Here in the Blue Zone of Facinas the fertile earth of my land is bearing fruit.
This land has been tended for countless generations by the good folk of the village.
They know the true values of life: sharing, supporting, growing, nurturing and living joyfully with gratitude.
Above all there is a health to this place and one that is not rooted in the world of ten thousand things.
It is a contemplative mindfulness of being and a living embodiment of our most natural organisational state – the tribe.
Here hidden in plain sight is so much that we seek and strive for, yet it is overlooked in the struggle to decipher ancient texts and ephemeral truths of science.
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