Getting Ready
for The Gathering or The Workshop
Ways to See Anew
We need, we feed on a mix of rountine and change; the predictable and the surprise; It's a "paradigm shift", maybe a "wake-up call"... that we need to refresh and expand. A sickness, accident, a death of a loved one can start this. So can alertness to coincidence. There are other ways, too
Look at the Makers and Links in the left column
Look at Dan's Books and through his website
Look at work by Andy Goldsworthy, Chris Drury, Nils Udo, Patrick Dougherty
SUGGESTIONS from other WOODLANDERS
Grace Woodard: http://proteusgowanus.com/main/
Matthew Fallon: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MindBodySoul-NY Join it!
READ POETRY
Natural Responsibilities
You get the kind of world you think it is.
Change your mind.Change the world. Charles Potts
Kenneth Koch's One Train Might Hide Another
Larraine Herring's How to Bury Your Father
any poem by Mary Oliver
WRITE POETRY
LOOK FOR SHORT TALES YOU CAN RE-TELL OTHERS
The Zebra Storyteller Spencer Holst
BRING STUFF TO SWAP or SELL
BRING SOME TOOLS
a drill, a knife, gloves, face protection, some old clothes to modify
VISIT ANEW PLACE while you're here
Hessian Lake and Perkins Tower at Bear Mt State Park, NY
Innisfree Garden, Millbrook, NY
Storm King Art Center, Stormville, NY
Those two Horned Owls
A Lenape Indian Rock Shelter
JOIN ANEW GROUP
LEARN ANEW
Learn with Daniel Mack, Warwick, NY
The Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY