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yesterday i gave Water.   it takes about 2 hours.  All the while,  i tried to FEEL the Forest of the Hill.   When that was done,  i just went to the place of the small metal house and the Morning Tree.  Same there.  Then,  over into the old Doe Goat Forest.  Same.  The Diorama of the moment….What is it?      I thought about how the people came,  and within this Forest created spaces and filled those spaces with themselves and their doings.  The Forest said ok and just watched.   What if it were all abandoned because it was too hard?

a lot of the Plant Beings of the Wall Garden and the B Garden couldn't make it….first those days of no water when we were not allowed through and all the while the smoke and ash.   But in the midst is the Malabar Spinach.  

This morning there is a post on Treetop Permaculture….Matthew Trumm's FaceBook page.  See if you can go there.  He talks about rebuilding at Berry Creek,  the "Paradise of 2020",  he has a Place there.  He talks about building in a Fire Ecology.  He addresses things about code and permits for the kind of building that is sensitive to that Fire Ecology….homes made of earthen plaster, rammed earth, cobb, strawbale, hempcrete, aircrete, chip crete or a combination.   I wanted Jenny and Alyssia to find a Place to Live.  Live a life of their own creation.  They found the Hill.   and now,  there are complications.  Big beyond anyone's control.   But i look at the images Matthew shares.  I sit now staring at them today.  No te rindas i say.  No te rindas.  

Everything is Circle.  Years ago in New Mex i asked some friends to build Jenny a rammed earth press.  for making building bricks.  They did  and Alyssia has dragged it with her through all the multiple moves.  It weighs at least 200 lbs.  Right now it's sitting somewhere in Jenny's apartment's backyard in Chico.

 

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20 responses to “redux”

  1. dee Avatar

    M. Trumm: “We need to recognize that government agencies are no longer a viable source of authority when it comes to our homes, land, and livlihoods. It is clear they are so out of touch with realities of average every day folks.
    “We need to stop submitting to these dinosaurs, their ridiculous codes, and treating us like babies. We have belittled our properties and homes to impersonal investments to flip one day. This has completely ruined our relationship to place. we should hold deeper values than money for places we call home..like safety, and clean and cheap non toxic micro locally sourced materials.. that, for instance don’t burn and if they do, they don’t leave a pile of toxic materials. The goal should be to lower overall property values to a stable level not increase them. Less land tax and if we keep them in the family then the only value should be what your family places on that land.. and guess what, if they are safe, then we don’t need expensive insurance either.
    The time to change and resist is now.”
    Some of the structures look like hobbit houses!

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    this made me think of the Taos earthships
    and redux is such a great word

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    when I was in New Orleans I bought a plastic heart from the House of Blues that said “Help Ever, Hurt Never”, I try to do that with the people and their gardens that I look after.

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  4. jude Avatar

    No te Rindas…

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  6. Acey Avatar

    I have a t-shirt from the original house of blues in Harvard Square with that slogan on it. Wore it to tatters and then turned the slogan into part of an altar cloth. Thanks for reminding me! I’m bringing it so the seasonal shift and moving forward!!!!!!

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  7. Acey Avatar

    i also really like venceremos …

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  8. jamie Avatar
    jamie

    No te rindas!!! So glad to hear strength and agreement from the people you surround yourself with in the Butte County. You personally need a way to live your life that is safe, and meaningful, and connected, and healthy as Matthew Trumm most wonderfully states so well. So beautifully well. I’m following him on facebook as well as his videos on you-tube. So many great ideas. Venceremos is also great. You NEED this!

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  9. Deb G Avatar

    Dee this is exactly right, exactly. And I really want a hobbit house, have at least three books about building with cob/strawbale and so forth. 🙂

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  10. Deb G Avatar

    Maybe a t-shirt that says “Be like the Malabar Spinach.” It would sure get a lot of questions. 🙂

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    this is what we NEED for the Hill, what hopefully can
    rise from all the devastation of the Fires

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    i will say as a promise to the Hill today

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    he was the one i had come to the Hill that first Rain
    Season i came. He walked with us and then gave us
    a drawing of his impressions.
    His Garden here in town is extraordinary.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…and we NEED a lot of Questions!!!!

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  15. Hazel Avatar

    Years ago, we built a cobb house on the playground. Children, teachers, parents all together. Each of us brought a small token to put into the walls- a stone, lego, etc. I put a sewing pin in. How great it was.
    Good morning, Grace.

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  16. Nancy Avatar

    Yes, I’ve watched so many videos on how they are built…

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar

    i hope i might live to see this happen

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