Nature Finds Its Balance
Learning from the Past with Veteran Actor Carel Struycken

Pasadena Weekly 8/7/08
Christopher Nyerges

Carel Struycken has long been interested in the principles of
permaculture, not only as it relates to growing fruits and vegetables
but also in the perspective it casts on most human activities.

"The more we are forced to abandon this system, the less we will learn, and the more aggressively we will fight to rebuild something like it. And the more we choose to abandon it, the more we will learn, and the less likely we will make the same mistakes." Ran Prieur

Okay! Added some more debris to the hut. I noticed how nice the gods are for making living things green and dead things brown. It's alot easier to find debris that way. Sorry if the photos are too dark. I took them just before I left. Sooner or later I'll be sleeping in this. So far it's taken about six hours to build. Hopefully, I be able to pick up the pace with practice.

Last night I did some more work on the debris hut. My wife and youngest went with me this time. I searched far and wide for loose bark on fallen trees. I developed a sense of thanks to the fallen trees for the offering of their bodies. I also realized that just because a tree may be "dead" it's still full of life - Beatles, termites, ants, spiders. Covered in moss and fungus. I noticed how I had become part of the decomposing process through separating the bark from the tree.

One of my plans this year is to learn more primitive skills. The reason I want to do this is because I beleive it will help me and my surrounding community if I know these things if disaster strikes. On April first, my friend Korey and I started to make a debris hut. Here are some pics taken the next day.