Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Living the Bio, Eco, Natural Way is wonderfully .. GREAT!!

Never before have I lived closer, together and deeper with nature.
Nor have I left such a light ECO footprint before.
We are in a 106 year old farm house, nestled between the school and the church, in Ujfalu. Just past Oakland and a hundred and twenty five kilometers from where I was born, in Marosvasarhely. This is one of the most beautiful countrysides anywhere, mountains, lakes, fishing and camping all here for centuries, always admired and always a great pride to even those that plundered it.

What we have for breakfast, cereals and grains come from our field. At lunch we serve a salad with a dozen vegetables from the garden, same with the herbs and spices. The fruit trees have been here much longer than the Vizels, who purchased this little dream hide away, just three years ago, and they have given much fruit since.

The pulp and the remains of the fruits , even the husks from the corn-on-the-cob, all are sent back to Mama's pigs, horse and other animals.
The shells of the eggs she brought us, we give back to her so she then adds it to the feed for the chickens.

Yes, "everything" is recycled and we reuse many things as well as the water.
We drink from "our" well and the water inside the house also comes from the well, so we wash dishes and ourselves in warm water.
The "healing water", we Import with the horse and a cart, once a month, in a 10 hour journey, 30 kilometers there and back, this nectar, that the older ones drink for centuries.

This past weekend we witnessed the Annual Harvest Festival. Both our neighbors, the teacher and the priest's wife, invited us to go along with them to see the young participants get ready for the evening.
The views, the sights and all the pomp and splendor of the annual Harvest Ball with the younger ones dressed in their traditional outfits, the King of the Ball with other fellows riding their horses about, while the horse and buggies take the rest of them from town to town to announce the evening's Ball. You really must be there to hear , smell , see and mostly feel the excitement in the air.

This is the closest I came to live the life that I have preached and believed is necessary for all to live. Simple, efficient and effective living, so all can live same way.
Without this radical move, I never would have imagined the positive effect that this has on my two boys.They have more friends here, than they ever had in Budapest, mind you they have been coming here, for 2-4 weeks 1-2 times a year for three years. Everyone seems more friendly, and caring here than everywhere else, with the exception of Seychelles. Speaking of, what better way to prepare us for the Sesel Way of Living! This is the WorldShift2012 in REAL TERMS for us. We are now showing the way and sowing the seeds for the future generations to come.