Welcome! New here myself and started slow, with the #introduceyourself still pending, so you’re my inspiration now I guess :)
Have a good start, and btw, ist this a shroom on the picture on the wall in the background? As Anthropology and Ethnobotany BA, waiting here to read some interesting stories soon. Upvoted and Followed!
Thank you! And funny you should ask about the image, is it a shroom? What you see is a guy in an Asian hat, but here is the rest of the image... wallah! He is admiring a cluster of shrooms! I follow you too.
This piece, as well as the portrait, is by Chris Lollar. Seems he changed his name again. https://www.facebook.com/chrismvolar/
Tnx for the info, will look up the fella :)
...although, no Facebook here :/
lol, nice coincidence! :D
I’ve spend almost two years in Wudang Shan in a Daoist monastery at the foot of the mountain and watched often the old priests walking the mountains, collecting their medicine... Good thing the past regimes could not exterminate all of them, as we have pretty much done in the West - so much natural wisdom lost... a shame.
It is a shame, truly. I spent 2 months in the Philippines many years. I learned quite a bit about their culture, although much... far too much, is Westernized. This documentary film ( http://www.ecoculturevillage.org/hedonic/write-up-on-bendum-in-the-heart-of-mindanao/ ) is why I was there.
Nice, congrats on the ecoculturevillage.org as well - may it grow and prosper! We need more projects like this. In Europe, there is a similar project called Eurotopia: http://eurotopia.de
You might want to check out or visit one day. The community is very active with hundreds of small places all over Europe.