Boy Rahel, you stir up so many memories of my childhood summers on Faial. My earliest memory is of our ship, arriving from the mainland, almost sinking while circling the island for days because of really bad weather. A postcard was made of that journey. I’m sure it’s up somewhere on the island. It was taken with Pico in the background peeking above the clouds and the ocean waves spilling onto the town of Horta. We almost didn’t make it, but somehow did. Seeing Pico’s tip offered us hope that the storm would calm down even as everything inside the ship swung from one side of the room to other. I was 2 years old and remember most of the details, amazing.
Wow. What a story and how astonishing that you can remember most of the details despite being so young when you lived through this experience! I'm sure this unique adventure has deeply impacted your life and shaped you as a person. Thank you so much for sharing these incredible memories of yours. I appreciate it!
@@RahelStadler It did make a mark on my life; I’m a fighter and optimist. I should not be alive several times, but here I am. Life is full of experiences and challenges for a reason. I’ve learned to embrace them all as part of this journey we call life. Like the much abused saying goes; keep calm and carry on. Tomorrow is a new day full of new opportunities. I say, grab them by the tail and make the most of the ride.
As I go thru life It is nice to see how quiet is. I remember how miserable it was in the city. I spent well over 20+ years on a thankless job. Nancy and I have spent days sitting on the porch and looking at nature. It is a fun day just talking about how fortunate life can be. Things get tough but we handle our disagreements with calm cool discussing matters. We always remain calm. Even when she says the nasty phrase " I told you so!" I like to play the violin. It is a great way to start the day. I played A mighty Fortress Is Our God. It is my wife's favorite Hymn. Until the weather is cold we will Have our neighbors come over and spend time painting and being together. That was life is all about.
♥️🙏🏻🌲💧🌞🌅🌄🙌🎶🤗👏✨🎯🕊️🍀🪄😍😘!….”yes, & how many times must a man look up before he can see the sky?…the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind…the answer is blowin’ in the wind!”….thank You Rahel for SEEING & sharing! This is pure medicine with great power to heal! Take excellent care!…May Mother Nature wrap you in her healing blanket, always!!! Blessings, love & infinite sunrises! …🌄🌅🎯🤗😘♥️👏🎶🪄🌲💧✨🍀👏🙏🏻🕊️🌞😇
What a beautiful message! Thank you for your genuine appreciation and your kind wishes. I am very grateful that you are here sharing your light. Sending you lots of love😊💛
It is a beautiful day today! The skies are bright blue and peaceful. Now the snow is gone I can paint again. The clouds there are beautiful. We have a heat wave here. It's actually 46 degrees. Looking at Pico Mountain is very peaceful. The weather has calmed down and soon it will be Spring. My wife's birthday is coming soon. She is special to me. 36 years together is a long time but it seemed to go fast. Rahel have a great day.
I love reading your descriptions of the nature which surrounds you each time I post a video, it's lovely to know what catches your attention and what you are up to. I wish you the most wonderful time painting and the most happiest birthday to your amazing wife!
Thank you for sharing, reading your words moves me deeply. It means the world to me that each of my videos stabilizes your level of emotions. That's such a beautiful thing🥹
Greeting from Los Angeles, California. Enjoy the beauty that surrounds you. I believe we are put on this earth to help each other out, and you are helping me by posting these videos. I am grateful, thank you.
That's so sweet of you! Thank you for sharing this. It makes my heart so full to know that I am able to help you in some small way. I'm going to keep you in my thoughts while creating my next video. Sending my warmest wishes to you to Los Angeles!
When I think back I am so grateful for nature. The nice red sky indicates Red at night sailor's delight. If it is Red in the morning sailor's take warning. Taking walks in the forest is ideal. There is a lesson to learn around each corner. Helga is a year old and strong! She defended our property against a Mountain lion and she chased it away! Now I am adding a classroom studio for teaching. My daughter will teach when she has time off. When we get our dreams to come true we should be thankful for what we have now. Have fun and make your day special for you are special!
I also feel very grateful for nature. Thank you for sharing your story about Helga and the Mountain lion, your forest walks and your daughter's teaching endeavors. Best wishes to you, Richard.
