joined on 02/17/05
last updated 07/21/08
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about me
inspiration doesn't lead to action.
action leads to inspiration.
For most of July I have been leading a group of mushroom minded folks around Ecuador. We started out visiting the mycoremediation project we coordinate and taking a Toxic Tour of the Texaco oil spill in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the biggest oil spill in the world and a breathtaking mess of poison and death. The toxicity scene contrasts sharply and tragically with the royal Amazonian fullness which we were immersed in for 4 days in majestic Cuyabeno flooded forest reserve. After this phase of the...
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At the last minute I was called deep into the jungle by a messenger friend heading out on a canoe the next morning. I quickly found myself wrapped in the forest`s leafy folds and welcomed the teachings of its vines, which reached out and told me plainly, through the guise of a smiling old shaman cloaked in bright feathers, that it was time for us to merge. I had sent out hints to the universe for months, asking for this moment to find me...now I only had to obey.
A stern mother placed me f...
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anyone ever had a laptop stolen?
6 years of poems...dozens of travel reflections...thousands of photos and video clips from 6 years of world adventures....countless little poems...anecdotes about mini-sagas...an extensive and refined collection of the planets sweetest music...colorful stories about life...random ramblings and ventings....lots and lots of documents written for work...
i think i have a new and deeper appreciation for the semi-permanence of paper...physical over electronic...
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2006 Burning Man Virgins,
604 India ॐ,
ALL ABOUT TRAVEL,
All Yoga,
AMBIENT CHILL,
Ayurveda Today,
Bio-regional Animism,
Cambodia,
ChakraTribe,
Cleansing,
CrimethInc.,
DIY - do it yourself,
Earthdance Internationalists,
EarthFirst!,
ecuador querida,
EmpathsAlike.com,
Ethical Consumerism,
Ethnobotany,
Exploration Station,
Fire Hooping,
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El yagé
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At the last minute I was called deep into the jungle by a messenger friend heading out on a canoe the next morning. I quickly found myself wrapped in the forest`s leafy folds and welcomed the teachings of its vines, which reached out and told me p...
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ouch
(blog entry)
anyone ever had a laptop stolen?
6 years of poems...dozens of travel reflections...thousands of photos and video clips from 6 years of world adventures....countless little poems...anecdotes about mini-sagas...an extensive and refined collection...
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cacao harvest
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Sunday was spent harvesting cacao: huge, orange-pink, fiercely bug-proof pods of fruity goodness that sun and air and factories transform into mmmmmm yeah: chocolate.
Harvesting cacao in the amazon (and probably anywhere else) is itchy, sweaty,...
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Crisp and clear
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I flew across the country and there was not a single cloud in America today. When night came, the full moon kept pace with my gaze out of the tiny window.
It was shining so bright that I could see its perfect reflection 35,000 feet below. The w...
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Departure and invitation!
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As of February Brian and I will be living in Ecuador, helping coordinate the Amazon Mycorenewal Project. (see www.cloudforest.org/Solution...ollution)
We are working with an amazing, inspiring, magical team to invite our little b...
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