The eighth exploring expedition... ran into a older gentleman, a dog names Jack, a young man names Eric and a kind lady who live in a community intentional, green housing project!!!

Dear readers,

Another breakfast of steel cut oatmeal with brown sugars, I was out of the door again today. I have to admit, I surely felt the miles of yesterday on my leg today. It was a very pleasant day with few clouds overhead occasionally block the sun to give shade to a traveler like me.

I met an old gentleman at the beginning of my expedition. He was sitting at a high point looking over to the construction site down below. Great, big, powerful machines are at work. They are in the mist of dirt to move it, form it and shape it. Those great big machine was meant to change the landscape around us to force progress. I turned to the old gentleman and said,"Those are surely some big strong machine." He smiled and replied, "They are. They are there to make things easier. We did not have those back then and it was a lot harder then to do what they are doing now." I replied, "I bet." The old gentleman told me he would come there in the same spot everyday to watch the progress and the great, big machine that was not at work in his prime. They are surely big machine with powerful metal arms and they are surely changing the landscapes around us.

Big, great, powerful machine with metal arm!

Then as I continue my expedition, I met a young gentleman names Eric and his dog, Jack. Jack was not happy to see me at the beginning as we met in the park but then he got used to my presence as I conversing with his owner. Eric only been in the area for about 3 months but he told me that he loves the neighborhood. He told me the neighborhood is very safe and peaceful. He even invited me into his house but I did have much left to do so I told him maybe an other time. I have his address and I surely will pay him a visit when I am at that area again. 

Opposite from where Eric and Jack live, there is stands a group of similar looking, new look and funny looking houses with the same style. Eric took me that they are very environmentally friendly house. The houses all have few solar panels, water barrels and vegetable gardens in the front. I was quite interested at the houses so I wandered myself into their backyards and realized that their backyards are all shared and it is such a beautiful scene. I know then and there that this must be some kind of intensional housing project. I asked a kind lady who was in the backyard about the houses. She told me that it is a housing project calls the NewBerry Place. All the neighborhoods (about 20 of them) share the interest in intensional community living style and environmentally cautious living styles. Every weeks, all neighbors will come together at the common room to share a meal together and the kind lady even invited me to one of them. I cannot wait to share a meal with all these people with great intension about living. 

Rainwater barrel

Shared back yard

Solar water heater

The notion of progress was on my mind quite a bit today. I am wondering maybe progress is not one of the things that a true human need to survive, but a progress is needed by humans for they want the fulfillment of their needs to be achieve easier. So the progress of human is really measured by how many needs humans are able to fulfill and how easy it is to be fulfilled. The fulfilling of wants which is embedded in our culture does not bring progress but regress for it take away time that can be use to fulfill our needs which is ultimate the measurement for progress. So, as a city, we need to understand this culture of getting what we wants and then refocus ourselves back to the culture fighting what we need.

Here is what I marked on my map today:

• 32 fire hydrants 
• 4 dumpsters
• 1 card board dumpster
• 6 Crabapple trees
• 16 Mulberry tree
• 12 American Hackberry trees
• 2 Gooseberry trees
• 1 path long of Wild Grapes
• 3 Canadian Buffalo berry tree
• 1 car with promotion/ advertising painted all over it for video station 104.5 (WSNX)
• 1 beautiful look out spot 
• 1 environmentally friend, community intensional living housing project
• 3 potentially sleeping spots

Here is some of what I saw today:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The decorated car!

Gooseberry tree

Gooseberry

 

From the look out!

Thanks for reading and your supports. 

I am grateful for all your supports. 

All the best

Patrick