How does community continue?
Constant companionship, collaboration with compatriots
We're as patriotic as they come
We come I come Some come
We float
In and out
Of kitchens, basements, pantries, doorways
Of focus, kindness, calm
We struggle up the mountain
We have so little time
We have so much to say
A flought goes unsaid
Once alive, now dead
Revitalize that *spaghetti dinner* in your head,
When one teaches, others must agree to being led
*Circles* are formed, learning shan't be required
Best when pursued
All paths perused
But which to choose
Some rather'd buy shoes in a scheme of dark and bright hues
Instead take your 50 bucks
and get the Healing touch
Take time to feel, time to heal
We're on a wheel of Fortune
I am fortunate to be a part of this community
It's pretty new to me
I'm trying to come through you see
Between you and me
Exists a wall
Varying in height
from 20 ft tall to none at all
Abandoned in 1979
It was supposed to be felled in 1989
Recorded in 1982
But some remains
are stacked in a milk crate somewhere
*reference to Carmen's baller spaghetti squash dinner!!!
*reference to the Killer Kava circle, gotta happen again.
LOVE TO ALL OF YOU, I AM YOUR MOTHER
sydney
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
one day until we come home.
Update from Peesh, out in the Raynham!
One more day. I feel similarly on the coping-with-society front - my week has consisted of jar-confused baristas, listening to Rosa ("just sounds like kids yelling"), drinking Wolavers with friends who are drinking Smirnoff Ice, dreaming about farming, and telling my mother's best friend about our skinned robotic horse Chauncey. I even showed her a picture.
But the video Russ sent out really got to me in an interesting fashion. Aside from the meat meat meat focus (I just don't really like meat), wow! I'd do that. Let's do that. We don't have to wait for Mikayla's proposed Slade-retirement-commune. We could literally just live like that. It looks a bit like what we would do if we didn't have reslife breathing down our necks.
After seeing that video and watching a few others on that site, I've been giving a lot of thought to videos and radio-shows as a means of education. Would anyone like to get together a few nights a week to listen to the Greenhorns radio? It's really cute and there are 60-something of them! Here is a link: http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/programs/7-Greenhorn-Radio
On another note, I'm pumped for warmth and when Slade gets too hot so we sleep outside and dream about tent-city. Tonight the clocks change, we get one more hour of light! That's rad. I'm so torn about doing school work when I could be dumpster diving and foraging and gardening and building a home for a bunch of pals who love living together and doing the same thing. Or maybe I'm just torn about Slade because we can do all that but we don't get to keep it. Ephemeral things, you know? They're beautiful.
See you tomorrow!
Peaches
P.S. look at this cool poster I found in my basement!
One more day. I feel similarly on the coping-with-society front - my week has consisted of jar-confused baristas, listening to Rosa ("just sounds like kids yelling"), drinking Wolavers with friends who are drinking Smirnoff Ice, dreaming about farming, and telling my mother's best friend about our skinned robotic horse Chauncey. I even showed her a picture.
But the video Russ sent out really got to me in an interesting fashion. Aside from the meat meat meat focus (I just don't really like meat), wow! I'd do that. Let's do that. We don't have to wait for Mikayla's proposed Slade-retirement-commune. We could literally just live like that. It looks a bit like what we would do if we didn't have reslife breathing down our necks.
After seeing that video and watching a few others on that site, I've been giving a lot of thought to videos and radio-shows as a means of education. Would anyone like to get together a few nights a week to listen to the Greenhorns radio? It's really cute and there are 60-something of them! Here is a link: http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/programs/7-Greenhorn-Radio
On another note, I'm pumped for warmth and when Slade gets too hot so we sleep outside and dream about tent-city. Tonight the clocks change, we get one more hour of light! That's rad. I'm so torn about doing school work when I could be dumpster diving and foraging and gardening and building a home for a bunch of pals who love living together and doing the same thing. Or maybe I'm just torn about Slade because we can do all that but we don't get to keep it. Ephemeral things, you know? They're beautiful.
See you tomorrow!
Peaches
P.S. look at this cool poster I found in my basement!
