Colaptes auratus
- Gender: Female
- Industry: Environment
- Occupation: writer-editor/scientist/aspiring land steward
- Location: Puget Sound Basin : United States
About Me
I live with my partner and a pooch 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
- foraging
- natural building
- primitivism
- watershed stewardship
- cob
- writing
- wild spaces
- deep breaths
- creativity
- acts of kindness
- dancing
- being near the ocean
- sitting in a tree
- global vegetarian cuisine
- poetry
- stretching
- wildlife and domestic critters
- peace studies
- sustainability
- sexuality
- 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...
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".
Blogs
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