I just finished reading a book by Alan Watts called THE BOOK written in 1966 Maybe it is at your Library He writes about LIFE in the purest sense Best of luck in your journey
Your words make me really, really happy! Thank you for sharing this with me, Nathan. I'm crossing my fingers for you that your dream of living in the Azores comes true. I hope you are doing well. Sending you my warmest wishes and some peacefulness from the island☀️
❤ enjoy those wonderful momentsaround nature, the sunrise and sunset are splendid ways if you can enjoy them every day, they are very special for our wellbeing , mind and soul, the mother earth and universe is our console partner that needs to be treasured and enjoyed , regards, Bart✌
Beautifully said, Bart, and I agree. Thank you for your encouragement I'm definitely going to make an effort to experience in particularly sunrises more frequently from now on.
Hello Rahen, I could totally relate to this video. When I was younger, I would wake up early on Saturday mornings before sunrise and drive for 30-40 minutes to the water (Miami Beach) to watch the sunrise. Sometimes, it was disappointing as far as the light show was concerned, but it was always awesome to be on the beach that early in the morning. Sometimes I watched spectacular sunrises from the highway as I drove to work. Recently, I started vacationing on an island on the west coast of Florida. I would wake up early in the mornings and walk around the bend of the island until I reached the east side and watch the sunrise there. Sunsets were much easier, just across the street from my rented apartment. All in all, I find sunsets much more spectacular and more frequently spectacular in their color display than sunrises. I don’t know why, but that’s been my experience of watching both whilst living in Florida. Many times, in the night I have my cat in my arms. I can watch different videos but I am not able to comment on them. It was lovely seeing you facing the camera. You have such an amazing face. Depending on the angle of the camera and your hairdo/hat your face looks somewhat different, always changing, always surprising.
Hello Eve, I greatly admire your consistency in making the time throughout your life to witness sunrises or sunsets. I'm sure it had and still has a beautiful impact on how you go about your day or wind down for your night afterwards. And what a lovely ritual on your holidays🤗 Thank you for appreciating me facing the camera. I needed quite a bit of courage for that but I really, really enjoyed it, surprisingly😊
@@RahelStadler Thank you, Rahel. Actually, now that I am older, I don't drive that far just for a sunrise. But, when I go to my vacation island, I still try to go for my "sunrise walks" along the beach. Good for the body and good for the soul. You are doing great. I see you are becoming less and less camera shy. Hooray!
Good morning and congratulations on the sincerity, authenticity and feeling with which you express your vision of life! I have no doubt that humanity will move (too slowly, admittedly) in this direction, that of contemplation and simplicity...
I really liked how the rocks behind you were in such fine detail. Thanks for the stories about your efforts to get out there and enjoy a sunrise. At least the sunrises are a little later in February. The ocean sounded wonderful on my headphones.
I really like that you have noticed that the rocks behind me were more in focus than I was but instead of feeling bothered by it you found and pointed out the beauty in my accidental technical mishap. Thank you for changing my perspective😊
Aww what a timing! Thank you and Happy belated birthday, Nick! I hope you had the most wonderful day with plenty of delicious food and lots of laughter. I hope you felt a little extra loved and appreciated and I wish you good health, peaceful moments and many beautiful memories in both of your homes!
Thanks, Rahel! I had a lovely day with the family. I'm working on an Erasmus project at the moment to take a group of 20 underprivileged apprentice students to visit Pico next year. They've never seen the ocean or flown before! I really hope it will be accepted, they were all so excited and enthusiastic when I mentioned it. Looking forward to your next video. @@RahelStadler
I struggle with the constant grey weather in the winter months. It seems as though the Azores isn't much better in that regard. Spring is almost here and then things will be much better. I really want to visit the Azores one day, it looks so beautiful. I will make sure not to come in the winter time though. Keep going with the videos and thanks.
You're welcome Nicholas. I can definitely relate to your struggle with constant grey weather and unfortunately there is quite a lot of it in the Azores, not only in the winter but at anytime of the year. Surely it's more likely to be sunny during the summer months but it's not uncommon to have those gloomy, humid days in the summer as well. Generally the weather tends to be very unpredictable.
Hello Kim. I don't exactly live off of TH-cam but off of Patreon. Like you observed very well due to the size of my channel I basically earn nothing here on TH-cam. I can only live off of my videos because there are a few generous people who support my work via Patreon or PayPal and because I adjusted my life to a very tiny and fluctuant income. Still it is definitely a miracle to me as well 😊 I'm sending you my warmest wishes from Pico!
