One sacred inter-connected realm

At Buddha camp we couldn't look at each other.  Or speak, or read or write, or even for that matter eat after a certain time of day.  We just meditated, from 5 in the morning til 9 at night.  And in the evening watched lectures from a grainy vcr and old tv.

When I went back the second time it was as a volunteer, out of service, to cook for first time attendees.  That time I could speak, thankfully because the most important part for me turned out to be the community of consciously-minded attendees all back for their second or fifth or twelfth go-round.  It warmed my heart, does to think of them still.  To find people who really got my heart.

Now I am at Earth Camp, and the people here believe in the earth and communites and Nature as I do, all as one sacred inter-connected realm. It's such a joyful, fun atmosphere among these like spirits! Earth-worhsiping tree-huggers.  So many sacred smiles and light reverie.  I thought California was a place with minds and spirits like mine, that was before I came here:  I could never imagine such a similar-spirited tribe!  Men and women, old and young. Tonight we were led to recall the feeling in our heart of the moment we decided we would come here.

That was 2005, late fall, in the red and orange living room at Truslow Road.  I was desperate, certain I was on the wrong path.  On the stolen internet of one of my neighbors, I googled as I so often used to the words wild, and women, and wisdom.  That was when I found out about Earth Activist Training.

I've wanted to study with Starhawk ever since then.  Her books are pure muse to me.  And now here I am, finally.  Seven years, a full wisdom-cycle it took me, but that decision from back is finally coming true.  My next two weeks, here in the redwoods of Cazadero, Sonoma County,CA.  At EAT.  For my permaculture certification.  Camp for Wild Women at a Peace Institute run by Tibetan Buddhists.  And oh yes, for wild men, too.  Wild Men!  My path, it circles back time and again.

And already such a long inspired journey it's been...