Co-creating a More Beautiful World
On losing home and rediscovering it once again, loss and failure, renewal and rebirth. This is a distilled version my journey so far. This post originally featured in Gather Zine, a magazine for writers and readers alike who have an interest in literature, ecology, wellbeing, and spirituality. I am honoured to have my writing included! I left home at age...
Authentic Living / More Beautiful World
by Olivia Grundy · Published 08/11/2024 · Last modified 12/11/2024
Sometimes you are just in the right place at the right time. Some would just call this a coincidence. Others would proclaim it evidence of the synchronised nature of life. Others still might just brush it off as a stroke of good luck. Any of them and all of them may be true. But one thing is for sure, when...
Authentic Living / Back to the Land
by Olivia Grundy · Published 26/04/2024 · Last modified 28/04/2024
Seven months into this narrowboat life. I am sitting on my fold out table looking out at the water from my floating living room. The early morning sunlight blinds me a little as I write. I can hear the twinkling song of birds that I am yet to be able to identify. It is a crisp spring morning; finally some...
This post is the post that I never thought I would be writing. After three and a half years of dreaming of going back to the land, of writing about it and sharing it, my worst case scenario has come true. The dream has collapsed. Hence my silence over the last three months. Not really knowing the best way to...
Taking a leap of faith once again into the unknown as I follow my heart obediently towards the type of life I want to live. Written Mid April 2023 Three years post pandemic and we have war waging, the cost of living souring and threats of economic crisis whispering in our ears. It could be argued, and with much...
This post starts where the previous one left off, with me trying to make my way on my journey from employee to entrepreneur, on the quest to bring my radical dream of going back to the land a reality. December 2022. I was preparing for a frugal Christmas after months of living thriftily after I quit my 9-5 teaching...
At the end of June 2021, I quit my stable job at the language academy where I had worked for 7 years to pursue a radical dream of leaving the city, returning to the land and embarking on a new vision for myself and the world. When I took that leap of faith, I had no doubt that I...
I believe we all have hidden gifts and talents that we don’t even know we have. In this post I share how, by following my hearts calling, I first discovered I could write. Written in celebration of the three year anniversary of this blog, I hope that it can inspire others to discover their own hidden gifts and encourage...
After a summer of rural living, coming back to the city has been a shock. Despite my last post, in which I spoke positively about living with uncertainity, the realities of my uncertain life situation upon returning to Madrid have shaken my confidence some what. After blogging about my dream of leaving the city to embark on a earth-centred...
This post follows on from my last one, in which I fill in the gaps about what has happened since I quit my job to follow my dream of leaving the city and starting an earth-centred life in the countryside. Here I deal with the biggest challenge that I have come up against in my quest to make my...
Join me as I transition from the city to the country, following my hearts desire for a more sustainable life based on respect for the Earth and all the creatures in it. Let’s co-create a more beautiful world!
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