I went to Nowhere this past year. Maybe I'll go to burning man this year but I doubt it. I think I want more than 1 year between each burn. It's so decadent. Funny that, since it's living minimally in the desert. But it takes so much time especially with preparation. And recovery ( Read more... )

I went to a Lecture by Josh Viertel, president of Slow Food USA. That was great. It was inspiring and revamped my already serious interest in the topic. It was just what I needed. Especially since it gave me a lot of ideas of what I want to focus on this semester. Great ( Read more... )

I'm sure the dreary weather isn't making it look more upbeat. I look at a mother sitting on the steps of a run down house, in a blue nurse outfit, or maybe some retail uniform, and I think, "she's been abandoned." It feels loneley and disconnected. Why should someone work their ass off all alone for not enough pay, 1)so their children can simply ( Read more... )

I woke up from a long nap a little bit ago. Em and I were peacefully snuggled up on my bed.

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there is a tree I can see from my window that looks like a tuber, kind of the same width for the whole legth of the tree, ending in a blunt roundish end, with little rootish looking branches sticking out ( Read more... )

Once again, I love biking home. After a bit, I realized that it actually isn't that cold out. the stars were out, and I could see orion's belt, and his sword. (its amazing how many people have tried to tell me that that belt is the big dipper. Its really not. Is the big dipper even in the sky right now ( Read more... )

When I have the power to do so, when I am making a home in a place where I intend to put down my roots, deep, I will have a fig tree, and it will grow huge, and I will craft a bench and a little table, and a twoseater bench swing, and a hammock, and I will have a walnut tree, and next to it, I will grow spinach, and between the spinach and the ( Read more... )

I have an ID now. A REAL one. good stuff. I am going to Santa Cruz tomorrow, driving to Burning man sunday, camping with foxy kokonaut. I am tired, was up late talking to a guy from fort awesome around the corner till, like 2 am ( Read more... )

I am distressed. Here is why: I was biking down the street, market street, when I saw the kid being screamed at, on his own porch. He stumbled out of the door, facing the door and this woman was leaning out screaming at him, and then she went inside and he was just standing there. I was watching him as I biked past and then I pulled over and ( Read more... )

Oh Man, I just biked HELLA far! Emily and I biked to sleep train pavilion in concord (my 'brilliant' idea) to Funk B and da U-turns ( Read more... )