I might be able to do that. I’m in Southeastern VA at the moment. I would probably have at least one friend interested in goin too.
If we do get together I vote for September. I’m already taking too much time off work in the warmer months.
September is good for me just not on the 22nd as my cousin is getting married on that day.
Now ‘everyone’ can view my myspace pics.
Hi there,
Just a brief introduction. I’m more inclined to lurk than post as I don’t spend too much time on the net but thought I’d better say something about me anyway.
Given my chosen name it’s fair enough to assume that goats form a big part of my life. I know that goats mean domestication but I prefer to look upon our way of life as moving towards the ideal and as far as domesticated animals go - goats are certainly the most wild.
I live with my wife and two children (13 and 9) on 40 acres with around 25 goats and a big vegetable garden. We’re self-sufficient in meat and vegetables and dairy products. The meat comes from our goats, the odd chicken, and hunting.
We’re trying to rewild as much as possible but I guess, as is often the case, it tends more towards what is convenient than what is ideal. Still, with every year we are deconditioning ourselves more and more - so I guess that’s something.
We home-school both our children which really translates to them being pretty much free to do as they please.
Anyway, I’m sure I’ll gain a lot from reading this forum and hopefully will be able to contribute a bit as well over time.
Towards wildness,
GH.
I probably wouldn’t be able make it this year, but I’m fighting to keep my late summer/early fall open next year. ;D
Seneca Rocks, right?
‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ has usurped the #1 position, and ‘Slightly Mad’ has been replaced by ‘Stone Cold Crazy’ [here come the deputy]… all da same, Princes of the Universe remains #3. It’s the Highlander thing, although I thought the episode in which Duncan knocked out Connor with one punch was unrealistic, and the character Ritchie always got under my skin.
I think that sums me up. I am not a complex individual.
welcome, goatherd!
Hi, it’s my first time posting here. By way of introduction, I’m called Luke, I live out in SW New Hampshire (Abenaki called it Ashuelot). I’ve spent the last seven years in college and realize that I don’t know very much of what its important to know :-. I’ve been avidly reading the blogs that Urban Scout, Anthropik, and Ran Prieur post. I am looking at ways to gradually drop out of civilization and lead a life that I can be happy living. . . and become a wild human being again.
So, this is all by way of saying: Hi All, Nice to meet ya!
I’ve posted a few times on here before ever checking the About REWILD.info section (wherein this thread lies), anyhow, heys alls, I go by chiggles and a plethora of other names, some involving the one given me at birth (Chad [e.g. Chaddington Bear]), and many others not. Ooh, just now realized that Chaddington Bear, a recent name for me, is extra neat, for my name in German class was Urs (think Ursa Minor & Major). Anyhow, enough with all this extraneous information.
26 years of age, residing in Madison, Wisconsin. Ted (FROH [Free Range Organic Human]) and I have met in person, by coincidence, actually. My moneys comes from clinical research studies (aka labrat, guinea pig, what have you), which pay well, but one must have the wherewithal to reside in a building with stale air for days to weeks on end, no going outside (well, if so, only for a maximum of five minutes every few days). To me such a way of income (free time from lack of a real job) might appeal to many a primitivist, those who wish to have more time to themselves, and not bother with consistent employment and the BS that accompanies such. Lock oneself up for a winter study, make a few grand (a month or so would net a person around $6,000), then lounge about for a good number of months afterwards.
I enjoy booze, though I cut back after a $300 ticket going across the street to a mulberry tree with a beer in hand (at least the cop let me slam it [not really, but nonetheless I chugged it]). I really enjoy tripping (as in hallucinating), though, of course only of the legal varieties (salvia divinorum), not shrooms (unless someone claims to feed me edible ones, but they have psilocybe instead…). Oh, also got some love for parenthesis, if you had yet to notice. Spend my days in the park, try to learn things but that hardly happens (end up reading a bit instead, or just watching the clouds and/or birds). Sometimes I purposefully mispell words or write with poor grammar to piss off those spelling/pronunciation/grammar nazis out there; if they understand what a person means, who really cares if they say it properly?