@@RahelStadler oh ok yes that sounds more realistic. Plus there must be a lot of practical ways to stay alive, maybe just work 1 day a week in a restaurant to get extra income if needed?
Thanks for this nice chat. I did enjoy it. I wach almost all youre video's and would like it if once in a while you take this approce. Greetings from a duch inland sailor.
Thank you for letting me know how you feel about this little chat, I very much appreciate it, especially so since you have watched so many of my other videos. Thank you for following along and how amazing is it that you are an inland sailor, I love that 🙂
That "sunrise: you observed there looks very, very similar to the ones we have experienced in our little city. The clouds tend to block the sun as it rises and then it might clear up a bit later during the day. Plenty of gray days between every sunny day though which is normal for us during the winter season. Thank you for this update 👍
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Love the intro music.
Thanks for another lovely video!
You are very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the intro music, I love it as well 😊
Boy Rahel, you stir up so many memories of my childhood summers on Faial.
My earliest memory is of our ship, arriving from the mainland, almost sinking while circling the island for days because of really bad weather. A postcard was made of that journey. I’m sure it’s up somewhere on the island.
It was taken with Pico in the background peeking above the clouds and the ocean waves spilling onto the town of Horta. We almost didn’t make it, but somehow did. Seeing Pico’s tip offered us hope that the storm would calm down even as everything inside the ship swung from one side of the room to other. I was 2 years old and remember most of the details, amazing.
Wow. What a story and how astonishing that you can remember most of the details despite being so young when you lived through this experience! I'm sure this unique adventure has deeply impacted your life and shaped you as a person. Thank you so much for sharing these incredible memories of yours. I appreciate it!
@@RahelStadler It did make a mark on my life; I’m a fighter and optimist. I should not be alive several times, but here I am. Life is full of experiences and challenges for a reason. I’ve learned to embrace them all as part of this journey we call life.
Like the much abused saying goes; keep calm and carry on. Tomorrow is a new day full of new opportunities. I say, grab them by the tail and make the most of the ride.
@@m.a.p.g.your attitude is very admiring, refreshing and contagious. It inspires me to try to surrender more to life as it is. Thank you 🙏
As I go thru life It is nice to see how quiet is. I remember how miserable it was in the city. I spent well over 20+ years on a thankless job. Nancy and I have spent days sitting on the porch and looking at nature. It is a fun day just talking about how fortunate life can be. Things get tough but we handle our disagreements with calm cool discussing matters. We always remain calm. Even when she says the nasty phrase " I told you so!" I like to play the violin. It is a great way to start the day. I played A mighty Fortress Is Our God. It is my wife's favorite
Hymn. Until the weather is cold we will Have our neighbors come over and spend time painting and being together. That was life is all about.
That's beautiful. I'm so happy for you that you love and enjoy your life!
♥️🙏🏻🌲💧🌞🌅🌄🙌🎶🤗👏✨🎯🕊️🍀🪄😍😘!….”yes, & how many times must a man look up before he can see the sky?…the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind…the answer is blowin’ in the wind!”….thank You Rahel for SEEING & sharing! This is pure medicine with great power to heal! Take excellent care!…May Mother Nature wrap you in her healing blanket, always!!! Blessings, love & infinite sunrises! …🌄🌅🎯🤗😘♥️👏🎶🪄🌲💧✨🍀👏🙏🏻🕊️🌞😇
What a beautiful message! Thank you for your genuine appreciation and your kind wishes. I am very grateful that you are here sharing your light. Sending you lots of love😊💛
It is a beautiful day today! The skies are bright blue and peaceful. Now the snow is gone I can paint again. The clouds there are beautiful. We have a heat wave here. It's actually 46 degrees. Looking at Pico Mountain is very peaceful. The weather has calmed down and soon it will be Spring. My wife's birthday is coming soon. She is special to me. 36 years together is a long time but it seemed to go fast. Rahel have a great day.
I love reading your descriptions of the nature which surrounds you each time I post a video, it's lovely to know what catches your attention and what you are up to. I wish you the most wonderful time painting and the most happiest birthday to your amazing wife!
