Some Beauty and peace

I had to escape the city. It just seems to not do much for me. I had to come and enjoy one of my favourite places and lo and behold I ran into some South island friends as well. I had some enjoyable times with my stepmum at Mana and we shared Dinner in my truck but the wind and the noise was a bit much as I have a sinus infection at the moment and my head feels like a squashy tomato.
I love my work and I love giving people everything I got when I am working with them but to recharge quiet and nature especially water are essential.Next week the mad campers arrive here trying to get their spot before Christmas so thought this week was the one to connect with the beauty and loveliness. of mother nature. It fills me back up.
I have attached a few shots to share My friends will not feature here as true South Islanders the internet is suspect :)

Travel Pics

Some shots of the west coast of the North Island as I travel from destination to destination. What a truly beautiful country we are lucky enough to live in and I love exploring during the week when I have some time. 

Reflections

It will be 7 weeks tomorrow wow since I quit smoking.. Time does fly. I was feeling somewhat bored I think today and thinking about smoking. Weird at what times it pops up the gremlin. It needs a smack when it does that lol.

In September before I started this journey I was in A & E twice in Whakatane with suspected appendicitis, had been unwell with an array of bugs over winter including tonsillitis and just working was a struggle. I felt like hell until the 5th October when I quit. Tried no gluten, no coffee probiotics etc had a fever and no strength which is scary at 44 years old. I have to support myself for many years yet so decided to quit.

Within 2 days the pain in my side was gone , the fever was gone and I felt heaps better. Thank god as being a traveller I had no GP near me and was being given the brush off by the health system.

The decision was to take responsibility for my health.

I remind myself of this when I feel like I might fail on this quitting journey and although my body is doing some funny things repairing itself I feel pretty good.

So onward on this trip and forwards

Being free

Am in the process of getting free from smoking. It seems to be going well apart from the odd twinge.I have been blogging on the quitline site and it is an a very supportive environment.
Breathing is feeling pretty awesome and smells are just incredible ( good and bad :)
The weather this spring has been a bit challenging and am looking forward to more settled weather for the Fairs.
My truck has been a ratbag too. A new alternator ( which was supposedly brand new not very long ago) and a new tyre, after a blow out in just over a week is not helping but hey these things happen , hopefully thats it for now as i have a rego and COF coming up.
Am looking forward to heading to Taranaki and seeing the mountain again, after this week end in Rotorua , then Te Kuiti and we will be in Taranaki for a while. Have had some invitations in that area so am looking forward to visiting these folk and catching up.

Tonight it is dinner with a Rotorua couple I know who I sometimes stay with it should be lovely.

Life happens

In the last two weeks it has been time to start back at the fairs, hear about everyone winter experiences and adventures and catch up.
I also had to visits to Whakatane Hospital with possibly appendicitis but apparently it is not cute enough
 ( acute) to do anything about it, so I guess I better heal my self. Lots of neutral non irritating food and fresh water. And some self healing morning and night seem to be feeling better so it must be working. In Whakatane I meet some fascinating people every time I come here. People very strong in their culture and working in many ways to make life and education better for people.
This weekend is a tad windy, my awning is crashing and banging about and the truck is rocking as long as the awning stays put all will be well.
Last week end was the Kawerau Woodskills, a major event for a town being hit by the economics of this time. It is always amazing seeing the guys climbing up those great big poles.
Well Sunday we all packed up because it was windy and raining heavy. An awning had collapsed and a gazebo took off during the night. Bit of a shame that the weather turned like that. Today is a drying everything out day as my cab gets awfully wet when I put a wet awning etc in it.

Serafinas Say

Am loving Winter break. During the season we travel town to town and trade with the Gypsy travellers Fair in New Zealand and no we are not like the ones on TV. But we get a lot of people who come to see us. I don,t mind the tarot readings. 1 person at a time I can handle . But crowds at the stall phew too much. Now that i am older i stay in bed a lot as I get told off for scratching people who try to touch me.
Tell me who would want a couple of hundred strangers a day touching them?
At the moment we are at the beach, no strangers and mum is doing a lot of work on the net.
I love it I can sleep , play, sunbathe with no hassles.
And best of all I love our little log burner in our truck I sprawl out and soak that up.
Serafina

Being Good?

