Yay visitors!

Most of the visitors for Cumbre Yah 2011

These are some of the latest visitors to visit the Bosque Village. Really awesome mix of people from all over Mexico and the world!

Things are pretty different now than when I lived here alone. I still felt a little shy with all these people though.

More pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebosque/sets/72157626422224383/

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I should probably read the book Subpoena Colada sometime.

So many projects…. many on hold… many in critical phases. Important people zooming about. Planning for Seattle.

The Bosque seems to be coming together. Many new plants and trees in the ground. More and more people wanting to come for longer term. Learning to be a hard ass with unaware folks. Many new Photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebosque/collections
Can’t sleep. Reading Masanobu Fukuoka who writes everything I already think. Re-assuring.
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El Cruithne esta otro arg Somnium.  Entre los tiktaalik hay arg  norg. The Dakini forked my Methanogen into a state of extropy. I  reach the Apogaea on the path of kaizen. Don’t tell me again about  the petaflop revolution. NO megamaser or swaraj. Freethought moppy  petaflop. Now now and then again we will meet in Mithraeum.
It was hoax but not evil.

In a dream I knew Isotelesis and the triz and the scrum. Late at  night around the fire we discussed spookey metaethics. never found  the secret Antikythera.

Next day now day one day we will go to the noosphere.
We will have childrem named Apsara, Gaggle, and qubit.

It is over. Dead. Death is a wonderful release. Let those molecules  go free! Name each: audaxviator, Jamais vu, Heyoka, parallax,  flummox.
But for now live in your hyperbolic wigwam. Live your brazen nezarb  lifestyle. Light the fire for us pyrolagnia bitch. Serve pristin  ecclesia druidic path. Take the sacrifice. Be venus unclothed. Be  the flecha and live in the house of leaves.
As night falls we go to droomoord to meet the enchanted katak.
The magic is before you here in Michaocan, Mexico. Purepecha shaman  still lives after generations in secret. The kinship was not  destroyed. Banjaxed. The Bhikkhuni hut is reserved for the next  half year.
Do it. Come here now and be close. Know true intimacy. boko-maru feet together. Put you in the calaboose.

There is more but none for now.

Never know what will happen day to day.  The van, aka van gogh, is still dead… I don’t know what to do.  Transmission is dead.

We talk at night over beers. People are all so strange in the way the see the world and the way they mix. Interesting minds.

Plants are going in the ground today. Gardens being prepared. No one day of such work seems so important, but it adds up over time. Seeing a baby walnut tree 8 inches tall makes a nice feeling in me.  Chilino tells me that there are more rare birds coming here now. I notice it too. I saw one I have never seen before while I was standing in a forest grove and trying to see the future of the space. Wondering where to plant trees. Wondering thinking imagining. I don’t have to do things perfectly, but I have to work all day every day in generally good directions.

Yesterday I painted in the studio while chatting with a nice muse…. not revolutionary work, but progress on some paintings which have taken a long time.I don’t know how to talk about the compositional relations I am playing with. I have no language to say it, but I guess it doesn’t matter. The painting will have its own life and it will be removed from mine.

Painting is the hardest and easiest thing. It is one of the few things I enjoy.

I wish I had some cheesecake. I would eat half a cheesecake and give you one piece. Maybe two if you really want it.

Nice little note in the mail:

Hi Brian
Saw your facebook photo album of some of your seattle paintings.  Thought I’d send you a picture of Holy Fire in case you’d like to add it.  I still love love love the painting!  People always compliment it when they come over.  I can still stare at it forever.
Hugs,
Anna

I wrote back:

I felt very happy when I was painting it and am very pleased with the composition. Now I am making some more complex things which interest me too… but the balance in Holy Fire is really what I like the most. There are many artistic adventures to have… but Holy Fire is what I would want to live with.

It is time to awaken the art monster!

I made a promise some years back to those who bought my art that I would keep painting.  I would continue to produce and develop my vision…. improving the value of the work they purchased as well.  Though mostly people buy my art simply because they enjoy it, I would like to make sure that their art investment grows over time.  I have not forgotten that promise to my clients and friends…. but I have not been painting enough to fulfill me or the promise.

The three years I lived alone here in the forest were hard…. I did not paint much… The other worlds were far away…    I still kept thinking and have sketchbooks with new designs. Recently as I have been painting I am finding that I can do some things which were difficult for me compositionally. Combining blobular with relation and symbol.

I have built the nice space to live in, I have food and cutie muses…  time to paint.

