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Full Moon of Winds
Warren Wolfe handed out a sheet at the Woolly retreat, a project development sheet that involves identifying a project or activity that compels us in some way. I missed his presentation since I left early for Hawai’i, so I have to fill it out now. The answer that keeps coming up for me is the permaculture work Kate and I plan here.
The whole notion of working with our land so that it grows healthier and we gain more foodstuffs from it attracts me, as I’ve said earlier. With Warren’s notion I can keep this work both before a group who can help me with my accountability and have a built in audience, too. I’m writing about it here to let those of who read this know. You can enter my circle of accountability, too, if you wish.
As the notion becomes clearer, I write here, on the Permaculture page, what exactly we intend to do for this year. I don’t know enough quite yet to put down objectives, but I imagine they will mostly be preparatory. There are projects from last year that will get finished anyhow like the firepit and converting most of the raised beds to vegetables. There are two that will get some work done on them this year, but will probably not finish: the grandkids playhouse in the woods and the root cellar. The Permaculture work is in addition to these already planned projects.
Still deep in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, trying to decide how to present a large collection of bronze vessels that can be daunting for first-time viewers. I’ve made a couple of decisions. We’ll start in the Neolithic ceramics, the 1st case in the ceramics gallery and move to the Bronze Age ceramic case before we head over to the Bronze gallery. This will place the development of bronze squarely in the material culture roots from which it sprang. It will also show the mutual interaction between bronze vessel design and ceramics. Bronze imitates ceramics at first, then, later ceramics imitate bronze.
The Shang and the Zhou get equal treatment in my mind so far, but I haven’t selected actual objects. The Shang kuei and hu, the Pillsbury owl (tsun), the ritual bell, the ting all seem likely to make the cut. But, we’ll see. Many more pages to read and objects to see.
