Dec. 18th, 2005

Also.

Dec. 18th, 2005 12:37 am
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Option
3) leave company, go work in Alaska this summer surveying, or Iowa doing something random a relative gets for me, follow my bio-dad's footprints and end up in the bush in Florida for a year foraging or something, become pleasantly eccentric, and be surprised by whatever happens next.
a) mostly here for entertainment value. Oddly compelling.
b) I like my family
c) I have family here I'd miss
d) genetics are compelling. Bush living! Get by or die!

Repoetry

Dec. 18th, 2005 08:22 am
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Greatpoets is iszzling lately. Go check it out. Meanwhile:

Failing and Flying
by Jack Gilbert

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
Every morning she was asleep in my bed
like a visitation, the gentleness in her
like antelope standing in the dawn mist.
Each afternoon I watched her coming back
through the hot stony field after swimming,
the sea light behind her and the huge sky
on the other side of that. Listened to her
while we ate lunch. How can they say
the marriage failed? Like the people who
came back from Provence (when it was Provence)
and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.
I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.

Morning again. With the sun risen, I'll breakfast and then sleep.

These...

Dec. 18th, 2005 08:36 am
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...fall into my inbox this morning.

Vancouver Permaculture Network and
the Circle of Life Education Society present

Permaculture Design Course
Edenvale Organic Farm & Retreat Centre
Aldergrove, BC
Aug 14-26, 2006

ExpandRead more... )

and http://www.permaculture-hawaii.com/intern.html

There are lots of options if I stay.

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