Tomorrow?! I'm leaving tomorrow for Minnesota, for two intense weeks of developing myself as an educator. The setting: Audubon Center of the North Woods, in Sandstone, MN. Dave Jacke leading the course, with Kay Cafasso, Ethan Roland and others ( Read more... )

Permaculture course coming to a close in the next two weeks. Feeling both closer and more distant to this community as time passes. Slept fourteen hours Monday night. I'm having new experiences. Growing pains. I'm reading Freire and bell hooks, linking them with what Tom's been giving us glimpses of and remembering this time last year when I ( Read more... )

This past weekend something in my mind reached a critical mass. Monday morning I was laying on my back under a live oak, gazing vaguely into an incomperable blue sky when I finally realized that my heart wasn't in the trip anymore, not the way I'd originally planned it, anyway. So I let go of the Pacific Crest Trail, for this year anyway, and ( Read more... )