Colaptes auratus

• Gender: Female
• Location: Puget Sound Basin : United States

About Me

I live in the watershed to which I was born; this is a workshop for exploring arrant kindnesses, my surroundings, and anything else that seems fitting. In life, I aspire to aid the effort to restore the historic processes of my landbase.

Your pajamas have duckies on them. Why did you switch from choo-choos?

I prefer feathers, webbed toes and beaks to screeching brakes, the chill of metal, and fellow passengers snoring in my compartment.

Interests

• awareness & appreciation of our landbase
• community among neighbors
• ecology
• massage
• handwritten letters
• love notes
• foraging
• natural building
• primitivism
• watershed stewardship
• cob
• writing
• wild spaces
• deep breathing
• creativity
• indy media
• acts of kindness
• dancing
• being near the ocean
• sitting in a tree
• tree houses
• global vegetarian cuisine
• poetry
• stretching
• napping with friends
• wildlife and domestic critters
• peace studies
• sustainability
• hammocks
• hiking biking and walking in the Pacific Northwest
• ecovillages
• hemp bamboo & other alternatives to dead trees
• learning good songs
• sharing tea and conversation with friends
• reveling
• revelation...

Favorite Music

• Celtic
• west african drumming
• afro-cuban
• folksy americana
• many styles none too electric
• though some electric I'm currently learning to like.

Favorite Books

• A smattering of the many: "Peace Is Every Step"
• "A General Theory on Love"
• "A People's History of the United States"
• "Old Turtle and The Broken Truth"
• "Arctic Dreams"
• "Ordinary Wolves"
• "The Culture of Make Believe"
• "Animals in Translation"
• "Next of Kin"
• "Sangoma"
• "The Impossible Will Take A Little While"
• "Earth's Blanket"
• "Poetry Like Bread"
• "A Sand County Almanac"
• "Guns Germs and Steel"
• any poetry chapbook written by a friend
• "Spectacular Nature"
• "Planetary Overload"
• "Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast"
• "When the Drummers Were Women"
• "Field Guide to the Birds of North America"
• "The Ecology of Commerce"
• "Uncommon Ground"
• "Meetings With Remarkable Trees"
• "Good Faeries Bad Faeries"
• "The Hand-Sculpted House"
• "The Girl In The Flammable Skirt"
• "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"
• "Somewhere To Be Flying"
• "Always Coming Home".

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