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laurie

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About Me

i'm a little bit feral. i think these days i'm more joyful than anything. i'm a dirt worshipping punk cowgrrl. try that one on for size. i like to paint and play the piano. i have a truck for hauling cow poo to my fields, i ride a fuji road bike. i write and post stuff on diybloggrrl.blogspot and at diyartgrrl.blogspot"This is a lonesome society that's been fragmented by the factory system. People don't live in communities anymore. But they should: Communities are very comforting to human beings. I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream. That's mine, and don't tell me I'm wrong: Human beings will be happier not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia."--- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr."Purity is the opposite of integrity - the cruelest thing you can do to a person is make her ashamed of her own complexity. The stories of our lives have no morals. Any single conclusion drawn would be false; the episodes, taken together, are untranslatable, incomparable. If we are to conclude at all, we can only conclude against conclusions." -an excerpt from Fighting For Our Lives
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My Interests

hiking, cycling, eco-feminism, ecology, DIY, sustainability, art, music, piano, anti-civ, feral, dirt worshiping, permaculture

I'd like to meet:

ferals. people who are dirt and tree worshipers. sober people. people interested in permaculture. rednecked ecovillagers. ewoks. a drummer. an old style country/blues/folk guitarist. folks who like to ride bikes.

Music:

punk, folk... blues.

Movies:

don't much watch 'em.

Television:

sucks.

Books:

are good. I like to read them. story of B by Daniel Quinn, Endgame by Derick Jensen. Ursula Le Guin. Alan Weisman, The World Without Us. In Dubious Battle, by John Steinbeck. Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac. Jeanette Winterson.

Heroes:

are strange concepts.

My Blog

Bike Riding

Well... It's been about 6 months since I really got to ride. Longer than that... The last few months in Penghu I didn't get to ride because of the hurricane force winds. Then in Belize we were in the ...
Posted by laurie on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:43:00 PST

Machetera Takes On the Fallen Elm

well, it seems the elm trees are sick. Their leaves are turning brown, curling, spotting. Trunks weakening. We had a mid-sized thunderstorm last week and one right next to the house came down in the y...
Posted by laurie on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:16:00 PST

radish pickles, etc.

well, the elm trees are sick, and about a week ago we had a mid-level thunderstorm that took off the top of a big one and dropped it neatly in our yard about an inch from the house. we decided to make...
Posted by laurie on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:46:00 PST

ubuntu (linux for human beings)

i like it...well, i have a techeadache, but i always do when dealing with computers in any capacity. so, after two days of wrangling with the local cable monopoly, we managed to get the dudes out to i...
Posted by laurie on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:41:00 PST

permaculture design

well, as it stands, civilization, no matter how well designed, will not save us... but the permaculture design course is an outstanding experience and for me, a seriously wonderful step in the right ...
Posted by laurie on Sun, 18 May 2008 01:14:00 PST

overdrawn

primitive at heart i findthis world i have to live in too complexbewildered by the maze ofpetty rituals thedetails of banks, insurance, feescoalesce intoprison walls around which i can notnavigategive...
Posted by laurie on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:02:00 PST

headed out

i'm about to get on the bus to new mexico. see ya'll in about 4 weeks.
Posted by laurie on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:26:00 PST

Snapping Turtle

One time that well-known brave, Snapping Turtle, became angry. All the people wondered why he acted so strangely. "Snapping Turtle is very cranky," said the othe...
Posted by laurie on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:51:00 PST

late night hair pic


Posted by laurie on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:53:00 PST

2 inches or so; it’s a little overwhelming

well, my hair's been getting real long. it was past my shoulders, but the under side was about 2 inches longer than the top, so i was getting a bit of a white trash, used-to-be-feathered, flip thing g...
Posted by laurie on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:18:00 PST