Russ's email was nice.
Hey team,
Time for the mid-vacation "I miss Slade" blues:
My friend just showed me this cool video about a homestead in Asheville, NC. It's the second video (made up of several videos)in this link, about the "Montana House:
http://www.americarecycled.org/
Immediately after viewing, I felt two strong emotions: frustration at him not believing that I live at a place very similar to this one, and happiness at knowing that I do. Obviously we're not exactly a homestead, but are some definite similarities.
Hope yall are well,
Russtopher
p.s. I say we challenge them to a basketball game.
Time for the mid-vacation "I miss Slade" blues:
My friend just showed me this cool video about a homestead in Asheville, NC. It's the second video (made up of several videos)in this link, about the "Montana House:
http://www.americarecycled.org/
Immediately after viewing, I felt two strong emotions: frustration at him not believing that I live at a place very similar to this one, and happiness at knowing that I do. Obviously we're not exactly a homestead, but are some definite similarities.
Hope yall are well,
Russtopher
p.s. I say we challenge them to a basketball game.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
louisbourg pennsyltucky
greetings space martians && marsha bradys
a big howdy doo from me to youu. i'm sitting in my kitchen, altho i started this post in ZELDAS my fams coffee shop.
i did mad werk there yesterday, i felt like suuuch a college kid.
also yesterday I played witha fluffy kitten named baby beaner, watched aristocats, read a PHUCKED UP STORY outloud (the yellow wallpaper....look it up. it's about the slippery slope known more familiarly as sanity) and drank whiskey and smoked spliff and cigarettes and ashed in a lamp and shared my soul with my friends and my brother.
hrmmmm
also looked at a bunch of nudie piks and beautiful old skool music videos (renaldo & clara, bob dylan's 1973 tour ahhhhh)
check out my friendies tumblr page, i know youll all dig it!!!
http://fernsandmoss.tumblr.com/archive
ALSO i, duhhh, made it home safe and sound after trying to hitch from VT to NYC. Hannah and I ended up taking the train and having all sorts of mishaps getting there and in but there and in we were.
here is the grand finale of the Tibet Benefit House Concert 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iatlprI7qoE
Stayed in Tae Baby's apartment in Harlem EEEEEEK i love her fam. Angie, mad props!
Played in Central Park, met my dreddy pal Emere from Turkey. Thanks for the ride emere(ica)!
bussed it to pa, got in Fridday nite, pregamed with mama wine goddess and went to see my fav local band play at my fams bar.
check out Snakes are Strong on facebook!
Saturday: skateboarded most of the day, ya ya ya, went to a storytelling event about TRAVEL then jammed with my bois the Lunch Ladies/Spaceships r Us until midnite or so.
Sunday: worked at ZEldas, hung out there, went home chilled wiff Brudda Ben. Read patti smith and conked out around 915.
Monday: skool work all day at Zeldas, got shit done. Friends maddy and casey came to find me, i started this post, we emailed a friend in Niceragua, my friend Taylor met us, discussed past Presiden'ts personalities, went on an adventure. Taylor is a cutie, hopefully hanging out with him today too.
enuff already Syd, no one cares!!!!!
LOVE SYDNEY
a big howdy doo from me to youu. i'm sitting in my kitchen, altho i started this post in ZELDAS my fams coffee shop.
i did mad werk there yesterday, i felt like suuuch a college kid.
also yesterday I played witha fluffy kitten named baby beaner, watched aristocats, read a PHUCKED UP STORY outloud (the yellow wallpaper....look it up. it's about the slippery slope known more familiarly as sanity) and drank whiskey and smoked spliff and cigarettes and ashed in a lamp and shared my soul with my friends and my brother.
hrmmmm
also looked at a bunch of nudie piks and beautiful old skool music videos (renaldo & clara, bob dylan's 1973 tour ahhhhh)
check out my friendies tumblr page, i know youll all dig it!!!
http://fernsandmoss.tumblr.com/archive
ALSO i, duhhh, made it home safe and sound after trying to hitch from VT to NYC. Hannah and I ended up taking the train and having all sorts of mishaps getting there and in but there and in we were.
here is the grand finale of the Tibet Benefit House Concert 2011:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iatlprI7qoE
Stayed in Tae Baby's apartment in Harlem EEEEEEK i love her fam. Angie, mad props!
