Photos up; Los Padres Walkers community listing created

Finally the photos from since February 11 or so are captioned and rotated!

San Diego - LA - Piru 2008-02-12 to 17

Hike to Quail Springs 2008-02-17 to 22

Quail Springs to Spirit Pine (Figueroa Mountain)

Figueroa Mtn to Sunburst to Refugio Beach State Park 2008-03-28

The main big news though is that I posted a listing on ic.org for a new community, "Los Padres Walkers":

http://directory.ic.org/22140/Los_Padres_Walkers
and I set up a google group as well:
http://groups.google.com/group/lpws

What remains is to announce it.

There's a lot more that could be written. Well, below I paste about the only writing I've done though, a letter to a member of the Sunburst community. The rest is in the captions for the photos.

I plan to announce Los Padres Walkers to:

• SoCal Indigenous Living & Origin Skills
• Dharma Hikers / Walking Sangha
• Derrick Jensen lists / primitive skills lists.

That's probably enough. Tentatively I'm planning to resupply and get back into the forest for another two weeks. This has been a ton of computer time though. Not sure I'll get to the announcing before I head to the forest again. And I wanted to send thank you notes / photos or at least emails to a few people now that the photos are taken care of. I may not be doing so many photos from now on.

Here's that email I wrote:

Heiko,

thank you for sharing your time with me and for being a teacher. For giving me _Grandfather_ [by Tom Brown], for sharing about Sunburst, for that time together on on the porch when you reminded me of divine intention.

Friday, I walked down Route 1 after morning meditation and walking the labrynth. It wasn't more than two hours to the adobe at Las Cruces. I went up to the hot springs, rested there a long while, got out, began to read _Grandfather_.

Later I followed the Trespass Trail--washed out (impassable), overgrown, but there is good water along the way, and I came out around 5pm along the coast. Now I'm at Refugio SP.

If you get a chance, please thank the rest of Sunburst for me for being so welcoming.

I was up on the hill that last afternoon, and came down again to help out a bit. I bet I'd like to help more people walk in the forest (or just sit still in the forest). And I realized you were walking in your forest, so I went to participate.

Thanks for giving me your email address!

Please have anyone looking for a walking (or forest-sitting) companion email or call me. We can sit at times and share mindfulness practices and just enjoy being out here together. It really is wonderful out here.

I think I saw three young condors this morning along the beach drying their wings or warming up--wings outstretched (imposing).

Thank you for the beautiful natural building you and Michelle helped make happen and for the permaculture ideas/awareness you shared.

I'm enjoying _Grandfather_--the clarity of purpose "to make things better for future generations by caretaking creation".

I enjoyed getting to read a bit of Paulson's (sp?) _Christ Consciousness_ and see a bit how your stories related to his.

It was wonderful to visit Alicia and Thomas and see their picture of Francia at Lemuria/Olgivy--and to meet Patty (sp?) and hear her words about living, working in community being a way to realize divine intent. And I value Barbara's sharing with me an essence of Sunburst's mission--the keyhole, with the practices or elements supporting progression to Christ Consciousness. (and Helge's showing me around
the ranch! And Francia's sharing about the farmer who knows Chumash rock art sites--)

It is great to see how your focus on growing and selling good organic food has led to such well-being for your community (I noticed at least some beautiful teeth--some or most communities I've been visiting have neglected dental care perhaps). And to meet people who have been growing organic food for years.

Heiko, I'm rambling--thanks for sharing with me--I feel that partly (it was divine intention that) I came to Sunburst to learn from you.

a breath and a smile,