To own a place of peace.

in #hive-1637723 years ago

To have peace in life is to have a precious gift that has no price.
125.jpg

As I lifted my arms on that hill, breathing in fresh mountain air in the silence, I could only feel the peace in my heart. Before I die, I want to turn this dream of mine into reality and yes, I do feel that the time will come to do this.
A small patch of land with no debts and no worries. What more can one want?
So come and have a look at my dream.

129.jpg

139.jpg

Far away from the traffic rush and the maddening crowds. Yet within a reasonable distance from a hospital due to failing health. A place where one can awake to birdsong and all of the other sounds of nature.
059.jpg

To build a simple little house suitable for basic living with a shower outside under the heavens to wash under the stars.
088.jpg

A little homemade bridge across a stream to our front door.
093.jpg

Marian helping me to restore her old tractor. (Remember this is a dream)
165.jpg

A place to look after her chickens and where she can play with her small goats. Oh we will also have fresh eggs and a cow for fresh milk.
109.jpg

116.jpg

Nature all round will be untouched and allowed to grow to its supreme best.
161.jpg

And of course many flowers to maintain the beauty in our minds.
030.jpg

Yes, we will also plant our own organic and fresh vegetables.
067.jpg

And a priority will be to have expansive views as it fosters one's freedom feelings.
063.jpg

Finally the ocean will also be within an easy reach for our afternoon walks.
160.jpg

A dream that has no pretensions or malice in it. Just to live untouched by the grind and disappointments of what we call life.
Something like my favorite poem.

Weaving our soul’s garments

We are all busy weavers. Forever are we throwing the
shuttle backward and forward, each moment leaving
one new thread in the web of our life, which shall stay
there forever. Every thought, every feeling, every motion,
every light fancy that plays but for a moment in the soul,
becomes a thread which is instantly a permanent part of the
life we are living.

Our words and acts are threads clean and
beautiful or stained and blemished, according to their moral
character. Thus we are forever weaving, and the web that we
make our souls must wear in eternity. How important it is
that we put into this fabric only threads of immortal beauty!

If we do God’s will always, and train ourselves to think over
God’s thoughts, and to receive into our heart the influences of
God’s love and grace, and to yield ever and only to God’s Spirit,
we shall weave for our souls a seamless robe of righteousness
which shall appear radiant and lovely when all earth’s garments
have faded and crumbled to dust.

In Green Pastures – JR Miller 1927

As they say; maybe one day this dream will come true for us.

And That's All Friends.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.

Thank you kindly for supporting a post on behalf of @papilloncharity

Sort:  

PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA!

PIZZA Holders sent $PIZZA tips in this post's comments:
papilloncharity tipped thebigsweed (x1)
papilloncharity tipped dswigle (x2)
joanstewart tipped papilloncharity (x3)
@papilloncharity(1/5) tipped @joanstewart (x3)
papilloncharity tipped therneau (x1)
papilloncharity tipped coquicoin (x1)

Learn more at https://hive.pizza.

Congratulation, nice place with great views

Thank you kindly.

Congratulations, your post has been added to Pinmapple! 🎉🥳🍍

Did you know you have your own profile map?
And every post has their own map too!

Want to have your post on the map too?

  • Go to Pinmapple
  • Click the get code button
  • Click on the map where your post should be (zoom in if needed)
  • Copy and paste the generated code in your post (Hive only)
  • Congrats, your post is now on the map!

My dream is not much different!
Have an Awesome Weekend!
🙋👍🏼🌄👍🏼🙋

Glad that you have a similar dream my friend.
May you also have a great weekend.

!BEER

Thank You!
Yes I do...
It was the plan here, 45,000 people ago...
But I may take the long road getting there,
A lot depends on how the next 3 months
play out...

Be Safe and Have an Awesome New Week!
🙋🌄🙋


Hey @lesmann, here is a little bit of BEER from @papilloncharity for you. Enjoy it!

