely and I was amazed at how flat the area is compared to the landscape of Dartmoor where I’m usually based. After a chat about the café’s food waste strategy I was gifted a spicy bean pastry that was leftover at the end of the day. Thank you for that warm and tasty gift of support. I’m pretty low on social contact at the moment so I appreciate that there are places I can go to have at least a little conversation and human connection in my day.
I’ve had quite a few ideas for ways me and the fungi could collaborate and create with people, projects and businesses in this area. With my mum here and me living (or trying to live) a nomadic lifestyle it’d be great to set up some work for myself in this area as a way of funding and making the most of spending time with her. At the moment I’m wondering how much energy to put into that right now. I feel a strong need to focus on what it is I can offer or do at this point to start making some sales or gather in some financial resource another way.
For me this time of year is about dreaming into the year ahead and building up resource for more of a push into manifestation and movement around May or Beltane. Working with natural cycles such as the cycle of the year, moon and each day is very important to me and I intend to share more in future posts of how I do that and why I feel it so supportive of me and my work. At the moment I’m finding it very challenging feeling like I’m not able to honour the natural energy of this time. I believe I am incredibly close to manifesting a modest income and life situation that gives me the foundation to grow and thrive as the year progresses all in a way that I can be authentic to myself. It’s a dream I’ve held for a long time and put an enormous amount of work and effort into getting myself to the point I’m at in this moment. I know there is plenty more work to do and I’m so up for it but right now I feel very low on capacity having made it through one of the most challenging 6 months of my life. I could really do with a couple of months to tend to myself, get back into the natural rhythms that I find so supportive and super charge my vitality ready for that springtime push that I get very excited about, when I allow myself to dream into it.
A valuable opportunity on the developing a business side of things is that Rebel Business School are running their 2 week online training (its free and I highly recommend checking out their podcast) for Berkshire folk starting next week. Part of me feels like it could be an amazing opportunity to dive deep into the Rebel start up process alongside, and even working with, fellow participants who will mostly be fairly near by. A big part of me knows it would be very high impact on me to spend so much time on a screen and I’m unsure as to whether continuing to be based here with my mum for that time is the right thing for me. I’ve gotten in touch with Rebel Business School in case there is a way of doing the Berkshire event in person or getting some ideas/support from them to find a way to access their training in a way that works for me. We’ll see what comes back and I potentially could find a way to get up to Hartlepool in a couple of weeks for a course they are offering in person there. I love the idea of me and Ivan traveling up the country to attend the course, though at this point I’ve no idea how I would actually make that happen. We’ll see. Everything can, and does, change.
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Peace and Mush Love,
Chris Forest
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