Hey Guys,
I’m back with another development in the living together front. I’m currently really inspired and pretty stoked. We are wwoofing at the oldest intentional community in NZ and its an infinite learning experience. Observation is our most useful skill here, but we still have to do the odd monotonous task. Currently Rebecca is sorting the library and having to catalogue the whole thing. A place like this yield’s itself to some pretty awesome literature and one jem we stumbled upon is an old freelance magazing publication: Outlaw building news. I wanted to share some inspirational things from it:
Outlaw Building News: 1972 Introduction
A thousand million years ago, there were five forms of photosynthetic life in the ocean: red, brown, green, blue-green, and yellow green. The form colonized the land. We go to the shore and see brown pacific kelp dying in the strange air.
We will never know the experiments which discovered the order principles and integrites which we carry in our genes
Ever since lately, the genes have had minds as their co-pilots. The purpose of minds is to help genes make life a success.
Our failures are chiefly failures of the imagination. We know our image of things is wrong. We know this because things go wrong in our own image. If there is a global failure of life, then it will be a failure in our own image, our image of living.
This class is a life architecture class. At its boldest, architecture is a statement of an image of living, for the form living takes is the germ of an architecture. And it has always been so in the way kelp grows its air bladder and floats its long ronds into sunlit water, in the way a fire must be built to cook a morning breakfast. A stovepipe, flue that draws well and a floatation chamber inflated under water. Order principles are experimental results. From Wallace Stevens: “the greatest poverty is not to live in a physical world”
We live partly in a physical world and partly in our image of it. Making a place in the country forces a physical world on us and demands some new images of us. Some old images get flushed into the open and we can look at them.
Here’s to helping ourselves see this process (Adam’s insertion)
Outlaw building news: 1972 excerpt from page 3:
“(It) was designed to give some actual experience in how to make a place in the country- learning something of the process of building a livable situation in harmony with the setting and ourselves. A learning situation directly connected to life’s flow, survival, sharing skills.
There was no place within the university system where we could live together, prepare good food together, build structures…. So we chose the country. A place where the awareness of change in ourselves, in our place, is too great not to be recognized.
We grew under the sky rather than under a ceiling. We worked to the sounds of nature, rather than the hum of fluorescent lights. We came together in a time and place that was right for us as a group.”
Outlaw Building News: 1972 excerpt:
“To move ones body in accord with ones thoughts is the highest form of learning I know”
Thought these passages were a fitting. If you cant tell I’m pretty stoked about seeing what happens.
I’ve heard from some more folks and thought I would expand on the list of folks and what they are up to (all things in Bold are the biggest changes):
Rebecca Wolfe: Definitely in. Will be returning to Oregon in July, and has offered to start looking for a place for the group to rent
Adam McGrath: Definitely in. Will be returning to Oregon in August, then heading to Colorado to pick up AMac. Most likely going to be buying a diesel van or pick uptruck to move Amac and get my trailer. Then this fall we will make it run on veggie oil and work towards making it a group vehicle. Amac’s inclusion is currently pending
Max Bittman: Definitely in. Bought a huge black house bus he is running on veggie oil of some sort. Mentioned going to california then meeting up with everyone in Oregon in the fall
Michael Zeligs: Definitely in. Finished school. Could be headed to india in june.
Zach Waddel: Definitely in. Going to Peru this summer then heading out to Oregon.
Alex McCaffree: Applied for a Geo-corps job. If he gets it he will be living in Cali playing with rocks from Oct to march, then heading to Oregon. Otherwise he will be moving with Adam in August out to Oregon. Still in boulder working 3 jobs
Dana Guber: Is back in boulder now. Working some jobs. Plans to return to South America in the fall, then will be moving to Oregon in March or April
Pete Lundeen: Back from south America. Working in pueblo. Could be going to beloved and possibly moving to Oregon in November. Has a new phone so contact him to get his digits.
Erin Grady: Will graduate soon. Then off on some crazy adventures including the Earthfirst gathering in main. Hitching across Canada. And then Norcal to make some cash this fall. Could very well be lookin for a place to nest for the winter before heading out into homelessness again.
Tatiana Tinsley: Just became a new aunt. Will finish up school and maybe teach abroad or do the peace corps. Staying close to home for a bit.
Alec Harris: Just decided on Harvard law, but is deffering for a year. Exciting stuff. Could be getting a new job which may give him some time to travel, and join the group in oregon from time to time, but is committed to law school
Conor Burns: Conor has a good job at the moment in Engeneering and has some debt to pay off before he can commit, but is indeed interested
Davis Fogerty: Has still another year at CU finishing up his masters degree.
Paul Kimbro: Still in Alaska skiing, and pursuing professional skiing career. May come and live with us in oregon till the snow starts falling in November or December. Also very keen to teach about vegie oil vans!
Alex Marienthal: Is very interested in the idea, but is currently living in Bozeman MT and just finished school in snow science so he is working on finding a potential job in the field, but maybe involved in the warmer months
Dustin Cady: Still living in Spain, but has a teach for america job in Colorado Springs for at least 2 years. He is very interested in helping out with the idea.
Veronica S: plans for the next few years include: finding a job in the counseling vicinity (i have applied to some in Portland, Bend, Seattle, Denver, Boston, New York and DC...in order of preference), then going to grad school for clinical counseling of some sort if my job next year proves satisfying.
Eckert: Is off to Alaska to fly fish guide this summer. Ski bum this winter and travel and finish up school. Could be joining in Fall of 2011.
Lauren: Still living on the east coast down south. Plans on going to gradschool is pretty open ended at the moment.
The fallowing list is folks I have not heard back from: Dominique, Casey, and Gracie.
Stoking and growing,
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