Diary of the Jungle Goddess: Day 38

It has been 38 days since I have been living in Hana, Hawaii with no phone/car/running water/gridded electricity or worries :) What I DO have in Hana, Hawaii is beautiful jungle all around, my Beloved Wolf showing me the roots of living from the land, THE LAND, space for gardens and groves, newly planted seeds, sprouting seeds, fresh flowers outside my front door, papaya trees by my window, SILENCE, my trusty little MacBook, new friends, new opportunities, a fabulous community of Hawaiian natives, fresh fruits falling from trees, and lots of interesting stories already!
There is no "bathroom" here. There IS a self composting toilet. So, I don't flush anything. I turn a crank and it makes poop to soil that in seven years can be used! We also compost all of our veggie waste and eggshells. Good for the garden! We also compost our grass clippings and raked leaves. Good for the worm bin we made, which in turn is also good for the vegetable garden we are growing :)
There is no running water coming from any town or city, but there IS a rain water catchment system, generator and propane tank so we still have the luxury of a hot shower (until the wind blows out the pilot light ;)
There was a flock of three hens and one rooster. Then, the storm came and rearranged the land and some animals and all of a sudden we had two roosters, six hens, and a random donkey. Our neighbor caught the donkey, and then two crazy local boys stole our roosters, leaving six hens with no roosters. Two hens ran off. We built a coupe for the rest. For a while, we were able to harvest eggs that were UNfertalized/UNpasturized/Free Range/Organic/GMO Free and LOCAL! How amazing! Then a mongoose attacked and ate one hen :( Another mongoose attacked another hen (I watched it try to bite off her head! Wild!), but I saved her. The chickens did not want to hang out anymore after that. (I don't blame them). They are freaked out that there roosters got taken and that their peers were being picked off by the mongeese (plural for mongoose). I am over the crazy mongoose infestation, to be honest. They are an invasive species, brought over by the white man to rid the island of rats. Well, the mongoose hunts by day and rats hunt by night. So, there are lots of both, and not many chicken eggs to be found anywhere (favorite snack of Mr. Mongoose). I am working on being at peace with these little critters who also like to eat my bananas...
Speaking of little critters...Rats like to live in the sugar cane that is all around our hale (little jungle hut). They kept coming in at night. There were two. They liked to sneak in and eat our avocados and fruits ripening in the window sill. We could hear them and would flip on the light, but they were too quick. We saw them once slipping out through a small hole in the screen. We patched the hole. They made another one. There was a game going for about two weeks and then one night Wolf snapped after the rat actually ran across his face in the middle of the night. (EEKS! Glad it wasn't me.) Very quickly after the light came on there were two dead rats being tossed into the cane grass. Moments after he tossed the rat carcasses outside we heard an owl screech and swoop. Dinner for the aum'akua (ancestor spirits in the form of animals)...
We hitch hike 50 miles into Paia to get out provisions once or twice a month. We hitch and walk everywhere. It's not hard, but it is a lot of energy. I am looking forward to getting a truck for sure :) In the meantime, however, one of my favorite things to do is hitch around on the Hana Highway for two reasons. Reason one...it is SO DAMN BEAUTIFUL! I feel incredibly blessed to be driven around each turn and twist so I can fully appreciate each new view, each ray of sun, each crevice of the valley. Reason two...all of the people that pick us up have some sort of amazing clue on how to live life in a better, more wonderful, magical way! I love it here, truly.
Wolf built a sweatlodge on the property. We held a ceremony last week and two other beautiful souls joined us. The four of us sweat, chanted, sang and shared story for an entire afternoon and it was profound. I am grateful to have a partner who is conscious in leading such lodges, and has the heart centered desire to do so.
I have been creating left and right. Wolf really inspires me with his insanely complex wire-wraps, dream-catchers, and chocolate making. I have been getting my hands dirty with all sorts of situations. I have been enjoying making art to sell with him at the fruit stands and to tourists. I have been creating all sorts of smoothies and raw food concoctions. I have been writing poetry and taking the time to blog more often. I feel the surge of words coming deep from within, and it feels good to begin preparing the space for it to finally flow through. I want to write books. This is the beginning. Thank you for bearing witness!
I love the HI Life! A life of rainbow delights in every facet. Waterfalls here, lush gardens over there. Fruit falling here, butterflies and birds flying there. God is everywhere, and here, at her most magnificent.
I am grateful to be living sustainably, joyfully, and creatively in one of the most lovely locations on Earth! Thank you for following your bliss and mine. ALOHA!