You're doing a superb job from the start. The level of my emotions stabilizes with each video of yours. Thank you very much see you soon 😊
Thank you for sharing, reading your words moves me deeply. It means the world to me that each of my videos stabilizes your level of emotions. That's such a beautiful thing🥹
I love looking at that Peak!!! Love Pico💞 Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed looking at that peak, I find it so mesmerizing as well 🙂
Greeting from Los Angeles, California. Enjoy the beauty that surrounds you. I believe we are put on this earth to help each other out, and you are helping me by posting these videos. I am grateful, thank you.
That's so sweet of you! Thank you for sharing this. It makes my heart so full to know that I am able to help you in some small way. I'm going to keep you in my thoughts while creating my next video. Sending my warmest wishes to you to Los Angeles!
When I think back I am so grateful for nature. The nice red sky indicates Red at night sailor's delight. If it is Red in the morning sailor's take warning. Taking walks in the forest is ideal. There is a lesson to learn around each corner. Helga is a year old and strong! She defended our property against a Mountain lion and she chased it away! Now I am adding a classroom studio for teaching. My daughter will teach when she has time off. When we get our dreams to come true we should be thankful for what we have now. Have fun and make your day special for you are special!
I also feel very grateful for nature. Thank you for sharing your story about Helga and the Mountain lion, your forest walks and your daughter's teaching endeavors. Best wishes to you, Richard.
I just finished reading a book by Alan Watts called THE BOOK written in 1966
Maybe it is at your Library
He writes about LIFE in the purest sense
Best of luck in your journey
I do not know the book which you are referring to but I'm going to check it out. Thank you for the recommendation. Best wishes to you!
i also read Watts. There are recordings of his books and talks here on TH-cam for free !
I love the style of your videos! So peaceful and therapeutic! I love the Azores and hope to live there some day. Thank you for the great content!
Your words make me really, really happy! Thank you for sharing this with me, Nathan. I'm crossing my fingers for you that your dream of living in the Azores comes true. I hope you are doing well. Sending you my warmest wishes and some peacefulness from the island☀️
❤ enjoy those wonderful momentsaround nature, the sunrise and sunset are splendid ways if you can enjoy them every day, they are very special for our wellbeing , mind and soul, the mother earth and universe is our console partner that needs to be treasured and enjoyed , regards, Bart✌
Beautifully said, Bart, and I agree. Thank you for your encouragement I'm definitely going to make an effort to experience in particularly sunrises more frequently from now on.
5:15 thank you for these kind words.
Aw. My pleasure. I mean it, I genuinely hope you are doing well. Sending my best wishes to you!
Rahel. Ich bring dir Anfang März schönes Wetter mit auf die Azoren! Pass auf dich auf!
Da freue ich mich. Wir versinken derzeit mal wieder im Dauergrau und Dauernass.
Hello Rahen,
I could totally relate to this video. When I was younger, I would wake up early on Saturday mornings before sunrise and drive for 30-40 minutes to the water (Miami Beach) to watch the sunrise. Sometimes, it was disappointing as far as the light show was concerned, but it was always awesome to be on the beach that early in the morning. Sometimes I watched spectacular sunrises from the highway as I drove to work. Recently, I started vacationing on an island on the west coast of Florida. I would wake up early in the mornings and walk around the bend of the island until I reached the east side and watch the sunrise there. Sunsets were much easier, just across the street from my rented apartment. All in all, I find sunsets much more spectacular and more frequently spectacular in their color display than sunrises. I don’t know why, but that’s been my experience of watching both whilst living in Florida.
Many times, in the night I have my cat in my arms. I can watch different videos but I am not able to comment on them.
It was lovely seeing you facing the camera. You have such an amazing face. Depending on the angle of the camera and your hairdo/hat your face looks somewhat different, always changing, always surprising.
Hello Eve,
I greatly admire your consistency in making the time throughout your life to witness sunrises or sunsets. I'm sure it had and still has a beautiful impact on how you go about your day or wind down for your night afterwards. And what a lovely ritual on your holidays🤗
Thank you for appreciating me facing the camera. I needed quite a bit of courage for that but I really, really enjoyed it, surprisingly😊
@@RahelStadler Thank you, Rahel. Actually, now that I am older, I don't drive that far just for a sunrise. But, when I go to my vacation island, I still try to go for my "sunrise walks" along the beach. Good for the body and good for the soul.
You are doing great. I see you are becoming less and less camera shy. Hooray!