Being Good:

Being good? What exactly is that? Surely it is dependent on opinion, background, culture and preference?

What does good mean to you?

Some people enjoy hurting others but I feel that is not a genuine feeling but an expression of hurt and anger not being expressed and then coming out in bizarre ways.

Just be you, yourself. You are and always were good enough. You are right now a perfect expression of you. No one elses standards involved. Measuring up is not required. What makes you feel good, filled up, enriched and alive. Be real with yourself doing those things is good for you. So there is a whole lot of goodness here and there is no judgement involved.

Be real with yourself and others. That’s all, just be real.

Have you ever been told you were “good’ for not eating the cake on offer? There is nothing bad or good about cake, it is simply a choice, a choice to decide what serves you best right now. I personally think birthday cakes are always good because of the fun involved.

Here are some questions to ask yourself:

Is a tidy house good?

Is having a high paying job good?

Is being thin good?

I could go on but it really depends on what you want, what you prefer. When everyone is having fun, sometimes you get mess especially with children.

 It is just an opinion and a preference. If you look at old paintings peoples shapes were quite different. Does your body feel comfortable and performs when you want it to do things? Once again it is a choice or genetics maybe.

Be you that’s what counts! So give up being good and just be you.

Someone once told me I was a good girl (I’m in my forties) for doing a small job for them when I had finished mine. Well no I did not do it to be good, but to get everything done so everyone could relax.

No goodness about it, just choice)

Changes, turns and roudabouts and networking in these interesting times

Am loving Nature and have decided to avoid the news for a while. Seems to be predominantly negative.
If NZ was a business and sold it's assets it would go broke. If a plumber sold all his tools how would he work. Where did common sense get too. Life is becoming complicated and common sense seems to be a thing of the past. I hope it comes back.
It is bizarre watching these strange times we live in where the love of people for each other seems to be absent and the love of money rules. I know these times were predicted by many people but it seems a shame that humanity needs a wake up call quite this big.
Why not wake up now. See and realise we are all one and get on with creating great lives.
It is great to see community gardens popping up again. Growing your own food and a sense of community with it. How great.
There are some fantastic people out there doing some fantastic things and I would like to connect them with each other.
I started The NZ Conscious Peoples networking page on facebook to try and achieve this. Feel free to join. Share your vision your ideas and I feel if people can connect then we can support each other and share.
I have met fabulous
Teachers, community workers, people working in corrections, tourism and in many areas.
Here is the link to this page:
NZ Counscious Peoples Networking Group

Am busy painting my truck ( lots of work) lol. Am loving winter and the nice relaxing pace of not rushing from town to town.

I wonder if the world has gone crazy with all the rules and new excuses out there to bleed money out of the average person. New Zealand had such a great spirit please do not loose that, the can do attitude and the relaxed friendly people. I miss that. Let me know where in NZ people still live like that. It seems like a lot of my clients work like crazy but are are still struggling. there is something wrong there and deep in my soul I know it does not need to be like this. Give me your thoughts on this dear people.

The photo is of a very messy half sanded truck and the second of our beautiful earth to me an awesome place to live.

Talk to me on Facebook if you have great ideas on making life nicer and simpler. People need this right now.
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Winter Break Yippee

Have finished another season of fairs and am waiting to get my back brakes done in Puriri. Have the truck to paint as the oil stain needs to be sanded back and would look like a dogs breakfast so it is sand prime and then paint so am hoping for some good weather for that job. Miss Fiens my side kick has decided our logburner is god and stares at it for hours.Another bit of excitement was a fire in my cooker all the little gas lines in it are corroded and the burners rusty. Guess it was getting a bit ancient. One of my dear family has kindly decided my life was important and paid for a new cooker so installing that has been fun.It is a bit posh and I still keep grabbing a lighter to light it when it does not need one. So so far it has been all go.

