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An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

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live upstairs from Above and Beyond, it quickly sold<br />

just as the market started to collapse. We hired an estate<br />

sale business to sell everything else we owned<br />

except <strong>for</strong> personal items that we shipped by the post<br />

office. We escaped just in time.<br />

Home<br />

In late April 2005, I returned to Hawai’i. We held a<br />

farewell party at our house the night be<strong>for</strong>e I left. I<br />

stayed in a Hilo hotel <strong>for</strong> one night and then in a vacation<br />

rental gazebo <strong>for</strong> a couple of weeks. I got back<br />

to the land the morning the surveyors were here. I<br />

hand cleared the jungle removing invasive species to<br />

better see it and set up camp. I felt like Adam in the<br />

Garden of Eden, and I missed my Eve. Jahnava joined<br />

me after she finished packing and visiting her family<br />

in Cali<strong>for</strong>nia.<br />

I bought a 1998 Mazda B4000 pickup and<br />

rented a storage unit in Keau’u to put our belongings<br />

in. When Jahnava arrived, we moved into our tent<br />

and put up a tarp kitchen. My Rasta friend Conrad in<br />

Grand Rapids lived in Hawai’i <strong>for</strong> a long time. He<br />

taught me to build with pallets, use a propane refrigerator,<br />

and other jungle survival skills.<br />

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