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Salvete omnes!
Once again I am in transition. I will be at Lost Valley for one more week-and if the past couple weeks have been any indicator, it will be intense. It’s hard to say goodbye to a place and a community I’ve loved and where I’ve been happy, and to my wonderful friends here. When it was other people leaving, it was easy to talk about how at Lost Valley I’ve gotten to learn about loving and letting go. I’m certainly learning about all of that now (and it has started early, because during the past few days several people have left on trips from which they will return after I’m gone)-and it is much harder from this end.
In some moments I feel excited and happy, because there is a lot I’m looking forward to. In some moments I just feel grateful, because I’ve had a truly amazing experience here for the past year. In other moments I just feel sad. And sometimes I feel deeply unsettled, because my plans are far from concrete: I’m about to go across the continent, but I don’t really know what’s on the other side for me.
Here are my longish-term plans as they stand now. In the next few days I should find out whether or not I have a permaculture-focused apprenticeship I’ve applied for in Sullivan, Maine, near Ellsworth. If I get that, it will begin at the end of April. Then, in September, I may be going back to school! I’m in the process of applying to the Conway School of Landscape Design in Conway, Massachusetts (which is strangely about 15 miles away from Smith) for their one-year masters program in sustainable landscape design and planning. (How cool is it that one of their core faculty members, Jono Neiger, was Lost Valley’s main permaculturist for five years?!)
In the short term: next Monday, March 2, I will leave Lost Valley via southbound Coast Starlight. I’ll spend about five days in Monterey, then fly to Boston. I will visit the Conway School. And then, until the end of April, I will visit many friends and relatives in the northeast, plus take my first trip back to the Midwest since Carleton graduation a year and a half ago! I’m looking forward to seeing many of you on this trip.
I always enjoy hearing from any of you. I will try to get back into writing more here. There is much to share about the writing-poor but life-rich past months!
Hugs all around!
Once again I am in transition. I will be at Lost Valley for one more week-and if the past couple weeks have been any indicator, it will be intense. It’s hard to say goodbye to a place and a community I’ve loved and where I’ve been happy, and to my wonderful friends here. When it was other people leaving, it was easy to talk about how at Lost Valley I’ve gotten to learn about loving and letting go. I’m certainly learning about all of that now (and it has started early, because during the past few days several people have left on trips from which they will return after I’m gone)-and it is much harder from this end.
In some moments I feel excited and happy, because there is a lot I’m looking forward to. In some moments I just feel grateful, because I’ve had a truly amazing experience here for the past year. In other moments I just feel sad. And sometimes I feel deeply unsettled, because my plans are far from concrete: I’m about to go across the continent, but I don’t really know what’s on the other side for me.
Here are my longish-term plans as they stand now. In the next few days I should find out whether or not I have a permaculture-focused apprenticeship I’ve applied for in Sullivan, Maine, near Ellsworth. If I get that, it will begin at the end of April. Then, in September, I may be going back to school! I’m in the process of applying to the Conway School of Landscape Design in Conway, Massachusetts (which is strangely about 15 miles away from Smith) for their one-year masters program in sustainable landscape design and planning. (How cool is it that one of their core faculty members, Jono Neiger, was Lost Valley’s main permaculturist for five years?!)
In the short term: next Monday, March 2, I will leave Lost Valley via southbound Coast Starlight. I’ll spend about five days in Monterey, then fly to Boston. I will visit the Conway School. And then, until the end of April, I will visit many friends and relatives in the northeast, plus take my first trip back to the Midwest since Carleton graduation a year and a half ago! I’m looking forward to seeing many of you on this trip.
I always enjoy hearing from any of you. I will try to get back into writing more here. There is much to share about the writing-poor but life-rich past months!
Hugs all around!