Tuesday, May 29, 2007

News from the farm


Here it is, a garden bursting with life (an organic one I might add). Today everything is actually bigger than in this pictures I took about a week ago. Tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, hot peppers, sweet peppers, herbs, fennel, lettuce, apricot, carrots and the BIGGEST zucchinis we have ever seen (all of us, really). In the picture you can see a normal size zucchini that you would find in the supermarket and our humongous zucchini next to it.

You can also see one of the chickens, today we got 6 eggs! yeiii

It is so gratifying to be in contact with the earth, to pick and eat the food you have grown, to use your body and your mind to take from the earth but also give something back to her.


It is also great to be able to live, eat and work together as a team, as a family (a Lotan family..). Right now there is 6 of us, Merav, Maya, Yael, Shachar, Sierra and myself. But there is always great people visiting for a day, or a few days, or joining us for a bonfire... It's all honey as Maya would say.


Tuesday, May 22, 2007

F cool things on the internet (for people with spare time)

There are two fantastic things you have to see on the internet (please do)

1. Nikal (courtesy of dialogos bizarros)
2. Virtual Bubble wrap (try the frantic mode)

Thursday, May 17, 2007

en cueros


Quien de ustedes se encuero para las fotos de Tunick?

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

living in a bus


Today, after hearing much about him and after seeing a small clip of what he and his wife have done I met Rael. These master carpenters made a bus into an awesome house. Photos , a small interview and house tour can be found on http://www.bestbus.co.il
the video is in Hebrew, but even if you don't understand I assure you you will enjoy it, the bus is great and he's just funny and welcoming.

He's planning to travel so the bus-house, namely The Imperia, is for sale.

Friday, May 11, 2007

today's quotes

Quotes I got from Mauricio today
Dichos que recibi de Mauricio hoy

If you have the money, you don't have the time; if you have the time, you don't have the money.

Las únicas personas normales son las que uno no conoce bien.

Las oportunidades se dan en el momento más inoportuno.

Don't take life so seriously...It's
not permanent.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Pharmacophilia


"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the Eyes of others only a Green thing that stands in the way. Some See Nature all Ridicule & Deformity, & by these I shall not regulate my proportions: & Some Scarce see Nature at all. But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers".


William Blake

Letter to Dr. Trusler (23 August 1799)


This quote appears in the Book Pharmacophilia or The Natural Paradise. Jonathan Ott, 1997.