Dear Diary,
Well, looks like the History Channel dropped my interview for their apocalypse show… I knew I shouldn’t have binged on all those frosted Circus Animal, animal crackers! Oh well. I keep getting bites from TV people, but no catches yet. I just don’t understand. When will I get my big break? Geez. I feel like such a whiny douchebag. Well, at least some nice folks put a few bucks in my tip jar. Thanks to Carrie and John.
Anywho. I’ve read a lot of Tending the Wild and it continues to change my perspective about hunter-gatherers. One example; many tribes only hunted geese when molting. They only hunted rabbits when the rabbits had the most fat. This kind of knowledge shows exactly the differences between survival skills and indigenous living. Survival forgoes a deep relationship and understanding with nature in the face of immediacy. More on that later!
The next two weeks I will spend as an instructor at A-Team Camp, a camp for teens that teaches wilderness medicine, survival skills, welding, military tactics through paintball games, among other things. So, I’ll have a two week hiatus from writing here. I really look forward to the week. This guy Brian came up from San Fran and he seems to have a lot of experience in the more crafty side of rewilding so I hope I can learn a few tricks from him. The Paintball games look like most exciting part to me; we’ve rented the largest outdoor paintball field in Oregon. I can’t wait!
Ooh, we also with slaughter and butcher 2 goats at the camp. A process I have wanted to experiment with for a while. I want to use the whole animal and will stress the importance of that.
Penny Scout and I celebrated our one year anniversery! This marks the longest amount of time I have ever gone steady with a girl. To celebrate we had dinner at a nice restaurant and went to see the new Adam Sandler flick “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan.” I admit I laughed more than I thought I would. I really like Penny Scout. I mean, I like-like her
Okay Diary, I think I need to go work on some other stuff now. I’ll come back as soon as I can!
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6 responses to “W61,62,63: Reading, Writing and Rewilding”
Congrates.
Awe yes, utilizing all utilizableness; ago I experienced a another eating a baked head with brain removed aside for a formula for leather, I think. I saw eyes and eye sockets, tongue, gums, cheeks, and all ate with an enjoying smile that gave me a hunger for head ever since. 🙂 And just a few days ago I found an amazy excavation of fish bones…I love fish bones (and fish too)….anyway, I utilized two fish bones one to scrap my hate pipes bizzknol and another for a tooth pick.
Thanks, scout!
awww, i like-like you too, babe
Just stumbled upon your blog, you ever see this little piece:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004123.html
Also, food for thought: I sympathize with your philosophy. Rewilding sounds great in theory, but so does communism.
Thor Heyerdahl and his wife tried to go “back to nature” in the south pacific. He discovered people living there, sure, but they were also living with chronic ringworm infestations, disease, infant mortality rate 10X higher than sub-saharan africa, and a general state of misery.
He said, after his experiment, that “there simply is no nature to go back to.”
If as eminently qualified a guy as Heyerdahl couldn’t go “back to nature”, I’m not optimistic about my chances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl
Paul,
Please read more about rewilding before posting here.
Isn’t just about the entire South Pacific post-contact anyway? Why do these jokers have to drag out these extreme examples that don’t really prove their point in the first place?