Subsistence Farming - Hawaii

we have been focused on building our main living structure. i am now calling it a cave on stilts based on the most common responses by people we describe it to. it is a cement barrel vault with cement columns and cement ring beam and cement slab.

interns and guests have taken our time lately. we also had a downed phone line for a week that made me crazy searching for that tiny break in the ridiculously undersized wires. i threatened cell phone more than once.

lauren is having a blast in taos. everyone who visits with her sends me an email saying the same thing. “wow, she is a self confident happy woman” and “she sure can’t sit still when she talks about her home schooling or high school”

i miss her too much.

just saw a documentary about andy goldsworthy called rivers and tides. so amazing. he has such reverence for nature. if we all had a small percentage of this reverence, the state of world affairs wouldn’t be giving us all nightmares.

my nephew’s recent visit with his tales of the continent and the rest of the world reconfirmed my distaste for anything mainstream (not including my new ipod and digital camera).