Bio

I grew up in the woods and fields not far from the rocky shore or the blue ridged peaks, playing in the scents and sounds and sights of the verdant blossoming dying reborn earth, and supported by a loving, nourishing family. I'm eternally grateful for these things, and try to keep the memories in my heart as best as I can despite the bumps and rolls of everyday work and school and responsibility city life I know find myself engaged in...

My whole life has seemed to be a gathering spiral explosion into greater awareness, helped along by my great friends the fungi, which have led me here and many other places, though circuitous and uncertain the path may often seem. I feel that now something is happening, or perhaps only must happen by our own making, and devote my energy and future towards realizing this wave of change we all seem to be caught up in and riding along.

I'm looking over the edge, back at the flames, and wondering how to fly...

Skills and talents

my talents are growing in permaculture (i.e. holistic, nature-inspired design that moves with the flow to close systems, max yield with minimal input and benefit the whole community of beings) and so too in fungi cultivation. I also have a knack for writing, especially where arguments are concerned over the subjects I care mostly deeply about. Mostly I am coming to know myself as a perciever and weaver of seemingly distinct parts into a dynamic, cohesive whole. whether they be plants, people or beliefs, I am cultivating my ability to see and synergize elements.

Interests

Entheogens, herbalism, mycology, neotribalism, Permaculture, stars, the forests, the moon, the sea and the elves

What I'm Reading

The Last Years of Ancient Sunlight, Gaia's Garden (beginning permaculture)

Movies I've Seen Recently

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Websites I'm Into

Mycotopia (grow shrooms), Urban Permaculture Guild (SF Permaculture), Raiazome (hypothetical collapse of modern civilization)

Education

High school

Yes

College

at San Francisco State right now, Sustainability and Social Justice

Additional study

the sway of bamboo stalks set against the heavenly blue euphoric October sky that brought me here.... the doorway to mystery in the eye of the half-slivered moon one night...