Learn how to earn FREE BEER each day by staking your BEER.


The rewards earned on this comment will go directly to the person sharing the post on Twitter as long as they are registered with @poshtoken. Sign up at https://hiveposh.com.

Sounds like absolute bliss! Due to loadshedding the photos aren't loading...

You mentioned your health. I do hope it's not too serious?

Glad that you also like the dream my friend. Loadshedding at your end?
We were missed with the loadshedding today.

Can be serious if I don't control it, but the thing that I hate is a handful of pills every day.

!BEER

Ahhh, I see and I understand. Just glad it's under control.

Edit: Yep, loadshedding 😒

Doing what we can my friend and things are holding up. Ageing is not for sissies as they say 🤣
I hear that the Loadshedding will end on Monday evening 😉

!PIZZA


Hey @therneau, here is a little bit of BEER from @papilloncharity for you. Enjoy it!

Learn how to earn FREE BEER each day by staking your BEER.

Sweet dreams are made of this!
I hope you do realize this dream. It has all the qualities of perfection. Does Marian know she will be a repair woman?
My prayers for you and Marian 💖

Sweet and simple dreams indeed Lady Denise and that you for kindly stopping by.
Hahaha, Marian is already a repair woman, as we do everything together and 30 minutes ago we were in the garden planting Jasmine bushes. Too dark now and we will continue on Monday in the late afternoon, as too hot in the day.

Thank you for the prayers and as you know, they are reciprocated 🙏❤️❤️❤️

!PIZZA !LOLZ !LUV

@papilloncharity(2/5) gave you LUV. H-E tools | connect | <><

Why was Pavlov's beard so soft?
Because he conditioned it.

Credit: reddit
@dswigle, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of @papilloncharity
Use the !LOL or !LOLZ command to share a joke and an $LOLZ. (1/6)

Oh, the sweet scent of jasmine on a summer night! I do so love it. It wafts in and out, permeating the air.

I miss my old house with jasmine growing up the fences.

Always steeped in prayer. Goodnight from here, Stephen ❤️

Thank you milady and yes, it is also my favorite smell. Soon our surrounding fence will be all Jasmine and I also have one near our bedroom window.

Whatever the time there, we also wish you good evening and a good new week 🙏❤️🙏❤️

!LUV !PIZZA

@papilloncharity(1/5) gave you LUV. H-E tools | connect | <><

Thanks for the LUV!

It is only 1:40 PM, but your wishes will be good till evening. This week is going to be a busy one, aren't they all?

Jasmine under the bedroom window... how sweet! Literally.

So you are exactly 7 hours behind us and good to know milady.
Just had a call from and old farmer friend asking for prayers. Apparently there are some people in their area stirring up trouble and setting things alight.
We really live in a twisted world and we will go there on the weekend.

You should become a poet !LOLZ

Me and my mates are in a band called Duvet.
We're a cover band.

Credit: reddit
@dswigle, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of @papilloncharity
Use the !LOL or !LOLZ command to share a joke and an $LOLZ. (3/6)

A dream that I hope comes true for you sooner than later.
Every day I appreciate more and more the gifts that I have come to realize.

Thank you and you guys are already living my dream by grace Rob.
Glad to see that you are up and about and that the prayers of so many worked.
I cope with the knee by keeping my leg straight and stiff when we walk on gradients and it helps a lot.
All to His glory of course.

!BEER !PIZZA !LUV

@papilloncharity(1/5) gave you LUV. H-E tools | connect | <><

Good morning my friend. Thanks for everything.
Getting to know you has been a blessing that has made me a better individual.
Your unwavering faith is remarkable and motivation to live a life with greater awareness of everything that i should appreciate more.
We've been having a wonderful time in Florida and with some of the family presently visiting with us, it has been go, go, go.
The grandchildren have been having a ball and are keeping us on our toes.
By nightfall we're pleasantly exhausted. I'll tell you one thing, I've been sleeping like a log.
Thanks for all of the beer, pizza, and especially the luv and sincere replies.

