Freedom, Togetherness, and Work from a Storybook Farm
Updated: Sep 21
What a way to greet the spring. From a cabin on a storybook farm, I held the third webinar of our 9-month home harmonising project yesterday. If they listened carefully, our participants could hear newborn lambs bleating outside my window and a stream flowing by.
There are interesting people joining us from everywhere: Taiwan, Hawaii, Scotland, and even Tasmania, all moving their bodies, transforming their homes room by room in real time, and feeling pretty impressed with the 'before' and 'after' photos they bring into being. My favourite kind of parties.
If you click on this, you'll see what we've been up to these past months, re-arranging and re-inventing daily life.
There are always inspiring stories that come out of these sesssions.
For one Home Love participant, two big jars of mulberry jam from 2020 went into one family’s compost, and what was their 'dark cavern' now only holds food they actually want to eat. Another family’s collection of homemade ferments is now prominent in the fridge door, like a stained-glass display, where they can catch someome's eye and be gobbled up as intended.
"Instead of asking the family 'what do you want for dinner?' I now ask the fridge" said another participant.
We close with a ritual called 'I am embracing'. Every person shares a one-word new way of being that the webinar inspires in them, and a felt gesture that goes with it.
'Decisive' says one, with a samurai-style cutting gesture. 'Conversation' says another, with a back-and-forward gesture that shows she now in two-way communication with her fridge. We all mimic her gesture, to let our bodies feel what she is feeling, and giving us a chance to carry that new energy into our own month ahead. We get who we are from each other.
After the revelry of 'I am embracing', I say goodbye to the group, turning off the computer, and stroll over to the farmhouse for my second party.
In no time we pick daffodils and whip cream to decorate the birthday cake we made the night before, ready to surprise lovely Matilda. She and her bloke Jess are the farm’s newest crew members, living in the renovated greenhouse and being a blessing. I had a fun playlist on me from the Webinar action-section, so we played 'Banana (Oh na na), and the baby got us up dancing baby cha-cha.
I’ll leave the farm in a few days. For most of Spring I'll be on the move, and my work will come with me. Each month I’ll return to this company of people, wherever we all happen to be. Maybe there will be easy parties and instant friends along the way. These things happen.
Internet, I love you! Our next webinar is “Enchant Your Workspace”. I may be delivering it while gazing out at a rainforest, a whole new soundtrack.
Together, we’ll make inviting places for the work we want to do: home studios, workplaces, or a work-tray that lets the kitchen table become a satisfying pop-up office. I don't want anyone to feel the confusion my creative, unruly younger self tried to work in. We’ll untangle cords, give papers somewhere useful to go, and bring our compassionate enquiry to the places where we get stuck.
Because this project is so much fun, so rewarding, and so needed, Katie and I are doing it again, from June 2027 to February 2028.
If you’d like our company as you re-arrange and re-invent daily life, join the 2027–28 waitlist here. Joining is free. You’ll receive free tasters of the work, along with enrolment details when they’re ready, and have plenty of time to decide whether the full project is right for you.
I’m off now to eat leftover apple spice birthday cake.
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