I am a visionary and an artist. I am a truth seeker who is determined to hold strong to my values and my integrity. I am creating a business which is shared with other people who are from different backgrounds, different ages, and who think and work differently, but don't we all? I am learning how to live my work defined by the sun, water, and micro-organisms which surround us and invade us. I am eating my food both from my hand and from nature's winds, I feast of wild food and share the power and medicine of eating those creatures which raise themselves. Each day I realize I have less and less control and even less understanding of the complexity around me, yet I am charting a trail, mapping out a route that will take me to a place where I can offer my talents and passions with the world, and hopefully inspire and learn with a few people along the way.
I am working towards growing food as medicine, and painting art as a means of capturing people's stories, both of these things are products in which the time, energy and resource input could never be compensated by money. Yet still I desire with all my being to do this with my life, and hope I will find food, shelter, and beauty along the way, and most importantly people to share those things with, at each step. I am looking for examples that have flourished. I believe it is impossible to do these things alone. Yet so many people with these ideas are busy working and driving and making choices which don't seem quite comfortable, and so I search for the balance, and I search for the collaboration.
I find total peace and tranquility with my surroundings, yet when I make an effort to enter, to step into the woods, others hearts, my own darkness, I scare up all the birds and creatures and fears that lurk beneath the surface. I am living on a farm raising animals and vegetables and wanting to make sure all the life is respected and honored here, also knowing that giving life to some, takes it away from others.
I am taking time to hear the stories of other beings, people and plant and animal, when many haven't taken the time to think or reflect on themselves, and think that knowing another is remembering a name. There is never enough time, never enough money to live fully. There are always choices, always the day to day and the larger scale questions, always the mistakes. Hopefully an open dialogue will help speed up the learning process, when there is little time before more life is destroyed.
I am wanting to initiate a conversation amongst people who want to share their adventures and successes with building community in its many forms, adding more back to the land than is taken, and of living a life that is true to one's passions and purpose as it continually evolves and grows. I would like to share my own experiences of listening to the land, learning from the land, living with people who I am not related to and making really hard decisions about life and death and money and space and time.
I don't use my computer often so I will let people know that I will write only when fully moved by the energy and excitement which makes me want to share my ideas with the world and m
akes deep conversation contagious. 
