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my rewilding class is so different from all my other classes all my other classes try to make us "collaborate", but it’s such a joke. it’s a veneer of collaboration in a fundamentally individual, competitive system the garden class… we’re actually creating something together
we’re rewilding the space for generations to come, people we’ll never meet, and kids and tribes people we will meet we’re working together to mulch, to plant, to remove weeds, to build structures, to map, to organise
there’s a sense of participating in something real. not merely advancing a personal skillset, but… doing the thing. being part of something. we skipped the school and employment-to-survive part of life straight into humans-existing-together phase
it’s a little, small way, 2–4 hours a day, once or twice a week, such a little tiny context, where there’s somehow there’s this indescribable quality of "enough". a sense of a village. a sense of shared survival, stakes, and existence
i keep coming back to that word, a sense of enough very little, we’re digging with shovels and pick axes, no power tools, but enough somehow, when i return to the glass walled offices in Palo Alto, there is a Lot but not Enough