I am re-reading an excellent book on survival that I feel holds a lot of lessons for those in our community, and highly recommend it: Deep Survival by Lawrence Gonzales. It reinforces what Tom Brown told us in the class I was lucky enough to take when he was still teaching them himself: Its not what’s in your pack that makes the difference, or even what’s in your mind… its what’s in your heart.If this topic doesn't go here I hope we take it somewhere else. As one who was fortunate enough to have a childhood with zone 5 and mentors who impressed my good fortune, I note having a much easier time being with Zone 1 than others. It's just part of my personal culture. If you've done a class that long ago you've had a chance to recognize "another" in a crowd. Often at a permaculture study group I will inevitably find myself in side conversation about plant or animal minds and reference to a tracker school pop out. But not everyone can have true woods time. Resources are shrinking. We laugh at the bears in a local camping spot that used to be filled with trackers. They sound like old men in a city park. Telling the same stories and focusing on food and negative judgments. Hardly what one feels traveling with bear company out west in my youth. I live in an area built to max (and still building.) How to incorporate micro experiences, to allow "tuning" awareness, feels pressing. Many of the children I know are Autistic and it is built in. But even they need words and understanding to use their awareness.
I would like others thoughts on the topic, and if I am totally off-base please e-mail me privately and tell me to shut the hell up and I will passively read other’s ravings without comment.
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