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This blog is about a girl's search for life's meaning. After reading Anna Karenina and several other novels, I have begun the trials and errors of a simple formula to self discovery. After spending last summer in Ghana, Africa, I head to WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) on the big Island of Hawaii for four and a half weeks.
This blog is a record of my journey and it's connection to my inquiry. Through labor, some isolation, and sharing my thoughts, I too can exclaim …[M]y life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but as the unquestionable meaning of the good which is in my power to put into it! (Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 817).

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First days

We are finishIng up our first couple days in Hawaii. After two pretty strenuous work days (learning how to use machetes tok cut down tall grass) we took a day today to explore Hilo and the farmers market. Lucy is reading Anna Karenina right now which is interesting because she is at the point in the novel when Levin mows a field with the Muzhiks in a similar fashion to the way in which we mowed. We are also feeding chickens and watering plants. Mostly, we are basking in the beauty of our surroundings and taking advantage of the laid back style in which hawaiians live. We chillin.

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The waterfall on Every One Grows, the farm we’re staying on this summer. I look forward to reflective showers.

The waterfall on Every One Grows, the farm we’re staying on this summer. I look forward to reflective showers.

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“Blest, who can unconcern’dly find/ Hours, days, and years, slide soft away/ In health of body, peace of mind, /Quiet by day.”  -Alexander Pope

“Blest, who can unconcern’dly find/ Hours, days, and years, slide soft away/ In health of body, peace of mind, /Quiet by day.”  -Alexander Pope

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“When Levin thought about what he was and what he lived for, he found no answer and fell into despair; but when he stopped asking himself about it, he seemed to know what he was and what he lived for, because he acted and lived firmly and definitely; recently he had even lived much more firmly and definitely than before” (Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 789).

“When Levin thought about what he was and what he lived for, he found no answer and fell into despair; but when he stopped asking himself about it, he seemed to know what he was and what he lived for, because he acted and lived firmly and definitely; recently he had even lived much more firmly and definitely than before” (Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 789).

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This search for the equilibrium regarding solitude and fraternity, extravagance and prudence, and work and rest is not a futile one. Those who struggle with their purpose must not sit and accept their seemingly inconsequential existences
—  Roni Finkelstein