Driving from Arusha to Mnenia brought back memories from just over a year ago: then I was sitting in the passenger seat of Seppo’s aging Land Rover with growing amazement at the changing landscape while the vehicle negotiated the endless bumpy road-construction stretch between Arusha and Babati.(see Kijiji means village) I remembered the beauty of [...]
I have dreamt of going to Morocco ever since I was a teenager in Germany, when it was still one of the destinations on the Interail train-pass. Marrakech was one of those names for me that carry mystery and calling. What better time to go than during this trip on Sabbatical. Even today, where [...]
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The best blog is the one I’m actually going to write- so here are some notes after walking from Burgos to Santiago between September 25 and October 15, 2011 1. Community: I think in my mind I expected a “pilgrimage” to be a fairly lonely experience with little contact to anybody. That was corrected on [...]
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When I first came to O.U.R. I was just establishing myself as a natural builder. I was living in Courtenay and worked a lot with Cobworks on Mayne Island during the summer. OUR was in its first years of establishing vision and zoning and every time I was there I saw a group of [...]
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Every once in a while the universe sends me a gift. I don’t always recognize it immediately and it doesn’t ever look the same: It may be something stopping things from the way I expect them to go and giving a little space in time to slow down or take a walk. It may [...]
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