Posts-for-Pay
What are Posts-for-Pay?
These posts spring or ooze from rich and muddy beauty of life as we live it, we observe it all. My Kanaka relations call this kilo; paying attention.
For ten years I have written and left 'medicine stories' on the cloud, offered my spiritual practice of makua o'o, shared our life from a Golden Wagon, documented the building of a safe nest of a home on wheels and many other blogs on the internet for any who wandered there. No charge. I wrote the medicine, and served the community as part of my healthy practices, and wrote and wrote and wrote my way here. I found a way through the challenges of living with a condition without a cure. Life really needs no cure. Life is the remedy.
Now, I turn around and face the other way and begin writing posts-for-pay. I have a body of work offered in non-profit service, and now I need to ask for patronage for the writing that has entertained, informed, provoked.
These posts-for-pay will include poems, musings, experiences with the real time challenges of a mobile life at seventy years plus. My posts ramble often, and link with ideas and times forward and back in a uniquely Mokihana-style. I hope to continue to enliven your world through the words, images and myths born from a creative everyday.
Why now?
For every $25.00 earned in a day I can pay the 'rent'. Earning my way by creating these posts with my word weaving of myths are as much for my tale bone as yours. As a new friend, and writer said to me the other day, she writes because she must. Me, too.
We live in our Golden Wagon because she's the most beautiful, cozy, safe and lovable space we know on this Earth today. She, this wagon, is home. We have learned to live from her in the past ten years, and learned too that we are part of the modern nomads making our way from campgrounds here and there to be part of this whirl.
Our lifestyle is simple though not easy, and authentically sustainable.We live close to the bone on our fixed income of Social Security checks. Pete's capacity to negotiate and trade work for services is legendary, and over the past years my blogs have become a source of inspiration and education as we patch or safety pin options to maintain a fragrance free and chemical free lifestyle against all odds. Generous friends and family members have supported us with their resources -- a place to live for a time, a season, awhile; money when we needed help to see our next option; skills we lacked; and company and love that mattered more than words can say, all of this has been so very much appreciated. Thank you! Mahalo nui!
As Pete and I prepare for our next venture of updating the golden wagon -- becoming more self-contained and hitching to T.F. our new-to-us truck for our next campground--, Posts-for-Pay and my recently developing new part-time paying job as an editor will ease the burden, grease our wheels, and build my confidence and self regard.
Camping involves a whole set of different skills and challenges; it's a culture we have just begun to know.The cost per campground varies, but the minimum nightly camping rate is around $25.00 per night to park; plug in (for electricity); have access to water for washing dishes, washing our clothes; sewer; and sometimes there are hot showers. Basic needs for a place in the world earned through the sharing of heART with readers who find my stories nourishing.
Your tips and patronage will make such a difference!
How do you pay?
For now, we are doing this the old fashion way. Your personal check, or cash works best.
Email me at mokihanacalizar@gmail.com and let me know you appreciate the post and would like to send me a tip or token of your appreciation. I'll reply (we get to have a virtual conversation!) with our gratitude and excitement, and send you our mailing address. We may be on the road, but we'll find ways to collect your tips and tokens.
This way is not very sophisticated, but it reduces financial fees charged for other patron-platform services we can't afford right now, nor can we manage the record keeping. With all the other challenges to juggle we're hoping this old fashion way will serve you, and us, in a gentle and harmless fashion.
We'll be putting our trust in people and the power of our heART felt posts, stories, and myths and you my readers. E Ola Mau Mauli.
When do you pay and what do you get?
You decide when to pay. Each time a post inspires you, once a month, or once a week whichever is most convenient or feels right to you.
We appreciate any and all amounts no matter how small. Your support is all important. I'm hoping to get some sweet cards made up from the many photographs I have taken of this and that, from here and there to turn into thank you packets to send off to you, our patrons of my heART. In the next several weeks (through June) we have many details and juggling acts to busy our dear old selves, so please, be patient as we build our newly being redesigned nomadic life.
If you have been a reader of my many blog posts, I hope you will continue to enjoy them now and pass this link along to your chums, your family, your people.
Mahalo nui, thank you for your support in whatever amount is comfortable for you!
Mokihana and Pete
Feel free to leave a comment here, or ask any questions of us as this is a new venture and there are bound to be things we learn that need an adjust. It's a process isn't it.
Click here for Other Ways to Kokua.
What have we learned with this experiment?
Updated on March 22, 2020
We have learned a lot about ourselves since I started writing and asking my readers to send a little something to say "We appreciate your writing." Mostly, I have found there are a small group of people, mostly those we know in the 'real' world, who keep coming to read and appreciate the work it takes to safety pin my thoughts and experience onto a public place. It's not Facebook, or Instagram. It's just a blog, and the viewing audience is small, intimate, and sometimes ... it's just me, and Pete.
Writing as I am, in the midst of the Time of Quarantine, 2020 ... I'm learning something about myself and the world. I'm learning that who I am, what I am able to 'say' through my sometimes cloudy, sometimes clear writing IS IT: this is who I am. All the blogging I've done in the past 12 years has been that, but, I've always thought there'd be more give-and-take more conversation, more caring.
Jude Hill, fiber artist and keeper of the blog SPIRIT CLOTH, inspired me with her blog post and has inspired me over time with the things I've come to know about her. She wrote this today, and I'm with her, with her, with her. Read and Listen to the audio file in the link. It's a myth for my tale bone that will make my day, and my tomorrow maybe.
These posts spring or ooze from rich and muddy beauty of life as we live it, we observe it all. My Kanaka relations call this kilo; paying attention.
