So the day is fast coming — the decision has been made. I am moving to my land. For 2.5 years I have toyed with this idea on a daily basis, each day the feelings growing stronger and stronger, the call from within no longer deniable. So here it is, I have made the call. At the earliest convenience I shall leave the comfort of community life, which I have lived for over 8.5 years, and go it solo. My heart has been calling this pretty much from the day I legally received guardianship of the land, but the fears from my mind were too loud, and they dampened my heart's voice. Some of these fears still linger a little — the fear of being alone mostly — but I also know this is just noise, and that when I am truly connected to myself, the land and spirit, I am never really alone. That feeling, that emptiness, evaporates. So as a little backdrop for context. I live in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Here we are blessed to live alongside the original people of the territory, the Tairona, made up of 4 tribes — Kogui, Arhuaco, Wiwa and Kankuamo. I am also very blessed that I work closely with a Mamo, a spiritual leader from the Kogui tribe. As a foreign person in someone else's home, it makes sense to present myself and ask for permission to be here. This is essentially some of the work undertaken with the Mamo. He is my spiritual guide whilst I am the part-time caretaker of this little plot of land I have been blessed to take care of. Mamo Alejandro gave the land the name Winmakũ. It translates to — A Place of Healing Light. We are in many processes together. It feels incredibly reassuring to know that I have a direct channel to such a wise elder, and it gives me a lot of confidence to know that the Mamo is helping me in the spiritual realm to ensure only light radiates from this land under my tenure. A lot of the work revolves around making payments in the spiritual realm. This is done at the sacred site that the Mamo located on the land — the only big boulders. An example of this process would be me asking for a wife and a family to be received into my life. With the Mamo I make a payment for this — you could say I am buying a wife and a family in the spirit world. The payment is made by placing cotton in my left and right hand. Into the left I place all of the negative thoughts I have ever had about myself. When I have finished unloading everything that comes up, I take the right and do the same, but this time depositing all the positivity I have towards life and love into the cotton. Both are given to the Mamo, who then does some of his own work on them before placing them in a little cave beneath the two big boulders. The significance of this sacred site is the point where the masculine and the feminine meet. The boulder represents the masculine, loving presence, which is constantly in contact with the earth — the feminine. Everything is in balance at this point, so too the negative and the positive. The permission and the payment have been made. Now I go back to work and grow the trees and plants that will feed my family! Below is a little picture of my love shack and a surprise harvest — a signal that I am already receiving the abundance from the land! And for those that don’t know, because I didn’t know before I started growing pineapples, the shoots of the side of the pineapple are the seeds for planting another 4 which will give in 2 years. Solid PoW… plant one, get a pineapple plus the opportunity to plant another 4!! Not a bad return!