2014 Intentions
In my life -- I hope to continue learning and growing in many arenas: healer, designer, gardener, artist, writer, chef, surfer, photographer, seed saver, and permaculturalist. The two most significant Growing Edges for me in 2014 are my path as permaculturalist/designer and accepting my place as a healer.
I see an aspect of my journey as being part of the synthesis of the global holistic wisdom regarding Health: personal practices, diet and nutrition, herbalism, movement practices, community, flower essences, meditation, stress, gardening & good relationship with the earth and all other sentient beings. As a permaculturalist, I see that the areas I am most drawn to and hope to specialize within this year are seeds, soil, and herbalism. As a chef, I hope to expand my palate through cordials and chocolates and herbs. I am passionate about herbs and spices this year and hope to grow and use many of these highly vibrant foods I believe food is one of the greatest pleasures in life and our first medicine. As an artist, this year, I want to enhance my ability to make movies and consider design layout for websites, keynotes and posters and such.
Concrete Next Steps
• Take Herbalism Symposium with my East West Herbology school
• Attend Seed School with Bill McDormand
• Attend Paul Stamets mushroom level 1 workshop
• Use skillflex hours to gain digital literacy and work on mini-OP project digital literacy and valuable websites to use (explore Diigo and word)
• Use SFA to enhance my MTMP skills.
• Find a Chi gung/Feng Shui workshop
• Create time for a meditation retreat
• Study with Mantak Chia
• Art of Mentoring program (maybe in a couple of years)
• Attend School of Spagyric & Alchemical Arts (maybe in a couple of years)
• Assist Jim with Reiki 1 trainings. Do my Reiki Level 3 — Reiki Master training,
• Assist Jean with NVC workshops at Esalen or Santa Cruz
• Take Reevaluation Counseling Course
• Connect with GaiaU Gather In
• Play with Chocolate
• Play with infusing into alcohol for tincture and cordials
• Read on herbalism
• Watch Videos on chocolate
• Create Website
Concrete Steps
BROAD STROKES
SOUL
- HAPPINESS
- Acceptance
- Compassion
- Joyful and loving relationship with partner -- kids and a homestead.
- Good father -- patience, listening design easeful life for family
ARTISTIC
Novel, Cookbook, Photography, Movies, Landscape Design, Hortitorture
Craftsman -- Glass work, Artistic Functional Design
PHYSICAL
- Chi Gong
- Yoga
- Rehabilitate shoulder
- Surfing
- Gardening
SPIRITUAL
- Connect with spirit through nature, dance and song.
- Engage in ceremony with community and solo in nature.
- Gardening
- Chakra meditation practice
MENTAL
How people work -- Comprehension of Causality in humanity, Personal Health
How the world works -- Tracking the old ways and being a wisdom keeper for seeds and soil and continuing humanity, land stewardship, digital literacy
Bucket List
TO DO LIST
My “To Do List” includes Books to Read, Movies to Watch, Movies to Make, and Articles to Write. As a large portion of the books, movies and articles pertain to my OP’s, I have color coded the list as follows:
Green - OP 2: Health & Healing,
Red - OP 3 : Land Stewardship,
Orange - OP 4 : Chocolates and Cordials
BOOKS TO READ
HEALTH
Tierra -- Planetary Herbology
Lawless -- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils
Herbal Medicine — Dr. Sharol Tilgner
The Root of Chinese Chi Gong
Seven Minutes of Magic
LAND STEWARDSHIP
Bubel -- The Seed Starters Handbook
Stamets -- Mycellium Running
Wong -- Feng Shui: The Ancient Wisdom of Harmonious Living for Modern Times
Clear your Clutter with Feng Shui
CHOCOLATES & CORDIALS
Making Artisan Chocolates — Andrew Garrison Shotts OP 2
Naked Chocolate OP 2
Sacred and Healing Herbal Beers Stephen Buhner
GENERAL
McRaney — You are Now Less Dumb — Causality
Murphy -- By Nature's Design — Patterns
Mollison -- Permaculture: A Designer's Manual
MOVIES TO WATCH
HEALTH
Anatomy Trains -
How to heal your hands
Thrive
Enlighten Up
Think Global; Eat Local
LAND STEWARDSHIP
A Farm for the Future
Agroforestry
PolyFace Farm
Dirt
Geoff Lawton -- Soils
Know your Mushrooms
The Private Life of Plants
Back Yard Hive
Laundry to Landscape
GENERAL
Permaculture Design with Geoff Lawton
The 11th Hour
Rivers & Tides -- Patterns
Aquaponics made Easy
MOVIES TO MAKE
HEALTH
Pate making
Kale Salad making
Baby massage
Chakra Balancing session
Massage Footage
LAND STEWARDSHIP
Rose Pruning
Fruit Tree Pruning
Rose Cuttings
Plumbago Cuttings
Seed Starting
Seed Saving
Grafting Citrus/Avos
ARTICLES TO WRITE
HEALTH
Life & Death – Sprouting and Fermenting Nutrition -- Cleansing
How to Receive a Massage
Living Foods
Zone 0 -- Personal Ecology
Archetypes :Enneagram, Five Elements, Five Phases, Doshas, Zodiac, Jungian, Tarot, Meyers Briggs or PATTERNS
Non violent communication
Stress and Disease
LAND STEWARDSHIP
The Food of the Bees -- honey and all pollinated food
Top bar hive managements
Plant Propagation
Plant Sexuality
Feng Shui and Landscape Design
Pruning
CHOCOLATE & CORDIALS
The Miracle of Chocolate
CAUSALITY
Magic & Mystery
Conspiracy Theory
Double Blind & Placebo
PATTERNS
Sacred Geometry & Flower of Life
Patterns: The Tau of Phi
The Mysteries of the Moon: Witnessing Cycles
SCALE
Timeline of Humanity
7 Mass Extinctions & the Cambrian Explosion — Things come in Clusters
GENERAL
Alternative Economics -- Natural Capitalism (Paul Hawken article/ David Holmgren Principle 2 Catch & Store Energy)
Peak oil
The Hamlet Dilemma
Group Facilitation and Consensus
King Minos