YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL

Last night, while visiting Santa Terra, in Arizona, I noticed a sign: "YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL". The moon was full and the sign reminded me that each of us is sacred. Our problems only come when we suffer from amnesia from this fact. From this perspective all healing comes from remembering this fact. A man trained by an old one, by Tom Brown, Jr., spun a fire using a yucca spindle and sagauro fire board. It was my third experience with spinning of fire. The first was in an athropology class viewing a black and white film of a !Kung bushman spinning a fire. The second was while training during Tom Brown's classes. The third was last night when Danny and Patrick teamed to create the spark. Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart. Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor's sake. Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. ---Hannah Senesh
People drummed to the rising full moon and I danced with the stars and my friends, admiring the life force expressed by so many generations. So in the life beyond our politics "Eat, laugh. cry, sleep, dream, being wild, brave and friendly" to quote Martin Prechtel.

PITCHING A MONGOLIAN YURT IN HOLLAND

Click to see a thirty minute video of pitching a Mongolian yurt in the Netherlands:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=yurt-building-30%20minutes&hl=en&ned=us&tab=nv#

SMALL MOGOLIAN HUNTING GER/YURT

Click on to see Mongolian people taking down a small hunting ger/yurt. (And of course, many more links to yurts)

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=mongolian%20ger%20(yurt)&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#

THE BIGGEST GER/YURT IN THE WORLD

Click on to see a Mongolian Buddhist temple, the largest yurt in the world.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22biggest+Ger%22+&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

My Sixteen Foot Yurt

My sixteen foot in diameter yurt that I built in the Massachusetts Berkshires and wintered over in last year. It was warm and dry and a wonderful home to me in all weather. I've grown to love the wooden frame that holds the cover. I've grown to love the sky light in the roof that opens the space to the heavens. Some of my best moments over a life time have happened in this space.

Spirit Hollow Yurt

For Love of Yurts

The mongolian yurt is a "ger" or "home".

Windhorses from the South come to our home and share our lives.
Windhorses from the West come to our home and share our lives.
Windhorses from the North come to our home and share our lives.
Windhorses from the East come to our home and share our lives.
Windhorses from the Earth come to our home and share our lives.
Windhorses from the Sky come to our home and share our lives.

Visit trekearth.com for a beautiful image of a mongolian yurt:
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/Mongolia/photo182443.htm