8.23.2017

8.21.2017

Eclipse hide and seek

Can you find the 'toenail clippings' in the clouds! Shadows and binoculars too.

8.20.2017

7-Day Symbiosis Gathering

Traffic has been jammed for days people going to the Eclipse festival in Prineville, OR.  Where is our festival Lanny?

https://www.everfest.com/e/global-eclipse-gathering-prineville-or 

All this work is geared toward creating something powerful and new. ..collaborative experiences and zones that conjure up new worlds. Naturally, there will be celestial components, including a sun goddess art installation, a sun temple, and elemental altars tailored to this year’s journey from light to dark to light again. Some of the eight stages have names like the Eclipse Stage, Sun Stage, Moon Stage, Sky Stage, etc.
There will be a full permaculture design course, complete with herbal arts education and an apothecary. It’s part of the elemental alchemy series, which has four courses centered around yoga, visual art, herbal art, and ritual performances. 

What Do America's White Nationalists Want?


In the National Review, Kevin Williamson considers the aims of Charlottesville's "angry white boys":

"The fact that they get together to play dress-up — to engage in a large and sometimes murderous game of cowboys and Indians — may give us our answer. They want to be someone other than who they are. That's the great irony of identity politics: They seek identity in the tribe because they are failed individuals. They are a chain composed exclusively of weak links.

"What they are engaged in isn't politics, but theater: play-acting in the hopes of achieving catharsis. Their online personas — knights, Vikings, reincarnations of Charles Martel — will be familiar enough to anybody with a Dungeons and Dragons nerd in his life. But sometimes, role-playing around a card table isn't enough: Sometimes, you need a stage and an audience. In the theater, actors and audience both can forget ourselves for an hour or two. Under the soft glow of the tiki torches, these angry white boys can be something else — for a night."

"In the morning, they wake up with the same faces. And there is something in the faces," Williamson writes. "James Alex Fields Jr. has more than a little whiff of Dylann Roof about him, and we know what Dylann Roof wanted: to murder black people. Sometimes, it is worth taking angry white boys at their word."