Day 2

We stuck close to home today, helping out in the community garden and adding a bit of assistance to the Fab Tree Hab Community Center.  We started growing it back in 0-40 and it seems to be finally be reaching maturation!  We're finally at the stage of weaving in the protective vines and filling in the gaps with soil and fast growing plants.  On south-facing walls, windows made of soy-based plastics would absorb warmth in the winter; ground-floor windows on the shady side could draw in cool breezes during hot months. Water collected on the roof would flow through the house for use by people and plants; waste water will be purified in an outdoor pond with bacteria, fish, and plants that consume organic waste.  Here's a picture of the finished product:

(I snapped this from the poster ...it's not quite done yet.  This is how it will look though!) It is so fun to be involved in projects where humans are only in control of the basic design - where nature does the rest.


After working on the center, we attended a rendition of King Lear at the Amphitheater.  Ever since the local high school began centering their curriculum around the performing arts we have been treated to beautiful, creative, performances of Shakespeare, Beckett, and , of course, pieces written, composed, and choreographed by the students themselves.  These are the real treats!  Last Spring, they did a  dramatization of the Great Transition of 0-12.  Though there has to be a sense of suspended disbelief around the issues of race, politics, and especially Gaia, the play was very moving in its depiction of the rebels - how hard it must have been to have been so right but everyday be faced with the same deficient worldview!  I love the amphitheater too just from the perspective of history.  It was apparently built using recycled parts of automobiles!  All the metal melted down to form the vast structure of the stage; old headlights powered with photovolts provide the lighting; and all the rows and rows of seating made with old tires covered by adobe.  It is a sight to behold!   


It is time now for bed. What a day...