September 6th 2011 Today I climbed a 100+ year old tree. WOW! It was seriously like “Fern Gully” I must have seen at least 5-8 trees on my morning walk about that were 100 years old or older. One of them was a mango tree, with fruit just falling off the branches. I was amazed at the greatness and abundance of these trees. I mean, I must have only climbed 25-30% of the tree and I had to be 30-40ft high. Just as high as I have ever been in a tree before, but the other trees that I climbed stopped at 40 ft, this one just kept going up and up and up forever. If I hadn’t felt a little rushed to get to work I probably would have tried to climb a little more, but we know our lesson about trying to climb in a rush. Already learned that one thank you very much. TAKE IT EASY, one step at a time. Not to mention I was in my skivies. I really was just planning on going for a morning trek, and THEN I saw this tree and couldn’t resist, then before you know it I’m forty feet up in my underwear, looking out over the canopy over the bottom of the mountain and into the bluest ocean I have ever seen in my life. What a way to start the day. After climbing I must have gathered at least 15 avo’s that were just laying on the ground. Didn’t even have to pick them! On the mainland that’s about 30 bucks, 40 for organic. Talk about an effortless decrease in expenses, and increase in native nutrition. : ). Also I am really developing a huge attraction to the sounds of nature. All you can hear out here are the birds and bugs and wind, the leaves rustling in the breezy breeze. It is really beautiful. Beats the heck out of an ipod. I am also dreaming a lot lately and continuing to grow my ideas and expand my goals. I am learning more about what I want, and don’t want and I am so thankful for that. This all started with me learning about food, and where it comes from, and how our bodies react to it. I have learned so much in the last two years, and really grown tremendously. My first idea was just to have a farm. Anywhere, anytime, now, soon, WHATEVER! I just wanted a farm. I wanted to grow my own food. I wanted to be away from the commercialism that had been blinding me so much. Then I started to narrow it down a bit. What do you want to grow on your farm? Where do those foods grow really well? What kind of cultures to you like and want to learn from? Where is the good soil? Air? And water? Where are the people who are doing this already? Are they even out there? Haha. (They are). Once I started to learn about all these things that I wanted, then I developed THE place that I wanted to go. Maui. Little did I know that that was only the tip of the iceberg. So then I had the idea to go around and start farms all over the world, in those places that I love the most. The Tropics. Belize, Southern Mexico and Central America, South America, South Africa, Madagascar, Thailand, you know the AWESOME PLACES! The ones with the food that I like, and the cultures I want to learn from… Then I had the idea just to be involved with already existing farms, and just go there and help and do whatever I can. And now after meeting and being inspired by so many people who have been living there dreams for 40-50 years+ it is really showing me that I am on the right track and that DREAMS COME TRUE WHEN YOU PURSUE. The man who owns the land that I am living on now is in many ways the most inspiring person I have met on Maui. He started living on this land 32 years ago, and started planting trees before he even moved to the property. Now those trees are HUGE! And yielding abundant fruit and LOVE for everyone who would like to share. It is amazing. So then I had the idea to go around all over the world, and just start planting trees. PLANT TREES! PLANT ANYTHING! Plants and nature are healing. They are going to heal the earth in so many ways. Not to mention they love us, they give us fruit to eat and life and oxygen to breathe. How incredible. So now I have simplified one of my goals for the moment. It is just to plant as many trees as I can. Papayas, Avocados, Bananas, Mangos, Apple trees, orange trees, whatever because one day those trees are going to get really big, and they are going to feed some one just like me. And how much effort does it take to plant a tree? NONE! Especially when you live on MAUI> HENSE MY MOVE! (Sorry MOM I LOVE YOU and MISS YOU a lot). Anyway that’s my story for Wednesday September 6, 2011. Peace and love be with you all. DIG THE WORLD BE ORIGINAL. DREAM BIG! Keep coming back for more updates. And tell your friends. I can use all the support and feed back I can get right now. And LIKE ORIGINALAND on Facebook. Peep out the youtube channel as well. Aloha Joshua Gray Hamilton

