First blog ever

Today in Olympia, Washington, the sun shone :>, but in Detroit the Seattle Seahawks lost :<. I spent most of my day listening to a talk on local geology and playing with the donkeys, llamas, and dogs. This is my very first blog entry, and I'm a bit of a Luddite - the accounts should get better with some practice!

I like thinking about what we could do here locally if we couldn't get things from China. We have farms, weavers, spinners, and there is even a shoe making school in Port Townsend. What can we trade? It's a naive bit of thinking, given the millions of people, but I very much like to relate on the village level. In a way, we have villages within the millions made up of the people we are able to come to know.

Music is a very nice way of achieving this. I have friends who play Old Time music. I am very happy to see that biodiesel is a going thing here. Now you can get biodiesel for home heating, very good. I should overcome my habit of nonsequitors! But it's late. Let's just see how this all goes. Best, Auriel Ragmon