Arune’s Substack

I wanted another baby... then I formed ForestKind

Arune Savage — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:25:27 GMT

It was exactly one year and one month ago that me and my new bestie (yuck I loathe this word but whatever) started a new intentional community. It’s been a year of hard work, struggles, crazy drunken…

What’s in a Name? Apparently, Social Anxiety

Arune Savage — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:36:31 GMT

When my parents named me, it was in Lithuania, and my name was not unusual or weird. It wasn’t the most common name or anything, but many people had my name, and most definitely everyone in that coun…

What happened to that girl?

Arune Savage — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:56:51 GMT

As I’m backpacking East Africa with my daughter, to bring her to my beloved continent for the first time but also to do a lot of healing, thinking, and processing, I started thinking about one specif…

The broken process of healing

Arune Savage — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:52:46 GMT

It’s been a year and then some since a major event in my life ripped the carpet out from under us, leaving me sitting bare-butt naked on the hard asphalt, wondering what fuck-ups I made to get myself…

My wake up call... was cancer

Arune Savage — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:17:27 GMT

It's not easy to overcome the conditioning and societal pressure to live life the way THEY want you to... but for all of us there comes a time when we realize what's important.

Where is this MAGICAL water?

Arune Savage — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:51:02 GMT

Your calcium, magnesium, potassium and other minerals shouldn’t be coming from a chemical supplement on your shelf… but most of it from your WATER! But hell when you drink tap water or bottled water …

CHANGE YOUR LIFE NOW!!!

Arune Savage — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:31:45 GMT

stop waiting and making excuses.

Leaving the matrix

Arune Savage — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:47:58 GMT

People have been taking a lot about leaving the matrix. I feel I’ve been slowly tip toeing out of it for about five years. It’s easy and hard. There are just things you’re used to that you can’t even…

Pain equals growth

Arune Savage — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:01:36 GMT

I’ve had an interesting year over the last however many months. Interesting being a severe under statement. Just when I thought my life was finally settled, just when I had finished building my tiny house, got into a beautiful rhythm with my daughter, just when it felt as if I had finally “arrived”, life decided to laugh out loud at me. Which isn’t unusual but the question is why do I ever keep expecting the dust to settle?

Our biggest addiction

Arune Savage — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:09:55 GMT

We all have our vices and things we got so accustomed to doing day in and out that we can’t even imagine a world without them… these vices might differ from one person to the next but really there is…

Why I'm not a feminist

Arune Savage — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:16:59 GMT

I live in a place where feminism is practiced like religion, and all those who aren’t onboard are burned at the stake. Not physically but emotionally or mentally, which really might be worse. I have …

Vaginafall

Arune Savage — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:19:46 GMT

This is a recap of this time a few months ago when I found out I had a “situation” down there.

I have been having a myriad of health stuff surface up lately because finally, my body is punishing me fo…

Lost and found

Arune Savage — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:11:38 GMT

So I’ve been missing. When I go missing it’s often because I’m either having way too much fun (like when I’m traveling or have just met someone who I’ve not found fault with yet) or alternatively I’m actually having a horrible time. And I haven’t made a post in ages because of the latter.

Stealing showers

Arune Savage — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:05:50 GMT

When people find out that live without running water at my tiny house, they often ask me where I shower. Or do I not shower at all? I will finally tell you all.

My spirit plant is Wild Parsnip

Arune Savage — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:03:10 GMT

So people tend to talk about spirit animals and whatever but just this week I harvested and prepared some wild parsnips and realized.. that, shit! My spirit plant is definitely wild parsnip!

Wild pars…

Guilty of fairy tales

Arune Savage — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 21:02:28 GMT

So I live without fancy stuff like WIFI, but that does not mean I don’t watch movies. And whenever someone asks me what sort of films I like to watch, they are always surprised. I don’t know if it’s because I’m so vulgar or abrasive, but people find it odd I would be watching romance films. Romcoms especially is what I watch nowadays. I went through phases where I only watched documentaries, or only art films and dramas. But now I’m living in the romance film cloud and let me tell you, I fucking love them. Love them with a capital L. Watching the same film over and over and getting chills every time. Just nothing like it.

The tinder sperm hunt

Arune Savage — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:59:10 GMT

I am a single mother, post a bad marriage. I always dreamed I would have a large family, but despite these dreams strong holding me from a young age, I somehow ended up in a decade-long marriage, in …

Weird stuff happening next door

Arune Savage — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:57:11 GMT

This is a short post for all of you who hate reading or have the attention span of a toddler.

Accidental golden shower

Arune Savage — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:25:07 GMT

Well, one more place to add to the list of places that I can never set foot in again – The Aquatic Center of Kirksville.

Ma'am have you checked your eggs?

Arune Savage — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:04:55 GMT

And here we have another new awkward moment in my life.

I had just seen my fertility doctor for the last time. He spent multiple appointments testing my ovaries, making sure the quality was okay and c…