September 6th 2011

Today I climbed a 100+ year old tree. WOW! It was seriously like “Fern Gully” I must have seen at least 5-8 trees on my morning walk about that were 100 years old or older. One of them was a mango tree, with fruit just falling off the branches. I was amazed at the greatness and abundance of these trees. I mean, I must have only climbed 25-30% of the tree and I had to be 30-40ft high. Just as high as I have ever been in a tree before, but the other trees that I climbed stopped at 40 ft, this one just kept going up and up and up forever. If I hadn’t felt a little rushed to get to work I probably would have tried to climb a little more, but we know our lesson about trying to climb in a rush. Already learned that one thank you very much. TAKE IT EASY, one step at a time. Not to mention I was in my skivies. I really was just planning on going for a morning trek, and THEN I saw this tree and couldn’t resist, then before you know it I’m forty feet up in my underwear, looking out over the canopy over the bottom of the mountain and into the bluest ocean I have ever seen in my life. What a way to start the day.

After climbing I must have gathered at least 15 avo’s that were just laying on the ground. Didn’t even have to pick them! On the mainland that’s about 30 bucks, 40 for organic. Talk about an effortless decrease in expenses, and increase in native nutrition. : ).

Also I am really developing a huge attraction to the sounds of nature. All you can hear out here are the birds and bugs and wind, the leaves rustling in the breezy breeze. It is really beautiful. Beats the heck out of an ipod.

I am also dreaming a lot lately and continuing to grow my ideas and expand my goals. I am learning more about what I want, and don’t want and I am so thankful for that.

This all started with me learning about food, and where it comes from, and how our bodies react to it. I have learned so much in the last two years, and really grown tremendously. My first idea was just to have a farm. Anywhere, anytime, now, soon, WHATEVER! I just wanted a farm. I wanted to grow my own food. I wanted to be away from the commercialism that had been blinding me so much. Then I started to narrow it down a bit. What do you want to grow on your farm? Where do those foods grow really well? What kind of cultures to you like and want to learn from? Where is the good soil? Air? And water? Where are the people who are doing this already? Are they even out there? Haha. (They are). Once I started to learn about all these things that I wanted, then I developed THE place that I wanted to go. Maui. Little did I know that that was only the tip of the iceberg. So then I had the idea to go around and start farms all over the world, in those places that I love the most. The Tropics. Belize, Southern Mexico and Central America, South America, South Africa, Madagascar, Thailand, you know the AWESOME PLACES! The ones with the food that I like, and the cultures I want to learn from…

Then I had the idea just to be involved with already existing farms, and just go there and help and do whatever I can.

And now after meeting and being inspired by so many people who have been living there dreams for 40-50 years+ it is really showing me that I am on the right track and that DREAMS COME TRUE WHEN YOU PURSUE. The man who owns the land that I am living on now is in many ways the most inspiring person I have met on Maui. He started living on this land 32 years ago, and started planting trees before he even moved to the property. Now those trees are HUGE! And yielding abundant fruit and LOVE for everyone who would like to share. It is amazing.

So then I had the idea to go around all over the world, and just start planting trees. PLANT TREES! PLANT ANYTHING! Plants and nature are healing. They are going to heal the earth in so many ways. Not to mention they love us, they give us fruit to eat and life and oxygen to breathe. How incredible. So now I have simplified one of my goals for the moment. It is just to plant as many trees as I can. Papayas, Avocados, Bananas, Mangos, Apple trees, orange trees, whatever because one day those trees are going to get really big, and they are going to feed some one just like me. And how much effort does it take to plant a tree? NONE! Especially when you live on MAUI> HENSE MY MOVE! (Sorry MOM I LOVE YOU and MISS YOU a lot).

Anyway that’s my story for Wednesday September 6, 2011. Peace and love be with you all. DIG THE WORLD BE ORIGINAL. DREAM BIG! Keep coming back for more updates. And tell your friends. I can use all the support and feed back I can get right now. And LIKE ORIGINALAND on Facebook. Peep out the youtube channel as well.

Aloha

Joshua Gray Hamilton

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