Trackers TEAMS Blog

Doing Stuff

8th

March

The first wilderness school I ever attended was a lot of lecture and fantastic information. I went home spinning over what skills to work on first. I kept spinning because talking at someone is a world of different from doing stuff. The second wilderness school I went to was lots of sound bites about community. Students were told they had to get past their grief over the state of world before they were truly ready to grasp these munificent teachings. Hippie stuff.* I was fooled twice and shame on…

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Of Permaculture and Plants, Of Spring

29th

January

What we do is powered by the seasons. How we live can be more than a pandering philosophy, it can follow the ebb and flow of life around us. Saying we value the seasonal rounds is different then truly getting our hands dirty in the Earth while planting a garden. It's not the same as harvesting to feed your family with stinging nettles. It…

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I'm wrong and so are you

11th

August

One of my favorite mottos is, "All models are wrong and some are useful". In my younger years as a student of wilderness schools, that attitude made me a bear for any teacher who asserted the infallibility of their learning model. Though the belief that trite philosophical hoops can fix all our woes permeates our culture, I take special umbrage…

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Remaking our world

8th

July

The kids camp for this week is called Welcome to Middle Earth for 4-10 year olds. Its pretty easy to guess what goes on there: a quest for the ring, donning elvin cloaks and fighting with swords. The actual results are what's really fantastic. In this camp,…

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Dignity

3rd

June

This is not meant to make critique an individual. This blog is meant as a call to action to better care for one another. I have changed the names to protect even the non-innocent. An email Trackers recently received... Hey, Do you do anything particular to help folks connect with their spiritual awareness and responsibilities in nature and…

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