Short Documentary

I took a permaculture design course at Esalen last year.  Loved it.

Most of our population has no idea what permaculture means-- even the Blogger spell check cannot identify the word.

I cannot explain it as well as this 48 minute film by an English gal who puts it all into current context.

The film is not exactly Avatar in effects or pacing-- the word permaculture is not even used until 30 minutes in.  But Rebecca does a good job sharing her journey in perspective from film maker to bewildered farm heiress to farmer of the future.

The film introduces concepts of food forests, ordered chaos and using protracted and thoughtful observation (PATO) to design less labor and fuel intensive systems that can yield more produce than conventional farming.

Watch this short film and see --remember if you are a permie-- the joy of discovering the crazy abundance that working with nature yields.  While people critical of the environmental and energy state of the world can paint a pretty bleak picture permaculturists in contrast show another way that leaves people not just hopeful but excited.

Check it out and share it.




 ( Credit: I got the link form Mike Ruppert's Facebook page.)


Some other Permaculture info links:

http://permacultureprinciples.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/perma.html


The Film http://www.viddler.com/explore/PermaScience/videos/4/

Santa knows best after all these years.

Weeks after Christmas I am still stoked about about a toy Santa gave me.
In fact I don't remember having been this excited about a gift since I got the Beatle's Red Album-- a 2 record compilation that was actually red!
That was the 5th grade and Michael Jackson had not yet released Off the Wall, and I had not yet heard of the Police, the Clash, Prince, U2 or any of the other bands I would play too loudly in my room ad nauseum.  I suppose a Beatle's record was the perfect gift a parent could give at that age... it kept me out of the way and they knew where I was and the music was pleasant.  This year's gift was also perfect.

This year it was a French Chess set with legs and drawers that hold the heavy wooden pieces.  I can only describe it as SEXY.

Each move feels so decisive as the hardwood knight clip-clops down or the deeply carved rook or bishop slides with gravitas across the wooden veneer.

It sits just over a foot high-- perfect view when played from the floor with a pillow, preferred beverage and tasty morsels within reach.  Family time is good time.

I've played some amazing white knuckled games cleaning house versus my Dad and pal Chris.  (To be fair Chris wooped my hyde the first game and there was a stalemate with Dad).

I so prefer the classic quiet games to the frenetic and strobed computer games available now.  Chess on the floor by the fire having selected sublime background music, pausing for conversation and stories if not strategy is so nice.  In contrast the action film Avatar which I enjoyed despite a 3D induced headache has a matching video game.  I can only imagine the migrainic and seizure inducing effects of the technicolor gun battles in flight and through forrest.  Chess can't be beat in my book.

Except by Backgammon and as it turns out the chess board flips over to reveal my other favorite classic game.  Looking forward to dominating over good music, conversation and food when friends come over to play.

What a good boy I must have been.

I went back tonight just to be sure it was real...

I went back tonight just to be sure it was real...

Walking on the beach these last evenings.  A few circuits and into the darkness of my favorite stretch of coastline.


I saw a glimmer of light at my heel.  Then again.  The glint of the moon on my ocean kissed boots?
Nope.  The moon was not up yet.


Every step a glint or two.  Now sometimes in front or adjacent my feet.  
"Now this is interesting" I thought.


A Micheal Jackson moment?  The beach lighting up with my feet as if I was in a nature lovers version of the 1980's "Billie Jean" video.


A quick moon walk and yes the sand was lighting up under my feet.


Bioluminescence baby.  "Sorry dudes!"  I kept walking.


Imagine walking on crystal sands under the stars.  Now reach up, grab some sky and flip up so that you are walking upside-down watching your feet obscure the heavens.  As you walk the stars around each foot begin to scintilate a bright green blue a few inches (light years?) surrounding your foot as you put your weight on it.  Then they go back to normal.
That's what it looked like.  


You can come down now.


So there is some kind of dinoflagellate bloom of my little pyrrophytic friends going on in the sand at my favorite beach.
Is there an up-welling of cold Monterey trench waters chock full of nutrients? Perhaps in Winter due to global warming?
Are the bioluminescent dinos here to meet and procreate?


Tomorrow night I will bring my fire poi and burn green (ETOH and MgSO4)  to signal a welcome from the two legeds and give a thanks for the last few nights display.


I might hum along to the old Michael Jackson song while moon-walking and  spinning fire.




P.S. Let me know if you want to check it out with me.

Let's Get it Started...Let's Get it Started.. with Guy's definition.

Blogger n. Someone with nothing to say writing for people with nothing to do.

--Guy Kawasaki

Guy is a big shot entrepreneur technorati and of course he does not believe his own quote.

Here's his blog.

In his hardcore start up guide Reality Check he writes that --aside from business applications-- blogging is creative expression that builds community.

And that is my intention for JunaiEricFinckeBlogs.

I plan to have fun expressing ideas that create community.

More specifically: to delve deep into the human experience, our spiritual nature, our economical and ecological struggles to survive as a species and our need for creativity in both problem solving and just the joy of wacky art projects.

I hope friends from my dance community, Esalen community, pharmacy and health communities, plus my radical and mellow political acquaintances, Men's work, healers, hard core entrepreneurs and nature worshippers all meet me here.

IT WILL BE FUN.

Blog Topics to include:

Health and Wellness

Health Care- the machine

Politics and Economics

Food

Love

Music and Art

Ecology/Survival

Spiritual Longing

The Human Experience and

Sex

Check in often.

This Blog is up and runnin' runnin' and runnin' ruinnin'...