In Love with Life

Saturday, May 12, 2018

High on Life

Hello!

Sun makes me happy. After such long dark winter it seems like we finally have our well deserved late spring. How wonderful!

Everything seems so much brighter. People smile, trees blossom and the bees are having little races in the air. I love this collective happiness. The energy bounces in the air and I just randomly smile at everybody. At last, sun, you are back.

How long it has been? Nearly 7 months that I've been living in Bristol, whaaaaaat?!

But let me tell you my little love story between me and this crazy city.

You know that feeling when everybody loves something and they keep telling you how great that thing is and then they ask what do you think and you feel like it's wrong to say something opposite because everybody just love that thing so much. Well, that's how I felt about Bristol for a while. I liked it but it was far away from loving it.

In the past few months everything changed. I joined the tribe. The tribe of people who kept telling me how great this place is. But it wasn't the city. It was people that live here. Again this collective energy thing.

I found perfect job- working in a really sweet and laid back vegan/veg cafe, serving amazing food and being able to make that food. Not just serving people but actually cooking and experimenting with plant based ingredients. Not long it was that it changed my diet too. I ditched the rest of the things I always wanted to ditch and felt inspired to be able to make clean and guilt free food.

Dancing became something I started to adore. No wonder why ancient tribes used (and still use now) dancing as shamanic healing experience. It felt amazing to share my dance love with others. I felt uplifted, I felt that I can be free with music and movement, I felt that I could strip off all my fears and dive into the present moment effortlessly. And partner dancing is something magical. I felt that I learned an ancient language. Language that lets me communicate with others without words.

I realised how long I've been reading about the things that I am interested but not applying them in real life. So I started to experiment with making my own stuff. Like deodorant, toothpaste and shampoo. I feel like I was tricked by society to have that need to buy these products and just realised how simple is to live more naturally.

I connect more with my body now. I want to know my real self, I want to feed my soul with activities I love and care for my body and mind. Our lives can be so short, the time is so precious that wasting it on the things you don't like is not worth it. Especially in my case, being born in the country that lets me travel free, having healthy family and friends and having so much inspiration and positivity around me.

Learning massage therapy helps me to connect with my body too. I feel so privileged to be able to move, to be able to see and touch and feel. To be able to have a long run with no pain, to be able to dance until the clothes are covered in sweat, to be able to appreciate what I've got.

I am high on life and although not every day is happy and joyful I'm so fascinated to be part of my own life journey.

I felt like the collective energy in this place pushed something inside me, can't tell you really what exactly it is. Or maybe just again I felt at home. Like in all places I lived so far. Can I call this my own personal skill? To find home wherever I go?..

You all still have one month left to visit me before I fly away again... <3

Ligita

while visiting Dom in the Alps..

spring is here

cute clouds!

cake time

hiking times

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Urban Life and Thousand Hobbies

Hello my dear ones,

It's been a long time since I was inspired to write something. Is that what city life does it to you?

It's been more than 3 months that I've been indulging the city life. How is everything? Good, fast, overwhelming. I managed to change 2 jobs and now very very soon will start the course that brought me to this city in the first place.

Bristol is wet. But also very alternative, very vibrant. It can be dirty and noisy but it has quite a beautiful soul. It is still growing on me. Sometimes I look at its surface and I think it's just like another city in UK. But then weekend comes or my evenings off work and it just surprises me again.

The music is amazing, and gosh how lucky we are to have such a wide range of beautiful sounds. It makes me cry sometimes to see so many talented musicians sharing their music.

I always loved dancing, in fact I even remember when being a child I had a dream to be a dancer. Have I told you how I fell in love with Lindyhop? What beautiful energy this dance has, what creativity, playfulness. No matter how tired I am I try not to miss my Monday classes, I always come back home from it being high on life. And it's the best feeling in the world.

Have I told you how many great projects, volunteering organisations Bristol has? How wonderful is to see people dedicating their time and even lives to make changes in the lives of vulnerable. Aren't we all here on this planet for that reason too?

Have I told you how creative it is, how mindful it can be?

I dearly miss nature and the sun but Bristol surprises me every time. Now I can definitely admit there is something in the air, something that holds me here, as if Bristol would be whispering to me ''hold on, and I'll show you my best''.

It's nothing special here if you look at it with your eyes, but there is something really special if you try to feel this city.

My place is open for all of you my dear friends. I wanna share my discoveries with you, come!

Your city dweller,

so proud of Tony!!!

sunsets are still my favourite

one day I'll live in a boat!

famous Bristol suspension bridge

still autumn colours

i love dramatic skies

we had some snow too!

Bristol is full of interesting houses

allotments on a sunny day

beautiful trip to Exmouth

Exmouth

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Mountains and Fruit Paradise. Summer is Back

Hola,

When 3 months ago Dom suggested to surprise my mom while she was going on holidays to Madeira it sounded like a great plan. I haven't been in Lithuania for a while but, no offence, a week in a sunny mountainous island sounded so much better than probable rain and grey clouds back in a homeland.
So tickets were booked and a careful plan was prepared to get all the information needed without my mom even having a tiny clue that I might be travelling that way.

And then I did a mistake booking tickets with Monarch Airlines. Now some of you will probably know that a month or so ago 5th largest UK's airline went bankrupt. No tickets no money back. Plan B?

Luckily because of moving so much I tend to have great friends all around. Manchester guys hosted poor travellers and few days later we were smiling while sitting in the plane going to Madeira.

Plan worked, my mom was shocked and happy to see her wanderer daughter right in front of her. How, why, when all these questions were asked, well, no wonder why sometimes I am called the fox. Sneaky girl!

Madeira is beautiful. Lush mountains with fertile land giving bananas, passionfruits and all sort of other exotic fruits. No trashy tourists, not even a brittish (sorry, I still love you guys) puking on a corner. Humble and sweet locals with delicious cuisine and warm like tea ocean. Hiking is amazing and the island never heats up more than 30 degrees giving you this warm perfect air temperature all year round. I must say, I did say to Dom that I wanna move there.

If you know any job going there, please let me know. I wanna come back to the paradise.. :)

To slowly adapt to chilly and grey North Europe we stopped for few weeks in mainland Portugal. Great times again, seeing family and friends, getting to know central and north Portugal. Now this time I was like crazy japanese taking pictures of so many portuguese tiles. I am in love with patterns and if I would have a permanent house I would tile every inch of it.

Volunteering not far from an area most affected with recent fires made me quite sad. I never realized how many fires Portugal gets every year. How much wildlife dies, not mentioning flora or even people..

Summer is over once more again. I am back in a colourful autumn. Bristol is my new home. Yes, from a countryside girl I am turning into an urban city dweller. Just to see why so many people love this place. I'll let you know.

I am easily to reach now, so dear close friends no excuses for not visiting.

P.S. If you know some nice place to work, give me a shout. I am actively hunting for one.

with much urban love,

Ligita