Angel Speak

Designing for Human Habitation within the bounds and abundances of Nature

Notions of a Permanent Culture

Permanence:

Clean, renewable, regenerative.

Open, collaborative, integrative.

Abundant, cyclical, honoring.

Celebratory, connected, sacred.

Culture:

People, plants, animals, minerals, mysteries, galaxies

Stories, art, relationships, care

Biological, ecological, natural

Regenerative ideas, systems, technologies, lifestyles

Accept, breathe, design, evolve

At the Bullock's homestead, Orcas Island, Washington State

And, a beautiful summary from one of my Gaia U. associates, Palika Benton:

Unpacking my suitcase
Unpacking my head and heart? well have a look.

Stacking functions, planned redundancy, protracted and thoughtful observations, multiple uses, restorative, regenerative, carbon sinks, dynamic accumulators

Beneficial relationships, guilds, pollution is an unused resource, least change for greatest effect, succession of evolution, fast track food forest,

and mycelium running remediation, water…. slow it, sink it, spread it and the diversity in the edge! catch the rainwater, greywater house, plant the swale food forest

save seeds, habitat restoration, pato, pato, pato, native plantings and hardworking immigrant, broad scale carbon farming, devolve corporations and love

and in case i forget, trees produce rain water and soil and air, so if we need those things lets stop cutting down our trees.

permaculture principles, soil percolation, passive solar, heat sink, sun bowl, total ground cover, 5 to 1 support species to a heritage tree, nitrogen fixers,

dogbane, nettles, california redbud, pedicularis, belgian fence, trom wall, urine charge, ipm, planned disturbance, power of duck, biogas, prickly pear, soil

full cost accounting, closed loop systems, micro hydro, worm bins, thermal solar, don’t forget the spillway, keyline, recharge rate, salmonid restoration. salmonid restoration, bracts, fractals, branching

earthworks, functional analysis, energy recycling, fixed energy, finite resources, local focus, law of return, sectors, zones, planet water,

3% fresh water, 1% available, constructed wetlands, bio remediation, native knowledge, nature illiteracy, water illiteracy, agroforestry carbon farming

meander patterns, branching patterns, entelechy – evolutionary intelligence in selection, cracking patterns, core model, chaordic design

sectors, zones, pedestrian culture, form follows function, positive feedback loop, contour, off contour, soular power, diffuse flow, defined channel

rise over run, contour infiltration, in situ catchment, clay ions, invisible structures, justice ecology, knowledge is power, buckwheat, elder,

integrative eco social design, compost, cooperation not competition, mutualistic relations, nature is the master plan, relenquish power,

problem is the solution, energy yield surplus, yield of system is unlimited, bio mimicry, fibonacci, golden mean, seedballs,

teaching literacy – geological, water, energy, soil, food, plants, the human soul – that is what permaculture does.

perennial polyculture, restorative agroforestry, food, forage, fodder, fuel, fiber, farmaceuticals, fixers, refuge, forest village

native to this place, a heart that is self full, my childrens biological literacy and joy and security, the earth is one, we are one, destroy or heal, shyamas fear, bryans apathy, my guilt, still need love and affection, wounded deep, standing in my big self, living YES, cultivate hope.

compositional diversity, functional diversity, structural diversity, edge edge edge, pato, liebigs law – whatever necessary element is in shortest supply will be the determinant of success

sudden oak death, grey squirrel, woodpecker, pomo, chumash, intentional fire, disturbance adapted, natives first, proven exotics 2nd, unproven exotics with pato

yarrow, buckwheat, comfrey rhubarb, micro-macro
order 1, 2, 3, 4 rivers, class 1, 2, 3 waterways, generalized specialists, as above so below the soil,

pioneers, top level carnivores, top level trees, wetland habitat, evapo transpiration, cambian layer water pump, mulch basins.

gender, race, class, private property, materialism, gaia, corporate dismantle, the earth is our mother, 7 generations, mindfulness, conscious design, humility, integrity, searing honesty, non violent communiciation, loving the need

we are the ones we’ve been waiting for, walking in integrity the earth sings her song to me, i offer you, you offer me, standing like a tree with my roots dug down, strike like the rattlesnake, fight like the bear,
i am grateful, i am.

Palika

Be mindful, Eat local & pure, Consume less.

Slow down, Be Humble, Forgive, Breathe.