Monday, April 9, 2007

This one is shorter, I'm so sorry about before

Everyone has been walking around since we got back from Erraid saying things like "I have sooo much love for all of the people here." We are all giddy from a week of lying (can someone teach me when to say lying and when to say laying?) together in the sun and traipsing around on a haunted island, and we're all in love with each other.

Also since we've gotten back a lot of us have noticed that we are eating REALLY fast when we eat in the CC. Even faster than before, which was too fast. So Sarah and I are changing our Art of Fascination project (the one where we share talents or skills or special knowledge with one another) from learning guitar, which I will try and do anyway, to learning how to eat slowly from Tim, who eats slower than anyone I know. We're going to start spending our mealtimes learning how to savor our food. There is talk of incorporating slow food and slow eating into our end of the semester presentation too.

I've started getting more into my assignments and the readings and the writing. Yesterday I finally figured out what I'm going to do for my applied sustainability project, which had been looming over my head. I'm going to integrate sustainable education, permaculture, and community work to develop a weekend/day workshop that can be used at UUI (the church I grew up in). And possibly modified to be used at other churches? Though I am also pulled to just working with UUI specifically. I feel like I can really integrate permaculture principles with UU principles, which is exciting, and I have the model of the green sanctuary to work with. I'm still playing with the whole idea, and am also considering just planning a YRUU conference or a workshop that can be brought to different conferences and meetings. Sooo does anyone have a free copy of the green sanctuary manual that they can send to me?

I stayed up way too late last night and found a bunch of farmer training/certification programs in the midwest, and my excitement for what I am doing at the end of this summer has grown exponentially.

1 comment:

Ashley said...

Nora, your book about Erraid was beautiful. Nateface doesn't know what he's talking about.
Also, I looked at your pictures. Good grief, what is up with that place!? Even the toilets are beautiful. I'm jealous, jealous.
Lots of love! Keep writing.
Ashley