I've mioved to Olympia after 8 years away from that corner of the Salish Sea. I'm starting a Permaculture Research Farm.

I'm having some big stuff coming up in my life. Finally figuring out who and what I am.

i'm working on urban planning, permaculture, landscape architecture projects. I love language and culture and nature and learning. ask me questions- i respond well to them.

learning that everything's a clue...

talking, design, patterns, communication, changing and learning, reading, harvesting plants and seeds, being amazed by everything, seeing all things as the same system, being confused, being certain

people usually think i got a weird new haircut. nope, it just changes it's style on it's own every day.

or that i'm so excited about something

i like stories that work on many levels. i like things like plant ecology, ecological design, antrhopology, economics, art, history. i like thinking about thinking. and i get excited learning about what get's someone else excited!

I like berries, i like nettles, i like peas, i like figs, i do eat meat but know that it's a life.

watersheds, fire ecology, grasslands, succession, supercontinents, culture

http://youtu.be/BdXklYUJCxI

i've been geeking out on systems theory and realizing that humans run at 100w
the average work a human does
weather turning food into heat or riding a bike
that's our energy level
if you are super-fit you can get to 150
and since it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become great at something...
that means it takes a total of 3.6 gigajoules of energy to make an expert
which is about as much energy as an average washing machine uses in a year
i was thinking about how making things and making patterns are the best ways to store that hundred watts
if you just watch tv you are basically just turning that into heat
but when you, for example, make goat cheese, you are using the milk and culture as a kind of battery to store some of your energy
and
if you want to gather enough energy in 10 years through the net productive of photosynthesis you only need 1000 square feet of leaf or algae surface
in the PNW
that's all

so i've generally been one for the "sit in a cafe, with espresso, telling life stories and passions." but i don't feel like that as much anymore. I am sooooo busy but usually busy with activities.

So here is a list of activities that i'm wanting to do and it would be fun to meet someone while doing them:

- get paper and pens and draw like how we all did when we were five
- build a compost pile
- sheetmulch my apple tree
- collect plants for propagation
- harvest lupin seeds along the burke-gillman
- wildcraft berries in a park
- go somewhere and draw
- visit the village sites mentioned in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_before_the_city and learn the names, layout, and stories of those places and communities
-walk between all of the hills in town

it's not so much that i'm great at all those things- i'm not - i just want to start doing them more!