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What an incredible growing and learning experience this has been!
I have felt so supported and held by the La'akea community and the greater puna community. this land is a place of synchroniticies, magic and raw life.

I have spent a couple of very charged and fun days with my friends from cascadia, Bleu and Xyoa who I had no idea would be on the island (we ran into each other at the ecstatic dance..!). I continue to meet people that know people I know and realize how much people on similar paths are drawn to one another, that tribal families are forming... how much I can trust in being loved for who I am, to see that my life is coming together just the way it needs to, feeling alive and inspired, surrounded by elders that are engaging, spontaneous, passionate and energized...

It is pouring, pouring, pouring. It's ten seconds till saturation rain. at least its 74 degrees F...

My brother comes tomorrow. He'll be flying into the near desert region, which receives 10-12 inches of annual rainful (literally less than 10 % of what we receive here... I've begun to think of this land of a home of sorts. perhaps a january february home...)


some tidbits of recent days...

I was supported in having my first chicken killing experience. It was good for me, to spend a few moments with the bird, a big, beautiful orange rooster, thank him. After catching him, I hung him upside down until he stopped panicking. He came to a peaceful state of abandon and died quickly. Then I plucked out his feathers, saved some of the soft down and long elaborate tails feathers. Gutted and cleaned him and made him into a soup with spices from the land: lemongrass, ginger, coconut milk, oranges...and peach palm, a starchy orange palm fruit with a hearty carotenoid flavor. Overall, it was the most involved I've been in the process of eating meat, and I felt thankful for the life given (although initially unwillingly), and that he had lived a totally free ranging life, foraging, eating delicious compost scraps, coconut and sprouted wheat berries. (At La'akea the 60+ poultry are fenced out of the vegetable gardens, rather than fencing them in a particular area...


I had a transcendent music experience, soaking in a jazz quartet last tuesday at an event they envision called Jazz dance freedom (similar intentions to the music and dance co-creation gatherings on the nut house lawn). I wrote a few notes afterwards... drums, elec.bass, plugged in classical guitar and trumpet, each with their own language of nuance and contour. intricate stories: chasable but not attainable, dreamable but not graspable, (capable and not culpable). Music of longing, of desire not ever satisfied, lingering into the thickening canopy of dusk-ing sky. It's a complex and dynamic improv, a sensual dance of sound: sound like sights, smells, like contact with skin, with wind, sunlight: this music evokes a dance of the mystery, of the great spirit....

Wonderful to have closeness and connection with a familiar friend, Bleu and her daughter who' s now 3 years old. We had some playful adventures at the seaview lawn, kahena beach (the site of weekly drum circles, where we drummed, danced, swam and I contributed some clarinet calls), a Hare Krishna community that has delicious pizza night every sunday. this time they had a theater performance about a krishna devotee maintaining purity of heart and intentions despite having the king of the demons as his father (in addition to the hare krishna (x2), krishna, krishna, hare hare, hare rama (x2), rama rama hare hare + dancing and exuberance)... also I visited the community where Bleu and Xyoa have been staying, where (co-incidentally?) my friend Morgan (the song circle seeder, currently of cascadia) will be co-stewarding. another beautiful land with beautiful people, this one on papaya farms road, a region on the lava covered old town of Kapoho, that has many homestead communities, including pangaia, evening rain, coco's... a place for me to visit more when I return (I'm currently thinking next winter for 1-2 months would be suberb, but... quien sabe?) ... it was a very seredipitious connection & I feel very grateful have gotten to spend time with them here, a bridging of lands, faraway homes...

(now its tomorrow), I moved out of La'akea in a bit of a whirlwind. now I sit at punatic cyber cafe... I've been working out the logistics of arranging to rent a car on gifted money, hitchhiking to the hilo airport to do so, then driving over to kona to pick up little bro. we'll be staying the first couple nights at spencer beach park in south kohala, just north of hapuna beach... then onwards clockwise around the island!
In just 2 weeks I will fly in a jet: to a one day stint on oahu, my birthplace, then return to cascadia on tuesday June 2nd.
blessings
I love you.
Jurmy