For ten years I have written and left 'medicine stories' on the cloud, offered my spiritual practice of makua o'o, shared our life from a Golden Wagon, documented the building of a safe nest of a home on wheels and many other blogs on the internet for any who wandered there. No charge. I wrote the medicine, and served the community as part of my healthy practices, and wrote and wrote and wrote my way here. I found a way through the challenges of living with a condition without a cure. Life really needs no cure. Life is the remedy.
The writing was, and is, food for my tale bone the one that knows it's story that holds life together; and the tail bone that reminds me I am an animal. And the process, the movement of words from a body? It's what I was born for.
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| Once upon a time in the woods in 2013 where oodles of medicine stories poured out through my fingers ... |
Now, I turn around and face the other way and begin writing posts-for-pay. I have a body of work offered in non-profit service, and now I need to ask for patronage for the writing that has entertained, informed, provoked.
These posts-for-pay will include poems, musings, experiences with the real time challenges of a mobile life at seventy years plus. My posts ramble often, and link with ideas and times forward and back in a uniquely Mokihana-style. I hope to continue to enliven your world through the words, images and myths born from a creative everyday.
Sitting on the front porch, parked on a prairie, turned around, not sure of what's next ... but, hopeful.
Why now?
For every $25.00 earned in a day I can pay the 'rent'. Earning my way by creating these posts with my word weaving of myths are as much for my tale bone as yours. As a new friend, and writer said to me the other day, she writes because she must. Me, too.
We live in our Golden Wagon because she's the most beautiful, cozy, safe and lovable space we know on this Earth today. She, this wagon, is home. We have learned to live from her in the past ten years, and learned too that we are part of the modern nomads making our way from campgrounds here and there to be part of this whirl.
Our lifestyle is simple though not easy, and authentically sustainable.We live close to the bone on our fixed income of Social Security checks. Pete's capacity to negotiate and trade work for services is legendary, and over the past years my blogs have become a source of inspiration and education as we patch or safety pin options to maintain a fragrance free and chemical free lifestyle against all odds. Generous friends and family members have supported us with their resources -- a place to live for a time, a season, awhile; money when we needed help to see our next option; skills we lacked; and company and love that mattered more than words can say, all of this has been so very much appreciated. Thank you! Mahalo nui!
As Pete and I prepare for our next venture of updating the golden wagon -- becoming more self-contained and hitching to T.F. our new-to-us truck for our next campground--, Posts-for-Pay and my recently developing new part-time paying job as an editor will ease the burden, grease our wheels, and build my confidence and self regard.
Camping involves a whole set of different skills and challenges; it's a culture we have just begun to know.The cost per campground varies, but the minimum nightly camping rate is around $25.00 per night to park; plug in (for electricity); have access to water for washing dishes, washing our clothes; sewer; and sometimes there are hot showers. Basic needs for a place in the world earned through the sharing of heART with readers who find my stories nourishing.
Your tips and patronage will make such a difference!
How do you pay?
For now, we are doing this the old fashion way. Your personal check, or cash works best.
Email me at mokihanacalizar@gmail.com and let me know you appreciate the post and would like to send me a tip or token of your appreciation. I'll reply (we get to have a virtual conversation!) with our gratitude and excitement, and send you our mailing address. We may be on the road, but we'll find ways to collect your tips and tokens.
This way is not very sophisticated, but it reduces financial fees charged for other patron-platform services we can't afford right now, nor can we manage the record keeping. With all the other challenges to juggle we're hoping this old fashion way will serve you, and us, in a gentle and harmless fashion.
We'll be putting our trust in people and the power of our heART felt posts, stories, and myths and you my readers. E Ola Mau Mauli.
When do you pay and what do you get?
You decide when to pay. Each time a post inspires you, once a month, or once a week whichever is most convenient or feels right to you.
We appreciate any and all amounts no matter how small. Your support is all important. I'm hoping to get some sweet cards made up from the many photographs I have taken of this and that, from here and there to turn into thank you packets to send off to you, our patrons of my heART. In the next several weeks (through June) we have many details and juggling acts to busy our dear old selves, so please, be patient as we build our newly being redesigned nomadic life.
If you have been a reader of my many blog posts, I hope you will continue to enjoy them now and pass this link along to your chums, your family, your people.
Mahalo nui, thank you for your support in whatever amount is comfortable for you!
Mokihana and Pete
Feel free to leave a comment here, or ask any questions of us as this is a new venture and there are bound to be things we learn that need an adjust. It's a process isn't it.
Click here for Other Ways to Kokua.
What have we learned with this experiment?
Updated on March 22, 2020
We have learned a lot about ourselves since I started writing and asking my readers to send a little something to say "We appreciate your writing." Mostly, I have found there are a small group of people, mostly those we know in the 'real' world, who keep coming to read and appreciate the work it takes to safety pin my thoughts and experience onto a public place. It's not Facebook, or Instagram. It's just a blog, and the viewing audience is small, intimate, and sometimes ... it's just me, and Pete.
Writing as I am, in the midst of the Time of Quarantine, 2020 ... I'm learning something about myself and the world. I'm learning that who I am, what I am able to 'say' through my sometimes cloudy, sometimes clear writing IS IT: this is who I am. All the blogging I've done in the past 12 years has been that, but, I've always thought there'd be more give-and-take more conversation, more caring.
Jude Hill, fiber artist and keeper of the blog SPIRIT CLOTH, inspired me with her blog post and has inspired me over time with the things I've come to know about her. She wrote this today, and I'm with her, with her, with her. Read and Listen to the audio file in the link. It's a myth for my tale bone that will make my day, and my tomorrow maybe.
"I'm gonna share as if there's no tomorrow (even if there is!)." And, I'm doing that sharing over here .... at
FASTEN YOUR SAFETY PINS.
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