Here at the finca we live according to the four pillars of spirituality, service, simplicity, and community. These pillars take many forms in our daily lives, for example while we have running water, it is not heated. This translates to cold showers. I will not lie; these showers take some time to get used to, especially during rainy season in the winter time. In the true transformative spirit of the finca, these showers have recently taken on a whole new nature.
As some of you have noticed, summertime is just around the corner. This means that Honduras is currently hot. Not hot in the sense that you sweat a bit walking to the car, but HOT everywhere accept the one foot radius around your fan (if the electricity is working). There is no escaping it, and it is only going to get hotter as the summer goes on. When I was little we would go to 7-11 and get slurpees on really hot days to cool off in the summer time, sadly that option does not exist here in rural Honduras. In rural Honduras the summer slurpee takes on a different form…the cold shower. This previously somewhat undesirable element of my life is now the highlight of my nighttime routine. This cold shower makes one feel refreshed and clean in a way nothing else can. So today I give a toast the cold shower, the new slurpee of my life.
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