Played in Central Park, met my dreddy pal Emere from Turkey. Thanks for the ride emere(ica)!
bussed it to pa, got in Fridday nite, pregamed with mama wine goddess and went to see my fav local band play at my fams bar.
check out Snakes are Strong on facebook!
Saturday: skateboarded most of the day, ya ya ya, went to a storytelling event about TRAVEL then jammed with my bois the Lunch Ladies/Spaceships r Us until midnite or so.
Sunday: worked at ZEldas, hung out there, went home chilled wiff Brudda Ben. Read patti smith and conked out around 915.
Monday: skool work all day at Zeldas, got shit done. Friends maddy and casey came to find me, i started this post, we emailed a friend in Niceragua, my friend Taylor met us, discussed past Presiden'ts personalities, went on an adventure. Taylor is a cutie, hopefully hanging out with him today too.
enuff already Syd, no one cares!!!!!
LOVE SYDNEY
Monday, March 7, 2011
A Southern Update
This is Kelsey reporting from below the Mason-Dixon line.
It is 42 degrees here today. That is summer, right? I am enjoying the warm weather. I am enjoying not wearing my down jacket, my scarf, my mittens, my hat, and my two layers of tights. Even though, I am getting a good dose of vitamin D, I still miss my boogers freezing in Vermont.
Here is how I am coping with my Vermont separation:
1. Drinking Magic Hat
2. Drunkenly telling strangers about the mechanical Chauncey and the human Chauncey
3. Bonding with said strangers over Star Trek
4. Wearing Kait's Vermont Flower Show pin
5. Taking my jar to coffee shops (baristas too confused)
In other news, I went through some of my old things and found my alice in wonderland vhs, my complete illustrated lewis carroll book, and hello kitty's hair bows. Perhaps, I will bring those home.
On my way back from North Carolina yesterday, I saw these billboards:
"Everyone who is pro-abortion has already been born"
(Reagan quote)
and
"If it's not a baby, then you're not pregnant!"
what logic!
Tonight, Bread and Puppet is coming to Hollins University in Roanoke, so I will go show my Vermont love. Ironically, I have never seen Bread and Puppet in the state of Vermont.
~kale~say~ (this is really how my aunt pronounces my name with her southern accent)
the south will rise again - dad
p.s. I will read you bedtime stories out of it.
It is 42 degrees here today. That is summer, right? I am enjoying the warm weather. I am enjoying not wearing my down jacket, my scarf, my mittens, my hat, and my two layers of tights. Even though, I am getting a good dose of vitamin D, I still miss my boogers freezing in Vermont.
Here is how I am coping with my Vermont separation:
1. Drinking Magic Hat
2. Drunkenly telling strangers about the mechanical Chauncey and the human Chauncey
3. Bonding with said strangers over Star Trek
4. Wearing Kait's Vermont Flower Show pin
5. Taking my jar to coffee shops (baristas too confused)
In other news, I went through some of my old things and found my alice in wonderland vhs, my complete illustrated lewis carroll book, and hello kitty's hair bows. Perhaps, I will bring those home.
On my way back from North Carolina yesterday, I saw these billboards:
"Everyone who is pro-abortion has already been born"
(Reagan quote)
and
"If it's not a baby, then you're not pregnant!"
what logic!
Tonight, Bread and Puppet is coming to Hollins University in Roanoke, so I will go show my Vermont love. Ironically, I have never seen Bread and Puppet in the state of Vermont.
~kale~say~ (this is really how my aunt pronounces my name with her southern accent)
the south will rise again - dad
p.s. I will read you bedtime stories out of it.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
SLADERS GOT TALENT
Kait, Kels...
I'm just trying to say I love you, come back home.
Much love and country karaoke,
the other kelsey
I'm just trying to say I love you, come back home.
Much love and country karaoke,
the other kelsey
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