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Like flower up from the soil it sprouts
Like apple out from the branch it shouts
Is the Folk-song for man and woman
But people know when it will perish

So, let the chord out from the heart gleam!
And let us sing and let us dream!
Here is so much that drag us down!
The black dreams and the loss of town.

But come with tunes from the native birthplace
And let us sing in an ancient pace
And let us sing without a book
That sheet-music-song thinks it's so wise!

FOR HELP BUILDING REWILDING HAVENS -

At any given moment, in any part of the world, there is a deep wholeness that exists there. This is the structure of the whole: the largest and deepest physical configuration that is present there. It can be felt and seen.

The most fundamental way to treat the land - whether it is an open field, an existing village, or a street in town - is to respect what is there, protect it, continue it, and make it better. Heal it. Make it more whole. The great towns and villages have always been built this way, and it is this process which gave them beauty. The deep seeds of structure run through the place in its geometry, its colors, its smells and its sounds. It takes skill to preserve and extend these. It requires loving attention to what is there...

The unfoldings on this website guide you in the process of envisioning, diagnosing, planning and building on your physical site, always with the purpose of extending wholeness -- the basis of a living neighborhood.

http://www.livingneighborhoods.org
(Christopher Alexander and crew, authors of the books A Pattern Language, the Timeless Way of Building, and the Nature of Order)

The North American Afterculture by Michael Green
http://art.afterculture.org/

Hand made, gourd banjos!

Echoes in Time

Sgëno, Ronja!

I think that deserves its own thread! We started this one just to give people "the right idea" about rewilding.

A Rewilding Renaissance

My attempt to describe what I mean by "Rewilding Renaissance."

Here's two poems from me, Flow and The Laughing Storm. They came to me when I was listening to powerful music - Datura by Tori Amos and Storm by Björk. Both poems are a celebration of this world and the beauty and might of all its spirits/gods. They also tell about how to rewild - how to stop battling against the sacred flow and to let ourselves be carried, hurt and healed by it, to be carried in the arms of all the other spirits who together are a power much stronger than us, to rest in our nature (in two meanings), in humanity, in innocence.



FLOW


To rewild is to

let your dam break

the river wants to flow, the woods want to spread through the concrete, you want to come out of the small place inside yourself where you have snuck to feel safe

The whole world is singing, the whole world is flowing

through you

the world is a river and you are a current, a swirl inside a bigger swirl inside a bigger swirl
to not let go, to not let the current take you, is to hold back, to lie - you can never control anything, and you can never avoid pain

and you will die, after which you will live - after all, it's just changing shape

relax and fall

die and scatter

you will feel pain. but even through pain, you will always be loved
by every being who is not afraid to
be river

because flow is life is celebration
is love
for me, you, us, them
I

a laughing child spirit is swirling in the flow




THE LAUGHING STORM


I have learned to love storms
what greater passion? the tearing gusts, the rage of the wind
the rain falling on you sharp and heavy, the waves of the sea
crashing high to the rocks

the sky roaring and blazing white fire

the storm turns around the earth and the water and the sky
it throws you like a speck of dust
and you will die

but to feel the storm is to feel a pagan god shout and shriek and laugh and dance
her eyes gleaming large and wild
is to feel blood in your veins
is rage is ecstasy

Miles started a blog and I thought this entry was particularly awesome.

Fermenting a Rabbit: http://goingferal.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/fermented-rabbit/

"Flavored with Flame and Stone"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/dining/10slate.html

Slate is a staple of rustic cooking in France and in Andorra, where Mr. Ripert grew up. The traditional method, called pierrade, involves heating a thick slab of slate over an open fire, though now most pierrade cooking is done on a timid tabletop appliance that has all the excitement of a toaster oven. But Mr. Ripert said the slate tiles could be used over an open fire on the grill or in the fireplace to cook almost anything: steak, poultry or fish.

TATAK NG APAT NA ALON TRIBE - Reviving Filipino Tattoo Traditions

Tatak Ng Apat Na Alon is an organization dedicated to reviving the traditional cultures and tattoos of the
Philippine Islands. Tatak Ng Apat Na Alon Translates to Mark of the Four Waves, a reference to the "waves" of
immigrants who came to the Philippines over many millennia. The influence, both good and bad, of each of these
waves has combined to create the islands' culture. Tatak Ng Apat Na Alon intends to resurrect the positive, repair
the negative, and move into the future while keeping their roots firmly planted in the past. "A people without
knowledge of their history and culture are like a tree without roots," says Amang Hanuno'o, Tatak Ng Apat Na Alon
member. Our ancestors are the roots on the tree of life, and all the branches tell their stories. The leaves are our
parents. We should all support each other as we grow and reach towards the skies, but so many of our generation
are like seeds that have not been watered."

Doug Elliot: Sharing the Passion of Nature through Storytelling, on The Art of Storytelling with Children. Casually mentioned throughout this interview: "Wild Man" Steve Brill, Jon Young, Joseph Campbell, tracking, "dirt time," knitting native stories together with European stories and your own experience, all in a conversation about how to recover the stories in the landscape that knit together family and land. All around one of the best hours of audio I've ever listened to.

Inspiring!

Homebrew, Bobo Style

http://thembsterstravels.blogspot.com/2007/01/homebrew-bobo-style.html

Pentatonic Scale,
or the basics of music jamming.

Bark Tanning!



http://goingferal.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/bark-tan-leather-primitive-waterproof-technology/

My book is out!!1!!

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/rewild-or-die/5410577

Hour long video of a man and his inuit wife living and rewilding in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!

edit: Not sure how to embed, but here's a link. Someone feel free to embed if you know how and can edit my post.

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/far-out--2/heimo-s-arctic-refuge-full-length