Woodlander Gatherings
as proto casual alchemy
Seventeen years of Actions/Experiments
to explore "Paleo-Spirituality" Community-building through fire, water, earth, air; talking, eating together, finding, making, sharing things
BASIC SET UP
at a Camp Site for three days
- Materials/Tools/Work/ Demo Areas
- Everlasting Play, Healing and What Develops
- Lots of Time for Show and Tell and Sharing Skills
- Big Swap of Materials, Books, Tools
- Fire Pit and On-site Community Kitchen by Adam Hamer
- Off-Site Activities: Studio, exhibits, Nature visits
- Stick Man Always Returns and Burns
COMMENTS/PHILOSOPHY
What We Are "Monkey Mind"
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the
wonders and realitiesof the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."1954 Rachel Carson
"My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times…
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach." Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. Gregory Bateson
Images by Jim Caufield Shekina Rae Misc Images