A sign of the Times ?
I feel like life is moving very fast at the moment and I meet more and more people who would once have been middle class New Zealanders who are now struggling to make ends meet. Mums are returning to work when babies are still very young because  they have to.
I remember coming to NZ at age 12 and thinking what a wonderful place this is and it still is but very few get to enjoy it. People are working longer and longer hours to pay huge rents and mortgages am not sure where it will all lead but hope fully we will one day return to a society where people have time for each other and their families.
I would like to see people having time to live again rather than being so busy they do not have time to think. I had a discussion with a Greenpeace member in Pukekohe recently and I pointed out to her that if the social issues are sorted people will have time to think about the environment and the income to make more environmentally friendly choices.

Even though life on the road is becoming a lot more expensive than it was I love it and being able to stand back and look at things a bit more impartially helps.
My passion is to help people to have the courage to reach for a life they enjoy and a means of earning a living which has meaning and value for them.

Single and loving it. Is it terminal?

I well remember the first time I faced being single and was shit scared that was many moons ago now and I seem to love it more each day.
From what I see around me there is a huge amount of growth needed so people allow each other the freedom to grow and let go. Letting go seems to be lacking as people are still trying to control each other in sometimes not so apparent ways.It will be a great day when people allow each other the freedom to follow their intuition and not get threatened ( and I'm not talking about sex here) just life.
There are a few souls who seem to be living like this and it is truly great to see.So we would have a far nicer society if more people lived like that. Imagine the children from such unions. They would be bright indeed as their are encouraged to find their own interests and passions rather than being to strictly guided.
I find most human relationships lack freedom and growth most not all so being single suits me.
The best parts:
Having coffee in the morning and not needing to talk.
Being able to be spontaneous and not plan too much just follow my hunches and find where I want to stop.
Eating what and when I want
Not explaining myself to anyone

Well the list could go on.

I think having lived in my truck on my own for as long as I have( 10 years in this one and four in my bus) it has become my cave and with the intense work I do with people during the weekends and the huge number of people I meet I need that space.
Apparently I used to tell my parents to leave my room when I was 3 so maybe it started earlier I was far to busy with my games I invented and being an only child I guess was used to amusing myself..

I have been pondering this and am happy with who I am now and how I live and can not see myself giving up my spontaneity for anyone for quite a while. Maybe when I am old and wrinkly lol who knows.

Some new photos

Here are some shots of my fantastic life style. It is awesome and very varied.There are 3 of the inside of my house and some scenic ones and and a wet pack down on from after a fair

Clairsentience

Clairsentience is the psychic use of your sense of feeling, whether it's physical (touch) or emotional (concerning your sentiments). As you progress through this chapter, you will have an opportunity to examine your clairsentient abilities and develop strategies to use your psychic ability without becoming bogged down with too much information

Do you absorb feelings and/or emotions from other people, places, or objects? If you do, how do you respond to what you feel? The intuitive ability to feel is a wonderful gift. But it can also be a terrible curse. For those who are extremely open to clairsentience, it's as if feelings have the power to penetrate the very essence of their souls. This statement is true of many artists and healers

So if you feel you have this happening in your life, remember to detach, let go and clear your energy by imagining yourself surrounded by golden light often.

Crazy Christmas time and beginning 2012

It has been a very busy Christmas with 4 day Fairs in Upper Hutt and Masterton. Now we have one day before setting up in Dannevirke.
New Years was a very quiet event for me ( I slept through it) as it was pouring with rain and I was working the next day. The over all message so far with readings ( they seem to have themes at certain times) is for people to follow their passions and do what they really love.
So 2012 has a deep urge to get people on track with their purpose.
Here are some questions:
What comes easily and naturally to you?
What do you enjoy to do?
Are you creative, a people person or analytical, or may be more than one?

What would you be doing if you could live  your dream life ?