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The truth and nothing but the truth:abbied
- i want to never settle for less that what i dream.
- i love newness, freshness, lack of things that are musty and taken for granted.
- people think i will never "settle down" and i joyfully think they are right
- i always desire more and more and more.
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March 9th 2010
If anyone would like to be involved in an amazing project going on this summer - your help would be appreciated! Raising awareness about our country, our largest river, our effect on the place where we live and are sustained. Watch this video to learn about the vision - - - ... read more
Back by Philadelphia
Published: March 9th 2010North America » United States » Pennsylvania » Montgomery County » Willow Grove
March 9th 2010
Been back visiting at my mom's for almost two weeks now. Ive gotten to catch up with a lot of old friends. The Gang From Highschool - played apples to apples and enjoyed it for the first time. and even won my first game. Married and Pregnant and Happy. Always good to reconnect. Old Timer Friend from Highschool and her just-turned-three son - Played games and chatted about life and what we had been learning doing the things we are doing. My Other Brother from Highschool - living in the city now and met up to see Les Miserables at our old highschool. Always comfortable. Lady Who Had Experienced Puru - Sunny day over the weekend and sat outside a local coffee shop and spoke of the world. The things that are happening and how everyones ... read more
Goodbye Michigan - - - Hello Pennsylvania
Published: February 22nd 2010North America » United States » Michigan » Saginaw
February 18th 2010
Catching a train to the east coast tomorrow. Train Facts via the Association of American Railroads: -Each freight train can move one ton of freight 453 miles on one single gallon of diesel fuel. -If 10% of long haul freight now moving buy truck moved by rail, annual greenhouse gas emissions would fall by more than 12 million tons. -American railroads move 40% of our nations freight but account for just 2.2% of all transportation related greenhouse gas emissions and just .6% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Been tryin to flow - yes - flow. wrote myself a little diddy: enjoy My name is Abbie and Im here to say Don't wait to live until your old and grey. Leave the things behind that hold you down So at the end of the day your ... read more
Natural Building and me
Published: January 27th 2010North America » United States » Michigan » Lake Orion
January 27th 2010
Writing to you again from the Strawbale Studio. As i write this i am sitting next to the Rocket Stove - Sitting on its pipe warmed bench. It is in the 20s outside, about 40 degrees in the room, and i am WARM in a sweatshirt and blanket sitting on this heated couch. The past few days i have worked on cobbing the outside of the rocket stove - playing in the mud, realizing how nice warm water feels on my hands, staring at the fire, and stacking and smooshing clay around. I am learning so many new things about natural building - It is starting to get more HANDS-ON here which is wonderful since i can learn so quickly that way. I am realizing how simple this type of design is - it isnt hard ... read more
January 13th 2010
i am in Michigan now. i spent the holidays with T's family in Saginaw and got to meet up with some old friends from Alaska/Vashon and hang out at the home. Not much going on but good times relaxing and going around the area finding beautiful things and places to explore. loved the library. got a big stack of books on topics ranging from: Old Photos of Tipis, Foodlore, Sherman Alexis' book FLIGHT, Maya Angelou, and kahlil gibran. Now i am back at the strawbale studio. http://strawbale.pbworks.com/ Today was a good day. Started with oats, lambsquarter, sunflower seeds and other morning pick me ups. Drank some tea harvested from the land. Sorted some wood for planned felting projects and organized the pelts. Bundled up for some outdoor adventuring. made some more tea to take with me ... read more
December 5th 2009
So we met up with Jon to go home with him the the Oregon Coast for thanksgiving. It was indescribable. ... read more
Vashon and back to Seattle and off to a farm
Published: December 5th 2009North America » United States » Washington
November 21st 2009
We went on a ferry from Lopez back to Seattle where we couch surfed at a guy i met when i came through seattle a few years ago. Then we headed to Vashon and got to stay with Adrian and Simon, my hobo friends from Alaska, and their baby girl OMI FINCH. so great to spend time with them. I worked on writing my essay to Berea and got to have great socializing at night. and Simons job doing outdoor maintenance and trail building seems like a dream. I also got to see my aunt Julie for a night and meet her husband. They took Travis and me out to dinner at the hardware store and then to a play called EL Diablo, which was great. Then we headed back in to Seattle to stay with ... read more
November 10th 2009
I left north Carolina on a bus and went to Nashville to see my friend Katie. Then I headed to Seattle and met up with Travis there. We got picked up and went to Nick and Melissa's house. All the guys in nick's bridal party were in one place for the first time and everyone enjoyed each other. We had a great time and the wedding was held out on Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula. It was sunny there, which is impossible for this time of the year in the NW. The weather was amazing - sun shining - and the ceremony was beautiful and close. I had never met any of them and felt so included and even my antisocial moments were included in a great time. After the wedding we got to spend ... read more
October 23rd 2009
Our friends Sam and Shamba had moved from the valley near the camp and up into the mountains a little ways and told me i might be able to come out there and help out on the farm. So i went out there. done. And lived in an A-frame with a room attached and loved it. the Love shack it was named. And sam and shamba where in their tipi down the road and the family in between was wonderful. Travis came out there and stayed with me during one of his two week breaks from work in the fall. I started a list which i hope to make into a huge speadsheet of all the uses of plants, medicinal and culinary. its exciting to use and watch them work. Travis hurt his ankle one of ... read more
October 5th 2009
The guys and i headed from PA to Detroit to stay with one of Joshs good friends. We went to a diner in the morning and heard about what detoit is now. We saw what Detroit is now. Its empty. Done. but things are starting low down. things are building. Then we stopped in Kalamazoo to get a beer at Bells before dropping Travis off with Liz. And we headed on. We stayed with a friend in Chicago at her community house. They were hosting a college party that night and after feeling old we found out place in the basement. The next day we drove, stopping only in Des Moines (thanks to technology telling us where Jimmy Johns is. We arrived in Omaha and quickly got involved in the 21 Days of Building project in ... read more
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