The major problems in the world are the result of
the difference between how nature works and the
way people think. Gregory Bateson
2016 Woodlanders Gathering
at Warwick Center Campgrounds, Warwick, NY convened with MILKWEED
35 people are coming
featuring Adam Hamer's on-site,
Community Kitchen over a wood fire
Friday, August 26, 9 am through
Sunday, August 28, ending at noon
Swap Area of Materials, Books, Tools you bring
BIG MAKERS SPACE of Nature-Based
Making/Meditations for Exploring Self, Community, Nature
Lightly Guided Encounters with chance, coincidence, accident and Unconscious Intelligence through fire
water, earth, air; talking, eating together, finding and
making things. MORE
AREAS to EXPLORE:
DIVINATION Try Scrying and Kapnomancy
DERIVE Try Wandering, Noting What’s Here? Now?
Share with others; Select one thing to put on a block
Teri Mack guides a Walking Meditation
INTUITIVE CARVING: Stones, Bones and Bark
THE MATRIX Community Mural and Tree Loom
Look at Laurie Seeman's recent one:
LOOSE PARTS mache, hardwood flooring, CD cases
MARKING Collage on Cards, Caps, Accordion Books, Masks with flowers, berries, dirt, charcoal, inks, flame,
stone pigments, thumbprints, rust,
home-made brushes
JOINING Assemblage with natural and found
materials using barks, yarn, wire, string, thread, floss
MAKING Shelves, Boats, Fae with knife, hammer,
drill, rasp, clippers, sandpaper. Lots of wood available...
WHO'S BEEN DOING WHAT? 2016 update
Inspirations?
"My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times…
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach." Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the
wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." Rachel Carson 1954
