Raw Family: A True Story of Awakening by Victoria Boutenko

Author:Victoria Boutenko
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Raw foods, Raw food diet
ISBN: 9780970481955
Publisher: Raw Family Pub.
Published: 2004-03-15T10:00:00+00:00

Living by Faith

t seems that the universe is always providing us with a "no choice" situation whenever we need to go further, but are kind of stuck in a doorsill. I mean that we didn't want to go back and live like we used to live but we were afraid to make a real change, to start living by following our intuition, to live by faith. So we were pushed.

We had four hundred dollars in our pocket. Due to the type of visa that we had, we were not eligible to receive food stamps or other help from the American government.

We didn't know where we were going, for how long, what we were going to do, where we would end up, and we couldn't explain why we were going either. We surrendered.

For two and half years we have been traveling around the United States. We put 200,000 miles on our van! Amazingly, our car never had any major problems during all this time. We went spontaneously from place to place. While preparing raw meals for one church we would get invited to do a presentation at a next-door senior center. At some places there were only five people, at others twenty. We collected only donations.

Sometimes we made less money than we spent. Sometimes we got no money at all. Sometimes we earned good money. Once a community in the Bahamas paid for our airplane tickets to Bahamas, so we could teach them how to make tasty raw dishes. We learned that if we sincerely wanted to help, people gladly paid us.

When we did not have money we lived on sprouts and wild edibles. We always slept outside in free campgrounds, in different communities, or in our friends' backyards. We now had favorite places to stay in forty-nine states. We were sorry now that we had been "chained" to our house in Denver for so long. We had such a good life now! Every morning we ran, biked and swam. Then we spent time reading, writing letters, discussing our plans. After having a delicious lunch we worked for other people. Every night I read classical books aloud to my family. In the winter we moved towards Texas, Arizona, Florida. Once we spent a week on a deserted island in southern Florida.

In the summer we migrated towards spectacular Minnesota, Vermont, Maine. We lived like a royal family. We were relaxed and happy, no phone and TV, no appointments, deadlines or stress. We met many other people who lived this way. We had many opportunities to settle. We were offered good jobs at some health institutions. But we hadn't had enough of freedom yet.

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