Saturday, March 12, 2011

our house, is a very very very fine house

Working for a french woman. ..
"Ze bauttles, ze bauttles!" Haha, I love hearing her say that as wek insert wine bottles as we build the wall of her house. We are learning to build a house! Out of all reused or natural materials. We wake up, open the greenhouse, eat some museli, and home made bread, and then, then we step our feet into some cold clay. We stomp the clay much like wine makers stomp their grapes. We prepare it, aka stir it with our feet, into a yogurt like texture. Then we mix it with some hay. Voila, we have wall building material. Its beautifucl, natural, simple, annnd good for your skin! I love it. I feel like learning how to build a house is an important skill, and I plan to build my own one day. To add natural light, we put wine bottles into the wall, the final result is gorgeous. After a siesta and more work, our evenings have been filled with yummy dinners con verduras from the greenhouse, pass a doodles, knitting, and some good old fashioned wine with relaxation. One evening we visited this womans property for a chacra healing. Her name was anna, she was an older woman with beautiful tanned skin and all white linnen clothes. She giuided us to a small wooden hexagon shaped room where dylan, christal, and I all lie down on soft mattress pads on the floor. We closed our eyes and she began. The chacra healing involved the use of many sounds, from many instruments (harp,flute, singing bowls, her hypnotic voice, a rain stick, drums) to create vibrations from the sound to massage to heal the body. It was mighty relaxing, and all of us experienced crazy out of body experiences. I enjoyed it very much.
> Yesterday we participated in the "minga". This is a communtity work day, organized at the full moon, that takes place every other friday. All the members of the hippie communtiy meet at the designated persons house and help them with their building. It was fun to be a part of it. It was a very happy and relaxed atmosphere.
> El bolson, and the mallin ahbogado have won me over. Friends, family, you may have to move down here so we can all build houses together and live happily ever after
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