So painting is good. More painting. I have a backlog of thought. I will try to write about it, but I find it difficult to write about what I am doing compositionally.  Hmmm…. We shall see.

Trying to define places for camping, trails for horseback riding etc.

The gardens are producing lots of greens. We can have all the salad we want. Some of the greens are kinda spicy though. Arrugula. spinich, kale, mustard greens, a purple spicy green, a purple non-spicy green, cilantro, parsley, basil etc. Four of my collard greens plants are still alive. They get eaten by local pests, but if I can just get these ones to survive until they seed then I might be ok.
I have learned of several native plants growing in the forest which are good for salads as well.

We have been eating mushooms a lot. There are 4+ good kinds to eat here, though the favorite is oreja de raton since it is easier to clean than the trompas. I tried drying them and that works very well. I should be able to serve mushrooms all year round after I collect enough in the next rainy season.
I need to figure out what level of collection I can do without damaging reproduction.

Great news! My huge stone cistern is finally full! 67,000 liters of water. All the other water storage things are full too.
So for a couple weeks I have all the water I want. As the rains taper off, then we will have to go back into conservation mode. This year I will have 5 times more water than last year, though I will have more guests too.
I still need to build the sauna and more composting toilets.

The face totem pole is nearly done. Now we will have to figure out how to move it to a dryer place, seal it, paint it, build a base, and lift it in.Hmmm…

I had beer with locals in the tiny town several times which was enjoyable.

The dogs are mostly all ok.
Dizzy has some kinda tumor in her tits. The vet says to keep an eye on it and use a cream.
Goldie has been slowing down more and more over time. I was confused by it. She acts sad. So I took her in and the vet diagnosed that she is over 12 years old! The people who gave her to me said she was 3 or 4. The new heart medicine we put her on is having immediate positive effect.
It looks like I may give Hippie and Sebastian to some nice local guys. I will wait until after I can get them fixed.
A little more focus on dog training is improving dog behavior.

A wwoofer and I mapped the community center in Eronga. I gotta figure out some things to do there, though it is nearly impossible since I never go to town ecept to get the things I need to survive here.

A bunch of the adobes we made got rained on. Arg! What a waste.

Many more things going on, but I am too busy to write much.

More pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianfey

Things are going well.
Some recent challenges but they seem to be getting worked out.

I did some touring with the woofers of the lake area and that was ok. I live in such a cool place, I should explore more. I would love a week or two to just travel Michoacan. I have been here 3 years now with never a time free to just go and see places. There are jungles and caves and deserts and cities… so nearby.

Still not caught up on posting old photos. I am getting emails from folks from past festivals or shoots, which is always nice. I have known or met such amazing people. It is nice to hear what they are doing with their lives. Lives are like sculptures.
I heard from my dad, who I don’t talk to much. We don’t talk much since I misplaced my faith. It is a loss for both of us. I am so behind on emails people send, and those who make me think I often am slowest to respond to. His is pretty important to me. I now have 3872 messages in my draft folder which at one time I thought I should respond to. Dang.

All the dogs are fine. They are generally doing well, though one or other always has some injury or issue. It is so nice that they are past the puppy stage.
With the woofers around they have been getting more human attention.
Training needs to happen more. They are all trained not to be bad, but few are trained in any way to be good. And.. they are are times a mob .. a pack.. of dogs. They need some work.

The second kitchen is now cleaned up with good help of wwoofers and we can start making healthy food there. Food situation is improving. I am well fed. The ideal of eating locally grown food, preferably with much grown here, is doing better. I still need to build a root cellar. I am making a list of what is in season when so we can pig out in the ideal ways.

I feel often overwhelmed by all which need to get done,…. but I guess slow progress is just fine.

One guy is working on a wooden skull carving. It is going well. I want to make a mold with it. and make concrete skulls in time for the day of the dead.
Overall things are going well. The rains are falling well… and the collection system seems scaled well this year. I am catching much rain, unlike last year when I lost a lot.

Went today to go try to find locally made cheese in the closest village. The people who did make cheese don’t now. The lady who makes tortillas and bread was not found. Will try again.
I want to go visit the local best cheese guy and learn a little.
I bought his cheese recently and so far as I can tell it is the best cheese made in the state.
(thanks, Jen and others who recommended him!)
I would like to know how to make aged yummy cheese. Not a big priority… but making cheese would be cool. Maybe then I would get goats. More fencing needed first.

Gardens are going well.
I can’t tell what will happen since things are expanded much more from last year. I think I will have a massive surplus of large goards or squash.
I wish I could travel into the future 5 years and them come back and tell myself what I should be doing.