I enjoyed this video - so personal and i also like the simple yet beautiful back ground of the ocean . I really felt that I was right there with you ❤
Reading this makes me so happy! I'm so glad you felt like being right there with me, that's all I hoped for ♥️
Good morning and congratulations on the sincerity, authenticity and feeling with which you express your vision of life!
I have no doubt that humanity will move (too slowly, admittedly) in this direction, that of contemplation and simplicity...
Good evening and thank you so much for seeing and appreciating my efforts to simply share my authentic self. It means a lot!
I really liked how the rocks behind you were in such fine detail. Thanks for the stories about your efforts to get out there and enjoy a sunrise. At least the sunrises are a little later in February. The ocean sounded wonderful on my headphones.
I really like that you have noticed that the rocks behind me were more in focus than I was but instead of feeling bothered by it you found and pointed out the beauty in my accidental technical mishap. Thank you for changing my perspective😊
@@RahelStadler I actually never noticed you were out of focus, Rahel, but as usual your video was good spirited and friendly. Thank you.
Obrigada por esse lindo vídeo com essas lindas paisagens 🌹🎄🎄🌟
De nada, Antonio 🙏
@@RahelStadler Eu é que agradeço obrigada 🌹❤️👋👍
Just perfect on my birthday!
I really enjoyed your chat and you look amazing in that hat, thanks Rahel
Aww what a timing! Thank you and Happy belated birthday, Nick! I hope you had the most wonderful day with plenty of delicious food and lots of laughter. I hope you felt a little extra loved and appreciated and I wish you good health, peaceful moments and many beautiful memories in both of your homes!
Thanks, Rahel! I had a lovely day with the family. I'm working on an Erasmus project at the moment to take a group of 20 underprivileged apprentice students to visit Pico next year.
They've never seen the ocean or flown before! I really hope it will be accepted, they were all so excited and enthusiastic when I mentioned it.
Looking forward to your next video.
@@RahelStadler
That's amazing, Nick, what a beautiful project. This trip might change some of your students lives. Good on you for trying to make it happen.
I struggle with the constant grey weather in the winter months. It seems as though the Azores isn't much better in that regard. Spring is almost here and then things will be much better. I really want to visit the Azores one day, it looks so beautiful. I will make sure not to come in the winter time though. Keep going with the videos and thanks.
You're welcome Nicholas. I can definitely relate to your struggle with constant grey weather and unfortunately there is quite a lot of it in the Azores, not only in the winter but at anytime of the year. Surely it's more likely to be sunny during the summer months but it's not uncommon to have those gloomy, humid days in the summer as well. Generally the weather tends to be very unpredictable.
What a beautiful life it is a miracle you can live off of TH-cam with not so many subscribers
Hello Kim. I don't exactly live off of TH-cam but off of Patreon. Like you observed very well due to the size of my channel I basically earn nothing here on TH-cam. I can only live off of my videos because there are a few generous people who support my work via Patreon or PayPal and because I adjusted my life to a very tiny and fluctuant income. Still it is definitely a miracle to me as well 😊 I'm sending you my warmest wishes from Pico!
@@RahelStadler oh ok yes that sounds more realistic. Plus there must be a lot of practical ways to stay alive, maybe just work 1 day a week in a restaurant to get extra income if needed?
...smile.😊
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Have you stayed in Santa Maria Rahel? ❤
Unfortunately I have never been to Santa Maria.
Perfect
Thank you, Dorn 🙏
Thanks for this nice chat. I did enjoy it. I wach almost all youre video's and would like it if once in a while you take this approce.
Greetings from a duch inland sailor.
Thank you for letting me know how you feel about this little chat, I very much appreciate it, especially so since you have watched so many of my other videos. Thank you for following along and how amazing is it that you are an inland sailor, I love that 🙂
Good luck✌
Thank you.
Wonderful
Thank you, Igor.
That "sunrise: you observed there looks very, very similar to the ones we have experienced in our little city. The clouds tend to block the sun as it rises and then it might clear up a bit later during the day. Plenty of gray days between every sunny day though which is normal for us during the winter season. Thank you for this update 👍
How interesting that you are experiencing similar types of sunrises where you live in Norway. Thank you for sharing, Endre!
@@RahelStadler Nature has a sense of humor... This morning we had a glorious sunrise, with no clouds in the sky! 🙂
@endrefidje5698 that's amazing! I'm very happy for you 🙂