I finally broke down and started my business for teaching rewilding. We offer a free skill-share every Sunday (Rewild Camp) and will be starting up Saturday workshops that will cost a little cash and are developing some longer term programs to start next year. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization operating as a subsidiary of Mythmedia. Check out more at www.rewildportland.com and join our mailing list to hear about when/where Rewild Camp is going on each week, and also info about our upcoming workshops.
Thursday September 9th in Bend, OR. I will be speaking about tending the wild and rewilding at the Real Food and Sustainability Conference, opening for Lierre Keith and later sitting on a panel. Check out the website here:
Wednesday September 15th, Portland OR. I’ll be doing a book reading at Reading Frenzy. ” Urban Scout will read from his book, teach a few rewilding tricks (like fire-by-friction, natural cordage, coiling baskets and mind-blowing sensory expansion), and wrap things up with a Q&A.”
This week I made a bone awl for my friend Leslie who lives in North Carolina. I also worked on sharpening my knives but I can’t seem to get a super sharp edge no matter how many times I run the knife along the sharpener, nor the angle that I hold the knife. I don’t understand why I can’t get these effing knives sharp. It would make sense if the knives themselves couldn’t hold an edge because of shitty forging, but I’ve tried even my best knives. Why can’t I get it right?!?
This week at Echoes in Time my friend David and I led a workshop on bark-tanning. I also played an amazing game of WAYK Chinook Jargon. Aside from the classes I spent most of the time sleeping off a severe hangover in my tent. A hangover due to to drinking too much whiskey one night early in the week with my ex-girlfriend Emily: Tracker of Plants (the artist formerly known as Penny Scout), in an attempt to reconcile the bad blood between us. Phew! What a week.
I’ve volunteered at Echoes in Time for about 5 years now and this year I’ve decided to teach a few classes. I will do some awareness type games, a “Where Are Your Keys” Chinuk Wawa class, American Sign Language Animal Tracking class, bow-drill, and maybe some other stuff I can’t remember. Echoes presents one of the most cost effective ways of learning these skills and provides a place for social networking to make rewilding friends such as myself!
When: July 19-23, 2010
Where: Willamette Mission State Park just north of Salem, Oregon
Week Cost: $128/adult $68/children 6-13
Contact: www.echoes-in-time.com
A few years ago a local filmmaker made this short about echoes. I have a cameo!
After a year long experiment with a new rewild.info, I have decided to bring back the old rewild.info with a few new changes that you probably won’t notice. I did a little reorganizing and changed the banner. That’s pretty much it. It feels kind of weird, like finding an old favorite article of clothing that you forgot you had. Does it still fit? Am I still the same person? Can I integrate it back into my life? Can we move forward in a new way? I sure hope so. Thanks to all who had the patience to try out the new forum. And thanks for all the voices who pushed the old one to make its comeback. Check it out here:
The Starfish and the Spider feels like an anecdotal book about decentralization. Written for stupid corporate fat cats, the book can feel rather sluggish and boring at times; talking about making profits and technology. But overall the idea of decentralization comes across pretty well, even if it leaves you feeling unsatisfied in terms of its practical use in the real world. How does one translate the idea into a reality? That’s not really the purpose of this book. It sort of peters out towards the end as it more or less tries to explain how to create hybrid organizations out of classic corporate models (BARF!!!). I really enjoyed the parts about the Apache and the ALF, and I recommend checking it out for those parts alone!
The original Ishmael by Daniel Quinn contained a vague chapter on resistance, but the publishing company would not allow it, instead they made him focus solely on “changing minds”. Here is what Ishmael really thought about this!
The Molalla High School Green Team (environmental club) is throwing their yearly, Earth day music festival and they’ve invited me to come and teach some rewilding skillz throughout the event. It’s going to be awesome. Plus, it’s a fundraiser for their club. And it only costs $2! Come support the Molalla High School Green Team and see the beauty of the Molalla River.
Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 9:15pm
Location: Clark Park, Molalla OR (http://tinyurl.com/ycxgan9)
Cost: $2
Music Line-up:
Methods of Silence (12:00-12:15)
My Robotic Mother (12:35-1:00)
Arion B / Peter Horace(1:15-1:30)
The Routine (1:50-2:20)
Diezel P (2:40-3:10)
The Hugs (3:30-4:00)
Nathan Vieira (4:20-4:50)
Boy Eats Drum Machine (5:10-5:55)
Youthbitch (6:15-6:45)
A Blinding Silence (7:05-7:35)
Midnight Callers (7:55-8:25)
Kendálin (8:45-9:15)
I don’t usually share some of my more personal stuff here, but what the hell. I’m pretty excited about the banjo, so why not throw this up here to see how I improve over time? This is a tune I learned a month or so ago from my banjo buddy. It’s called Sandy River Belle. If you know the lyrics, please post them!
The mentality of colonization runs deep in our culture, particularly deep in those who benefit the most from the colonization. While I like to think of myself as a non-racist, I still have the mindset of the colonizer that prevents me from seeing my own racism and prejudice. For a while now I’ve grappled with this. I think one of the first steps in de-colonizing my mind involved recognizing that I live on stolen land. This scared the hell out of me. Continue reading ‘Colonization Vs. Rewilding’
Head up to the Washington Park archery range today for rewild camp. Bring bows, arrows, knives and some food to throw on the grill! Noon-5pm 2010/08/22
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