Today was a great day. The temperature hovered around 95. We saw the landscape go from brown-red to lime green and caravan conversation was meaningful and full of life. I was worried in the beginning that I would be joining the caravan after the bonds of friendship had already been made but I was grossly underestimating the character of my fellow caravanistas. The people who volunteered to take this arduous journey are amazing individuals with vastly different backgrounds and a common concern for humanity. I have learned volumes and have filled up sheets of things I must read/google/write/make/listen to when I get home. The cities we have visited since I joined them a few days ago have been friendly and understanding and the people filled with that familiar zeal. I love this. Every day several new reasons to visit Cuba are presented to me. It started off as a fact finding mission. It has turned into so much more.
Our event took place at William's house. Lisa spoke under the shade of his large solar panel. His solar panels are so effective that he gives electricity back to the grid and they pay him for it. Tomorrow I will check out his greenhouse and giant 2500 gallon water catchment system. Now I sit in the home of a fascinating woman who lived and raised a daughter in the backwoods for many, many years. Today she is retired and rescues llamas in the hills of Silver City. Tonight I hummed to her llamas and wooed them with my swan song. They kissed Janine, but Janine insists it was I who got them there.
Rinda's house is decorated with her sculptures, found skulls, feathers, minerals, dried corpses of behemoth beetles and skeletal cactii. It feels like home.
Outside under a sky holding onto a blizzard of stars you can hear chatty crickets and eager coyotes.
If it didn't get so damn hot here, I wouldn't leave.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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