AUTUMN 2009 BIOREGIONAL CAMPOUT

POSTED ON BEHALF OF TED NORRIS

Dear BioRegionalists,

It is time for us to focus on what we know in our hearts must happen if we are to live and thrive together upon our little Earth. And though it will take individual effort, it will seem and in fact be easier to the extent that we see ourselves as a team and as co-creators in our own lives. There are numerous ways to go from here. We will focus on four directions during the week-end: Consciousness/Spirituality, Food and Water Security, Community Building, and Energy. See the attachment for more information about each.

The 5th Direction is PARTY:
So let’s celebrate !! Gratitude and celebration are among the strongest consciousness-raising generators that exist. My Birthday occurs during this Campout weekend. I invite all Bioregionalists and Libras, and people who love, respect and/or like Libras and/or Bioregionalists to join us Saturday evening, for a special potluck supper and Birthday and Hill Country celebration. And celebration takes place throughout the weekend!

Where: Mary DeWitt’s house in Creedmore (just south of Austin). See directions below.

What to bring:
Beginning Friday evening, each Breakfast, Dinner and Supper (Texas traditional names for the three meals – kinda Bioregional info, huh ??)) will be potluck, so bring food to share for each. We will likely spend most of our time away from the main house, so count on no electricity and would be good to bring some drinking water. Remember, this will be close enough to drive back and forth, so you don’t have to camp. There will be covered places for you to throw a bedroll, palette, or cot if you don’t want to set up a tent but want to stay out at Mary’s. You might enjoy having a hat, acoustic musical instruments, maybe a small table or two from a couple of you, a chair (We should have some folding chairs.), maybe ice chests and some of you may want to bring a self-contained cooker. (Jenny is in Colorado so her solar cooker won’t likely make it.) We will likely have a small fire, so anyone having an appropriate grill might bring it.

Times and subjects

On Friday at 3:00 PM, the Austin-Natural Meet-Up group will gather. This was formerly called the Permaculture and Transition Meet-Up group. Click on the following URL to find more info. http://www.meetup.com/austin-natural/calendar/10882780/
Assuming no rain, but probably even if raining we will be working to prepare the site until meeting time for this group. You’re invited to self-select to come around 10ish AM to help out. Thoughts of directions and nature of the Meet-up group will be discussed starting at 3:00 PM.
Ad Lib – time at individual’s choice– Continue area preparation and/or select your campsite for weekend.
Pot Luck Supper – 6:00ish
Appropriate Fire Circle to follow
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– Saturday
Consciousness and Spirituality
– 7:30 Am – Yoga or stretch
– 8:00 Pot Luck Breakfast
– 9:30 Opening Circle
– 9:45ish Guided Meditation – Eva Barnett
– 10:00 Consciousness and Spirituality Dialogue
– Gregory Klein – Earth-Based Spirituality – Texas Hill Country Emphasis
– Sonora Lee, Joaquin and Marty Hancock – – Prem Rawat –Peace and Earth
Community Emphasis
– Michael Wolf – entrepreneurial Kabbalistic approach to Consciousness/Spirituality
– Group Discussion – especially as related to Grassroo
11:45 Pot Luck Dinner (Lunch)
1:45 –Projects
Gardening project
Plant Identification walks
Break-out groups
3: 00 Reports from Projects
4:00 Energy – Transition Initiative
– various members from the Transition Hub Team Explain the Transition Initiative
Relevance to Grassroots Movement
– Tom Davis
– Howie Ritchie
– Group Discussion
5:45 Pot Luck Supper
7:00 Fire Circle – Libra Celebration
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Sunday –
7:30 Yoga or stretch
8:00 Pot Luck Breakfast
9:30 Food-Growing Initiatives – as a catalyst to community building
Cudjoe Exah Now here in Austin from his home in Sofa Village, Ghana
Activist – His experience in Community in which students from local schools together with neighbors together planting perennial food crops in Xofa EcoVillage.
10:15 Kathy McWhorter in her East Side Austin Community Gardens, Jardin Alegre and Festival Beach Community Gardens.
11:00 Gregory Klein – in his vision for Local Living Centers(LLC’s), the first to be located in Fiesta Beach Community Gardens
11:45 Discussion
12:00 Pot Luck Dinner (Lunch)
1:30 Clean-Up
1:45 Closing circle

The address below is where the party is and the weekend events happen. There is no charge. Donations are accepted. Please do not bring dogs. We provide their presence on site.

This event is sponsored by the Colorado River Watershed Bioregional Congress. Please spread the word, and e-mail thehealthclass@yahoo.com – or call Ted @ 512-476-1607 or cell 576-3018 for more details.

Peace, Love, and Health,
Ted
PS Please contact Ted about helping with preparation Thursday and/or Friday.
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Mary DeWitts (just South of Austin)
12551 Glass Road
Creedmoor, TX 78610

Directions:
Go South on I35 from Austin.
Take FM 1327 exit to Creedmoor, be careful you have to veer left to avoid the the toll road.
Turn right onto FM 1625, it will veer left and turn into Old Lockhart road.
Turn right onto Glass Road (near the “Mustang Mesa” mobile home development).
It is the 3rd place on the left, (also the last place on Glass Road).