Friday, September 2, 2011

thorn junction -> redwoods -> willits -> sebastopol

sometimes i'm occupied with other things and sometimes there is no internet available for blogging. so i've gotten pretty behind. but i want you all to know basically how things are going and where i am.
things are going GREAT and i am going to arrive in petaluma tomorrow evening. the internship at Green String Farm starts on sunday!

(note: this is just an outline that i intend to fill in more details in later)

i spent a week in thorn junction with folks who are close with my mother. it was a very restful and fulfilling time. i swam and bathed in a stream and small river. one day we spent the afternoon at an ocean beach boogie-boarding!

while in arcata i'd heard about an event at richardson grove to honor the trees. there i met some first nations elder women and lots of other nice folks. some folks joined with me as i sang a joules graves song of healing to close the ceremony. i am mention in an article, and there are more photos here!
i swam in the eel river, which was nice, but not the nicest since it currently has slimy algae growing in it and floating around.
at the end of the event a woman showed up who was on her way south to the santa cruz area via 101. i took the opportunity and we ended up camping in the woods near ecology action.

i spent one day working in the garden at ecology action with the awesome interns there. the next day i was recruited for a trip out to 'the coast site', where i did some double-digging of some very hard earth along with a couple good guys. the coordinator of this research garden took us out for burgers at mendo burgers in mendocino. i decided to go without the bun and instead sandwiched it between a couple sturdy leaves of lettuce. yay!

wednesday i got a ride with a guy from ecology action to santa rosa. we had the best conversation along the way... my friend toni had recommended going to sebastopol, so i rode the bike trail between santa rosa and there, called the joe rodota trail, and arrived around 7:30pm.
stayed with a guy who i'd met on the trail. he let me stay in the 'man cave', which was like a little music studio with a clubhouse feel. there was a pear tree right outside the door that was dropping it's gifts all over the hard ground which i took as a sign of support.

the next day i used the computer at the sebastopol library and then used the phone at whole foods to call a friend who lives in SF. she recommended that i check out this eco-village called 'green valley village'. so outside the whole foods i asked the first folks who seemed likely to know, and one of them, coincidentally, was living at that very community! i was in a hurry but had me call his partner to see about visiting. his friend was in less of a hurry and helped me with the use of her i-phone. when it didn't seem to be panning out to visit the eco-village i asked 'can i come help you in YOUR garden?' and got an enthusiastic 'yes!'. she drew me a little map and i rode there while she drove to her little home amidst an apple orchard on green valley rd.

rachel was so kind to open up her home to me, and we found we had many common interests. we meditated together, shared good food (which i prepared for us), and worked in the garden. we also attended a tri yoga class on friday morning. i ended up staying with rachel two nights, sleeping on her porch with the sublime padding of a doubled-over sheepskin. i made mint sun tea and hung some of the mint to dry in her little cottage.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you Davis for your lovely meals! you are a great cook. I love how you are so thoughtful about food prep, using the sun to warm food and my sheepskin to keep things hot! Thank you for teaching me a bit more ;) I appreciate your help with making my lovely new circular compost , weeding and mulching. I enjoyed meditating with you. I'm happy to have made it into your blog and that I had something to offer a kind, conscious, traveling earth steward.

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