What a wild road.

Due to lack of resources,
A2BGreen:Cuba was coming
to an end. Hwy 33 Ojai, CA
is as far as this project
went. Decided to take a
train from Ventura, CA to
Flagstaff, AZ to have
Christmas with my mother.
My family was deeply con-
cerned about me crossing
the border into Mexico.
Fear-mongering in the
media put fear into my
family and soon into me.

Signs, signs, everywhere signs.
The universe has been good to me.

If you conspire, so will the
universe, don't be afraid, if
you feel a cause inside, it is
for good reason. Intuition is
the greatest asset one could
have, regardless of what
corporate media may say.

Kalidasa

"Look to this day:

For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the varieties and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendor of achievement
Are but experiences of time.

For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well therefore to this day;
Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!"

http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual_and_devotional_poets/india/kalidasa/kalidasa_poems/loo/

What do we label it?

1.Manifest.

2.Write it down.

3.Execute.

Join the Resistance: Fall in Love.

Crimethinc.com

"For the lover speaks a different moral and emotional
language than the typical bourgeois man does.
The average bourgeois man has no overwhelming,
smoldering desires. Sadly, all he knows is the silent
despair that comes of spending his life pursuing goals
set for him by his family, his educators, his employers,
his nation, and his culture, without ever being able
to even consider what needs and wants he might have of
his own. Without the burning fire of desire to guide
him, he has no criteria upon which to choose what is
right and wrong for himself. Consequently he is forced
to adopt some dogma or doctrine to direct him through
his life. There are a wide variety of moralities to
choose from in the marketplace of ideas, but which
morality a man buys into is immaterial so long as he
chooses one because he is at a loss otherwise as to
what he should do with himself and his life. How many
men and women, having never realized that they had the
option to choose their own destinies, wander through
life in a dull haze thinking and acting in accordance
with the laws that have been taught to them, merely
because they no longer have any other idea of what to
do? But the lover needs no prefabricated principles
to direct her; her desires identify what is right and
wrong for her, for her heart guides her through life.
She sees beauty and meaning in the world, because her
desires paint the world in these colors. She has no
need for dogmas, for moral systems, for commandments
and imperatives, for she knows what to do without
instructions."

http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/selected/joinresistance.php
[Copy and Paste]:)

"Not sure if I have permission to copyleft this, but until
told otherwise, this is how it flys."

Letting go of expectations

I do not feel I have been too successful in this endeavor of
blogging my journey and learning experiences along the way to
Cuba. It is challenging to survive and learn while in
a country going through an economic crisis.


Lesson 1: Create intersections

Like the animals that meet at the water hole to drink, humans
meet. Like the animials at the water hole humans converse,
interact, get to know one an another as opposed to divided and
conquered."Create intersections", in many ways. City Repair
hosted a Village Building Convergence in Portland, Oregon this
summer.Creating intersections was the main theme and the main
lesson I took, objective achieved.

Lesson 2: D.I.Y. and Anarchy.

Yes, everyone is an artist, DO IT YOURSELF, alternative is
Corporate America. You always have a choice.
The "A word", I like to refer to as, "D.I.Y. Culture", because
the media has red flagged them in mainstream as a bunch of
rock throwing riff-raff. I look forward to correcting this.

Lesson 3: The way we treat mother earth is the way we treat women.

Judi Barli, Revolutionary Ecology.

"The holistic and interdependent eco-feminist view in which humans are inseparable from nature, is not any different than deep ecology or biocentrism. This is simply another way of saying the same thing. And so, to embrace biocentrism or deep ecology, is to challenge the masculine system of knowledge that underlies the destruction of the earth, and that underlies the justification for the way our society is structured.

Eco-feminism, however, does not seek to dominate men as women have been dominated under patriarchy. Instead, it seeks to find a balance. We need both the masculine and the feminine forces. It's not that we need to get rid of the masculine force. Both of them exist in the world but must exist in balance. We need the conquering and the dominance as well as we need the nurturing. Eco-feminism seeks find that balance."

http://www.judibari.org/revolutionary-ecology.html

Our deepest fear....

OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS NOT THAT
WE ARE INADEQUATE.
OUR DEEPEST FEAR IS THAT WE
ARE POWERFUL BEYOND
MEASURE. IT IS OUR LIGHT, NOT
OUR DARKNESS, THAT MOST
FRIGHTENS US. WE ASK
OURSELVES, WHO AM I TO BE
BRILLIANT, GORGEOUS, TALENTED
AND FABULOUS? YOUR ARE A
CHILD OF GOD. YOUR PLAYING
SMALL DOESN'T SERVE THE
WORLD. THERE'S NOTHING
ENLIGHTENED ABOUT SHRINKING
SO THAT OTHER PEOPLE WON'T
FEEL INSECURE AROUND YOU.
WE ARE BORN TO MAKE
MANIFEST THE GLORY OF GOD
THAT IS WITHIN US. IT'S NOT
JUST IN SOME OF US; IT'S IN
EVERYONE. AND AS WE LET OUR
OWN LIGHT SHINE, WE
UNCONSCIOUSLY GIVE OTHER
PEOPLE PERMISSION TO DO THE
SAME. AS WE ARE LIBERATED
FROM OUR OWN FEAR, OUR
PRESENCE AUTOMATICALLY
LIBERATES OTHERS.

