[Scpg] Upcoming work and play weekend April 8, 9, 10 New Cuyama Santa Barbara

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Hello Friends,

I wanted to share with you that we are looking forward to seeing many new 
and familiar faces this coming weekend out here at the Cuyama Learning 
Center (April 8, 9, 10).  The desert here is in bloom with myriad 
wildflowers and a symphony of frogs and gathering birds.  Just yesterday we 
had a visit from a young Great Egret who graced us with perching on a 
one-leaf pinyon over-looking the pond for hours and hours.  I want to thank 
all of you who helped out over the last month while I was in New 
Zealand.  The journey there yielded many a story and a plethora of learning 
for myself and my daughter Ana, who traveled with me.   I taught and shared 
at the School Down Under (an international high school) and at a University 
in Nelson where social workers are trained.



I would love to share some of the stories this coming work and play 
weekend.  Come join us for a weekend of sharing our labors in building a 
place of vitality and community learning.  We will be potting more trees, 
laying irrigation, and prepping a small kitchen garden among other ranch 
tasks that need joyous labor edged with the sweat of our brows.    Please 
RSVP if you can make it out to CLC for the weekend or part of it.  I will 
forward the directions and gate codes when I here from you.



This past week Cyndi and I had the amazing fortune to spend two days with 
Ianto Evans from the Cob Cottage Company 
(<http://www.cobcottage.com/>www.cobcottage<http://www.cobcottage.com/>.com) 
who walked the Cuyama sands and the edge of our own radar for miles and 
miles.  Ianto is an applied ecologist, landscape architect and pioneer in 
earth structures especially with cob, with building experience on six 
continents. He has offered us very solid advice about the development of 
Cuyama and the way in which we walk our own beliefs in congruency, 
simplicity and beauty.  His life is one of moving in his truth and being in 
the light of his integrity.  Once again, CLC is benefiting from the elders.



I am grateful to all of you for holding the Cuyama Learning Center in your 
highest thoughts as we are navigating through the fullness of beginning 
such a grand and distilled project in these churning times.  May we all 
continue to dance in the web and re-member that we can bring life to flower 
everywhere we step and shine in our work, our tears and our praise.  I look 
forward to hearing from you.



In Springtime Gratitude,

Warren Brush

Wilderness Youth Project

Founding Director

<mailto:w at wyp.org>w at wyp<mailto:w at wyp.org>.org

805.886.7239