Continuing Development of Shambhala

Greetings my dear friends. It has been a long while since I’ve posted much, as so much has been happening all at once that I can barely keep up, and my time at the computer has been very minimal.

The good news is that we have finally begun to settle our land! We acquired three new parcels contiguous to and close to our current Motherland, and though we are totally understaffed, we are going ahead with the initial work to make the land liveable over the winter for people of all comfort needs. (One of our settlers is a lady in her seventies, so she’s not game with living in a tent over winter.) I was responsible for setting up our base camp, to be used by the land team as we begin building the first infrastructure of our community. I initially went out to the land with plans to stay there and be working there full time, but there is still so much to do here in town that I am needed yet, doing lots of back and forth between the land and here.

I spent several days alone on the land, scouting and developing trails. It was an awesome time, and I got to cover lots of ground and get much more familiar with the terrain. Once our friend Tom arrives from LA, we will really begin doing serious work. He’s bringing his whole shop and all his tools up, and he knows how to get things built.

It’s all quite exciting, though it’s quite exhausting as well. Our work on the land has been sidetracked by a wild situation arising: Rolando found on the internet that somebody was about euthanize two Belgian draft horses that they couldn’t take care of, so he went and rescued them. This was all very last minute, in the midst of tons of other stuff going on. And to top it all off, the truck didn’t do so well hauling 4000 pounds of trailer up and down all the hills around here, and Rolando got stuck somewhere overnight, managing to find lodging with some nice people and make friends with a man who works for BLM.

Then the next day, after he got the truck fixed, he struck out again, only to have the same problem. He figured out that the transmission fluid was overheating, and he just took it really slow, stopping a lot and adding fluid, and finally getting the horses to this completely providential location where he managed to find some stables for them, totally last minute. Some friends of ours are living on this property a ways up the road, and the place has a really nice double stable with fenced in corrals and pasture. They were totally excited to get to work with the horses and try to get to know them (these animals have been free grazed and are not halter broken) while they stay there for a while. Eventually we will get some stables and a corral built up on the land and take them there. But for now, they need human contact. The arrangement for them now couldn’t have worked out any better, and it was fun going out there and helping to get them settled in. They are such beautiful animals, male and female, three years old. They’re enormous, and they’re still going to grow.

I took a load of hay up, and we also went to a co-op for some more feed, a whole truck load of it. They should be nice and comfortable, with some good people to look after them. I enjoyed getting to hang out with Sam, McKanah (I have no idea how she spells that) and Sophia again, and it was a fun day.

There’s all sorts of other business to attend to around here, most of which doesn’t interest me in the least, but someone’s got to do it, so here I am slipping on my sunglasses, flicking through the ipod, and shifting back into the Matrix to do some business. The land awaits me, and I will hopefully be back out there tonight, but I’ve been hoping that since Monday, and now the truck is broken down again, needing a new transmission. We shall see.

The most intense and confounding part of the drama that is unfolding out here is a story I cannot go into at the moment, but let me just say, my life is far from dull. A great deal is being asked of me right now, and I am rising to the call with all my strength, sworn to hold this vision, to protect our Motherland and our entire Earth from all toxins and harm.

A vision that I have mulled over and dreamed upon for many years now is finally coming together, and it is the grandest thing to behold. Thank you to all who support me in this, and I look forward to sharing more details, and posting some pictures. I took some of the horses, and of the really incredible waterfalls out on the land. I had heard about them and thought, oh yeah, sure…. but then I saw them…. man.

So yeah, take care everyone. I’m not sure how much I’ll be in touch, but I’ll do my best. Peace and love shall heal the Earth!

Published by McCool on June 25th, 2009 Tagged News

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