i hope everyone's christmas or hanukkah or winter solstice was blessed with lots of family, friends and love. mine was. heres one part of the story, from my point of view.

...if you haven't noticed yet... i discovered how to use youtube :)

So I took a suggestion from Cynthia and did something today. Instead of just reading about rocket stoves and wishing I had one, or knew how to make one... I just went outside and started building. I was working from a picture and I don't think my little mock-up is that good (dry stacked bricks) but this thing sure does burn! It took me about an ( Read more... )

Hanging out...

In an albizia tree.

Time to climb.

How To Climb A Coconut Tree by Me... {click me}


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this is the direction I'd like to go in. read if you like the idea of low-energy, low-impact living in the city.

It took me 4 or 5 extremely hard, salty bricks of wheat - not really edible though I ate them anyways - to finally come up with my first decent loaves of the great staff of life.


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"The family car requires three times more space than the family home ( Read more... )

Treat myself better.
Be more in the present.
Get certified to teach and practice permaculture.

Happy New Year everyone!