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Newgrange 07 triple spiral

Thujarua 8-1-09

This photo was taken on Dec 20, 2007. I was accompanying Kyrie Murry into Newgrange after the solstice alignment event. I snuck in my camera. Kyrie is a bard in as old of a style as you can get in Ireland these days. He charmed the tour guides with his stories of the passage mound, and they did not complain about me snapping this picture...

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The Weight of a Snowflake

Thujarua 8-1-09

"Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a coal-mouse asked a wild dove. "Nothing more than nothing," was the answer. "In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the coal-mouse said. "I sat on a branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when it began to snow, not heavily, not in a giant blizzard, no, just like in a dream, without any violence.

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Summer dreams

Thujarua 7-18-09

I feel summer filling me with a warm-whelmingness. I feel like a lily, melting below the sun. What is that glowing orb? Ahh my retinas! --says the Cascadian. Life is distracting me from myself at every corner. Calls for synchronicity that I terribly deny in an effort to complete a chapter in my life. How do you follow your heart and your head at the same time?

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About Me

Bio

I dance between the worlds of old and new, urban and wilderness, simple and sublime. The most powerful and precious possessions I own are knowledge and skills.

Right now I am studying permaculture, forest gardening, and agroforestry.

I recently studied the astronomical alignments of megalithic remains in Ireland.

I am passionate about natural history, especially all things to do with plants, such as eating them, making medicine, gardening, and ecological restoration projects.

Skills and talents
singing, guitar, creating art, herbalism, languages, cinema, dancing, photography, environmental education, cooking, gardening, biking, lucid dreaming, basketry, weaving, botany, blogging, good cinema, hiking, camping, meditation, swimming, and laughing.
What I'm Reading
The Grateful Prey; books about perennial vegetables.
What I'm Listening To
Current Music I am getting into: Luar Na Lubre, Gwendal, J.J. Cale, Uncle Earl, Estrella Morente, Crooked Still, Great Big Sea, Minuit Gibboles, Ricky Scaggs, Rodrigo y Gabriela...
Movies I've Seen Recently
Recent Movies: Volver, Abre los Ojos, Hable con Ella, Como Agua por Chocolate, Paprika...
Website I'm Into
Permaculture Activist article I wrote about forest gardening...

Education

High school
Independence High School: '02
College
The Evergreen State College: '09. Bacheolor of Arts and Sciences. Emphases on Environmental Education and Ethnobotany
Additional study
Permaculture Design Certificate (Skeeter) '09; Study Abroad, Republic of Ireland '07; Wilderness Awareness School Tracking Intensive '07; Wolf Camp Earth Skills Teaching Apprenticeship '06; WNPS Native Plant Stewardship Program '05;