I got a marvelous email about synchronicity from a good friend. That one will keep me going for a long time.
Being part of this whole community is very synchronicitous for me.
For 5 or 6 years, ever since I first read Ishmael, I’ve been yearning to level up my feral skills. And then one day, while googling Ishmael, I found Anthropik and learned about Peak Oil and how the civ that I’ve resented for so long is going to go down a lot sooner than I thought. And then I discovered that people were getting ready for it–people like the Urban Scout. And they were writing about it.
I got really inspired. I’d been reading Euell Gibbons at the same time and was thinking, “Huh, all Gibbons’s articles on plants are really just like blogs. I can do that.” Then I saw the little “wordpress” link at the bottom of everyones’ blogs and thought “And that’s how I can do it.”
Immediately, I got noticed by the people I’d been reading. Curt, Scout, Miranda and Ben at Aftermath–within the first week, I was being embraced by these people who had been doing this shit for quite some time–moreover, whom I had been admiring and aspiring towards for quite some time–even Penny Scout who can track a plant and break a heart in the same fell swoop. I kind of expected that I’d have to pay my dues in the rewilding world before earning any kind of acceptance, but the acceptance was immediate.
Not long after that, I get this email from Scout asking if I knew anything about wikis. I didn’t know shit, but it sounded like fun. And it is.
Now, I’m also hearing stirs of a primitive skills community right here in NW Arkansas. At best, when I moved here, I had hoped for someone to kayak or hike with. Now I might have someone to track and tribe with.
My world is growing, and it is growing wild.