Nelson Mandela
1994 Inaugural speech

Paralyzed with fear

Burn bright and shine next to those who choose
not to.

I love everyone, I am a desperate person, I
just want to learn to learn, then I can make use
of myself in society using my fullest potential.

I have learned that cooperative behaviour rather
than competitive behaviour is essential for our
survival as a living race.

When people tell me our world is dominated by
the corporations, I tell them, "there is a coop
for every commodity that you can think of". If
there isn't, then there should. This is my
reality.

I think cooperatives could out compete the
destructive corporations.

What do you think?

is this possible?

Thank you for your time :)

Potential bee corridor in back alley

Solar Dehydrator

My friend Naga lives in a neat little urban community

I left my bicycle and hitched to Village Building Convergence back up in Portland.

Eel River, Klamath River, Redwood National Forest, Rockefeller Forest. Northern California.

Green Collar Worker, in pursuit of Permaculture, no green-wash intended.

Buck Minster Fuller

"In 1927, at age thirty-two, finding myself a "throwaway" in
the business world, I sought to use myself as my scientific
"guinea pig" (my most objectively considered research "subject")
in a lifelong experiment designed to discover what -if anything
-a healthy young male human of average size, experience, and
capability with an economically dependent wife and newborn
child, starting without capital or any kind of wealth, cash
savings, account monies, credit, or university degree, could
effectively do that could not be done by great nations or great
private enterprise to lastingly improve the physical protect-
ion and support of all human lives, at the same time removing
undesirable restraints and improving individual initiatives
of any and all humans aboard our planet Earth."

Critical Path (1981)

"We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of special-
ization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently,
society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be
crisply brief. . . . In the meantime, humanity has been deprived
of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings
of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has
also resulted in the individual's leaving responsibility for
thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds
biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological
discord, which, in turn, leads to war."

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but
possibly one of the most important is the fact that society
operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success,
not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

"on first priority in design consideration is the full realization
of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative —
full realization for all individuals"

No More Secondhand God (1963)

Eugene, Oregon

http://www.maitreyaecovillage.org/

Still learning, always learning....learning to work with my hands

Manifest.

Pistol River Oregon and soon Redwood National Forest, California.

Oregon coast and Humbug Myrtlewood Grove

Eugene Oregon and passing, wish I could have stayed longer, met some good friends.

I didn't take as many good pictures as I would have liked :(
must move on anyways.

Portland, Oregon

Terra Commons Bicycle Garden Tour

Olympia, WA

Breaking patterns

(http://www.practicalanarchy.org/fnb_crass.html)

"Anarchism and Non-Violence:

There have been many concerns raised about whether or not anarchism and non-violence are compatible. We argue that anarchism and non-violence are inseparable.

First, let us look at the historic role of the state. Christopher Day, of the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, writes: "The state - by which we mean the police, the army, the prisons, the courts, the various government bureaucracies, legislative and executive bodies - is the enforcer and regulator of authoritarian rule. The state maintains a monopoly on organized legal violence." Day writes further, "The state has always been an instrument of war. It is impossible to conceive of a society without war in a society still dominated by states."

In the Food Not Bombs book Feeding the Hungry and Building Community, it is explained that, "The name Food Not Bombs states our most fundamental principle; society needs to promote life, not death. Our society condones, and even promotes violence and domination. Authority and power are derived from the threat and use of violence."

The state and correspondingly capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy, concentrate power into the hands of the few, which systematically denies power to the majority of humanity. The denial of power over ones own life contributes to the violence that permeates day to day life. Violence happens in hundreds of different ways, everyday, as a result of this system of inequality. Whether it comes through rent, food with pesticides and price tags that hide the damages done to workers, taxes, jobs working to make someone else rich, malnutrition, police sweeps of homeless people, forced sterilization of women of color, social exclusion of poor people, and the list goes on.

So what is the connection between anarchism and non-violence? We must recover the long history of anarchist resistance and movement that has existed, and we will find that in fact anarchism and the struggle for a non-violent world have a long history."

Seattle, WA

Food Not Bombs is not criminal behaviour as some would believe. "Free food!! for everyone"

Fremont Library and Seattle Center