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65Granted, the house which was a two minute walk from the most perfect cerulean blue ocean I’ve ever seen, had no electric- ity. The running water came through the taps only once every afternoon. She had set up a system of huge buckets that you put under the faucets while the taps were running. You then used this “caught” water as your cooking and bathing source for the day. It was super economical and earth friendly, though admittedly I had to work through my first worldliness rather abruptly!Tanzania offered me the chance to go slower. I’m guessing that it’s because I had the time to relax into the fabric of life and just be a person again, which allowed things to come, versus constantly planning or rushing to and fro in a huge metropolis like New York. There was time now for the universe to help, without me always ignoring it (super corny, I know!).