Oregon Petrol-Free Community & Columbian poet & herbalist/healer

[originally intended only for 
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.politics.activism.carfreeecovillages
But it is now of interest to all of you, because of
the poet!]

I just updated 

http://carfreeuniverse.org/Members/colin/HaulOfJustice/

With Ethan's letter to carbusters. Does anyone here
have more information on his project? [a petrol-free
community (no cars, plastic or electricity) in Oregon]

Second, a Columbian poet/visionary has showed up on
one of my other lists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OurCultureOurCapitol/message/70

I think he found out about that list at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecovillage-belize/

I asked him for more of his writing and he pointed me
to:

http://ylangylang.coldecon.net.co 
 
en el link
10. escritos, lorenzo santamaría
http://ylangylang.coldecon.net.co/contenidolorenzo.htm


y en el link
el elixir del amor
http://ylangylang.coldecon.net.co/PAGINA%20WEBelelixirdelamor.htm

I have yet to carefully read through his message to
try to make sense of it (and to pay attention to the
sound) 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OurCultureOurCapitol/message/70

I have had time to notice that Lorenzo's vocabulary
and writing suggest impressive understanding of both
Spanish and English and of botany and the ecosystem.

It does sound like he's looking for visitors.

Given my "vow of stability" 
http://carfreeuniverse.org/Members/colin/vowOfStability/

It may be a while before I make it there. But many of
you... or it seems everybody and his brother is headed
to central or south america... (Costa Rica is coming
up quite a lot at least: http://puntamona.org/ ;
http://artofunion.org/ ).

Best wishes,
Colin


Here's what Lorenzo had to say about "Gobiernompal":

When I made the wild insertion, we arrived to a poor
people with 1000 inhabitants, whose church was
destroyed for the cutting of ten big centennial
erythrinas of its yard. The roots dissapeared and the
church went down. These persons abandoned this damned
land, until I ocuppied it, 40 years later... At the
"alcaldía" house, there was a name that meant municpal
government, in spanish gobierno municipal, and the
apocop of municipal is mpal., so, that instead of
writing local govern house (casa de gobierno
municpal), and instead of write gobierno municipal,
they wrote gobiernompal.
 
Así que llamé así a ese pueblo en nombre de todos los
pueblos

erythrina:
1. coral tree, erythrina -- (any of various shrubs or
shrubby trees of the genus Erythrina having trifoliate
leaves and racemes of scarlet to coral red flowers
and black seeds; cultivated as an ornamental)