I desire proficiency in e-primitive. So, the forum for practicing e-primitive, when is it going to be created?
Greetings rewilders,
I can lurk no more. . . I must reveal myself. Until now the cohesive goal for all the skills & stuff I like to chase down eluded me, other than the burning desire to completely understand the workings of the universe and get my hands dirty in it. I can’t pull myself away from this juicy stuff–I keep reading the posts & links. Have I found the secret door to where I can learn to make fire?
I fly my food freak flag (wild, paleo, native/indigenous, fermented–did I see a post about gundru?) in Portland, where I recently brewed a batch of yarrow beer which led to some strange and interesting dreams (thus the name). I’ve already encountered some of you in my adventures–Willem, I think I ran into you a while back at Ariadne Garden after a wild & fermented food workshop at the farm & had an interesting chat, and I spent a day hunting cattails and stalking bitterns with Kiliii (by a different name)–his brain tanned buckskin outfit and tree climbing skills impressed me.
In 36 years I’ve lived on both coasts and in between, and lucky me got a continuous view of the changing landscape from the back seat of dad’s car during our summer vacation cross country road trip moves. I picked Portland out myself, though. Apparently enough other weirdos live here to keep it interesting.
Can I fix my discontent with the ridiculous consumer ratrace lifestyle that consumes most Americans’ lives by creating something slower, more meaningful, life giving, connected to the ground? I try to measure what makes sense against what happens “in nature” and/or what has worked for humans over the millennia. So, I study shiatsu (the juncture between Chinese Medicine and Japanese folk massage), read like a maniac (Mutant Message from Down Under got me thinking about the deep validity of the hunter/gatherer way) and look out for chances to meet my tribe and learn more.
One more thing–e-prime rocks!( I tried–feel free to bust me)
Whoa, I dumped quite a load here. So, cheers all!
Jana
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Greetings from the cradle of civilisation (Anatolia / Turkey). Here the pain and armor of human being live as murky. Hope that it will come to grief in its cradle.
25 years have past since my birth. I became aware and try to lead peoples around me to became aware and sometimes walk with other awarers. But you know it lies down really hard beneath your foot. Willing to unite with loved-ones and friends, I try to heal myself, my fellow friends and my region.
Today I will go for a week-long trip. See you after returning time. ;)[sub][/sub]
Welcome Gnothi_Seauton, chiggles, yarrow dreamer, and Elfun K.!
Jana: you rocked the e-prime. I couldn’t find any “to be” verbs in your words. Nice work.
Holy shit! Look at all these “new” people. Welcome to the forums! Please feel free to throw your knowledge on the wiki too.
No way! I remember you Jana. You had the little feller with you, right? Small electronic universe.
One more thing--e-prime rocks!( I tried--feel free to bust me)
Release the e-primal scream! Looks good to me!
Oh, and to all the other newbies and e-prime lovers: Welcome, welcome!
Evening.
My parents named me Bill Maxwell, out here in Los Angeles CA. Currently, I unabashedly try to re-forge the native trade routes that ran up and down the West, this time with the mini-communities / eco-villages / cool folks that show interest in re-wilding.
I work with the native community here, create / tell animist stories, do the occasional workshops & public rituals, teach (sometimes) and strive to untangle this huge mess that civ’s got us in.
Ah…
And I’ve met Urban Scout. And Willem.
Internet junkies. ;D
Best
Bill Maxwell
tenthousandways.org
P.S. Willem, I will play you one day at full speed otter tag and I will win… oh yes… I will :-* 
Hi I’m Brian, 27 and living in Calgary, AB
I am new to the primitivism thing and glad for having stumbled onto this site
What brings me here is my search to find a way to escape being tied down to a job, and working all my life until i am too old to do anything. I also generally despise our current civilization for its obsession for material gain and love for all things disposable.
I dont have much experience with primitive skills but I am planning on taking a survival course at Karamat in July
“Deer Bill: Ewe otter try to beet me at otter tag” har har.
Hello/friedly gesture/hi/welcome/howdy/greetings/on on to all of you new faces I send these salutations.