Life is in shambles, best to dream and keep looking, somewhere soon a dream comes true!

!LUV
!BEER

@joanstewart(4/10) gave you LUV. H-E tools | connect | <><

You can say that again and we hear many bad stories in the charity world.
Thing is that I still have a few new community upliftment projects to launch, but time is slowly and surely running out and before I can think of us, the people come first.

So everything is a bit of a hurry curry at the moment.
Speaking of curry, I miss the bunny chows so much and nobody can make it like the people in KZN.

!LUV
!BEER

@papilloncharity(3/5) gave you LUV. H-E tools | connect | <><

People fleece others without batting an eye, this makes it difficult for the genuine charities to raise funds and move left or right.

Cooler weather curry was served Friday night here, I make my own which I learned via my Indian friends 🙂

!BEER
!PIZZA

Been in the charity field now in our 21st tear Lady Joan and very little that we haven't seen. Shamsters have indeed made it difficult for us to raise funding and we cannot afford a professional fundraiser.
An extra problem is that fundraisers don't work on commission anymore and they have to be paid a stiff monthly salary, which in itself creates other problems such as performance ...!

Ah yes, the Indians are the best at a hot Bunny chow and great that they have taught you.

!PIZZA
!BEER

Direct approach with people is far more rewarding, many are skimming of the top everywhere. Affiliate marketing in this country is not really something that took off, people always want a basic salary with possible cherry on top as well.

!LOLZ

I was going to tell a joke about hominy.
But it was too corny.

Credit: reddit
@papilloncharity, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of @joanstewart
Use the !LOL or !LOLZ command to share a joke and an $LOLZ. (2/4)

In the 3.5 years that we are now down here Papillon has not received one cent of income to cover our overheads, but we have simply continued with our work.
Thankfully we still have the conditional income for the trauma training and the feeding, but 100% of the amounts are transferred over to our partner non-profits that run the projects.

So yes, we cannot even think about paying a huge fundraisers salary, as it will definitely sink us.
Hopefully in a year or two I will have enough crypto to take out a regular 10% draw for Papillon.

!LOLZ

What rock band has a huge ghost following?
The Boo Boo Dolls.

Credit: reddit
@joanstewart, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of @papilloncharity
Use the !LOL or !LOLZ command to share a joke and an $LOLZ. (3/6)

I find it totally disgusting the way Lotto where money was set aside for NGO/NPO to continue have all been directed into get rich by handful. When Natal Lotto was run we always received subsidy into welfare systems, since ANC Government started the National Lottery is is all skulduggery.

We had a dream.... Did not last long, did it?
!LUV and hang in there, it's a strange, strange world we live in Master Jack!

@joanstewart(1/10) gave you LUV. H-E tools | connect | <><

We got money from Lotto in Papillon's early years, twice and not much to crow about.
Then a new owner took over and our application was "lost". A second one was refused as they didn't have enough money and that was the end of us and the Lotto.

I have read about some of their tedious alleged corruption acts, ring fencing the income to enrich a small circle of friends and it is shocking. The truth will not remain hidden even after a ton of denials and threats.

What dream ? Where? That so called dream was born with a wet nappy that was never changed.

!LUV and a lovely old song.

What a nice dream and I hope you reach it very soon. And that your health is not something to worry about.

Thank you for the kind wishes and if the dream is meant for me it will happen. If not then I am not going to worry about it as life goes on my friend.

!PIZZA

That is a mighty fine dream. That type of living is good for the mind and the soul. I do hope your wish comes true...

Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have this wish I wish tonight.

It worked for Geppetto, it may work for you as well.

Thank you kindly and yes, there is always hope.
I remember Gepetto vaguely and that star poem is indeed beautiful.

!BEER


Hey @old-guy-photos, here is a little bit of BEER from @papilloncharity for you. Enjoy it!

Do you want to win SOME BEER together with your friends and draw the BEERKING.