2007 has Started
Already on the 3rd day of the new year - 2007!On the 29th I had my last coaching session and then cancelled my participation in the program. Now I have ...

A break - well, kind of
The last two days were somewhat different then the weks before. 4th of July - we worked only 1/2 a day outside. Continuing on the urbanite path on the West ...

Again - Almost (!) ready with output 3
We are in the middle of implementation and I have a hard time keeping up to provide prepared tasks, ready to go, for Daniel and Noah, our two helpers, nephews ...

Analysis & Design phase Journal of my project
Complain, Complain -  Meyer Lemons - and a lot moreMay 25th, 2007It's been a ffew days and much has happened. I have been reading through some of the material ...

At Huehue and working on web
The last few days we are busy working here at Huehuecottle ecovillage working on the GU web and systems. Sometimes it is a little overwhelming and jumping between the minute ...

Back from Residential Intensive
What a month - so much has happened that it is hard to put it all together in one post:First I was at The Farm in Tennessee from September 25th ...

Can't believe just a week has passed.
I am suprised that only a week has passed since the last entry here - I thought it was at least two weeks. Lots of work has been done, Even though ...

Career Review
This is the first output that needs to be completed. I have been working on it before the residential intensive and continued a few days ago. I have made notes ...

Career Review
Alright, I started working on my career review. Again, just started taking notes in a simple text file, which I will continue until I have a need for better and ...

Career Review - not too much!
It is over 2 weeks that I made an entry. A lot of things have been happening since then. I will try to summarize and give an overview. Mos of ...

Catching Up
I am slowly catching up with daily live after one month of absence, like emails, sorting my stuff, going through mail, paying bills, book keeping and finding my daily rhythm ...

Codex Alimentarius
Just saw a video on that subject and I am not sure if I am angry or sad or both! How anyone or any organisation dares to regulate how and ...

Continuing on Mindmaps for Survey
Wow - I got sidetracked. Finally I am getting to my IESD blogging. Yesterday was a quite productive day - I reviewed the mindmap I did las Sunday and then started on ...

Difficulties
The last few weeks I have been not feeling as happy and chipper then usually. Something has been and is still sitting on me a little bit. I am not ...

Done!
Last night I delivered Output 6, the Final Review. It was a lot of work and of course there is always room for so much more and improvements. Now I ...

Expectations and learning
JOURNALHave not worked on anything till today. This morning I sat down and wrote in my big journal pad all kinds of ideas in regards to the project for ...

Finally - continuing
This was a long break from the journal, whcih was caused by several reasons. To get implementation 2 off the ground was quite some effort, then Berta's newphes left ...

Finishing Career Review
Pretty close to have the career finished to the degree I want it. The text is all online, much of the portfolio too - althoug I want to add at this ...

First day of Implementation, part 1
Although this is posted on June 16th, it is the journal entry for June 5th. This was the first day we actually started visibly implementing what we have planned for ...

First Specialist Advising Session
Last Sunday I had my first Specialist advising session with Andy. It was quite informative and I was able to  ask m queany of my questions.I had to stop ...

Footpath completed! Oh brother!
The last few days we have been working hard - lifting heavy concrete pieces into place building the footpath that goes along the West Side of the house. It turned out ...

Full Steam ahead - Implementation!
June 2nd, 2007We are in full swing of implementation:Last Wednesday, just 3 days ago, we picked up Daniel and Noah form Spokane airport. First think we took them ...

Go - Stuck - Go - Fret
What a roller coast today. First thing in the morning I was looking for the plans for the deck and could not found them! I had made some notes during ...

IESD
This blog is meant to document my work on the Masters in Integrative EcoSocial Design offered by Gaia University and as such ment to be part of that work.

IESD Survey

Last Day of 2006
I have been not updating this blog for a while now. As the year draws to a close, I just wanted to say it has been an incredible ride and ...

Last Entry?
This might be the last post in this blog - just a notice that I am switching this blog to my portfolio in Moodle.

Medicine Wheel Weekend
The last weekend, from Thursday to Sunday, were 4 full days filled with workingn in the West. The West in this Inkan tradition is connected with the archetype of the ...

Millionaire Mind Intensive
Since a while I have been noticing that I am bumping up against various money issues - a love/hate relationship with money, business partners not following through with promises, difficulties ...

More Survey!
Yesterday I started what I hope is going to be my endspurt on the survey! It looks like the structure of the content is slowly getting clearer. One more page ...

More Work
Yesterday I had the plan to continue with the career review and things turned out quite differently. I ended up working the whole day on a website for a friend ...

New Approach!
Ha - I think I just had a small revalation in regards to the Outputs for the IESD. Looking at my survey-phase mindmap and having pretty much completd the first ...

OUTPUT 3 - getting close
I have been working on output 3 non-stop today for 16 hours and I am still not done. Shaktari's review of output 2 helped and also made it ...

Output 4 Reviewed, Working on Ouput 5
I am ecstatic! Andy's review of my output 3 gave me such wonderful poistive feedback. You know, I was a little concerned. Andy has such a wide and diverse ...

Output 5 almost ready!
I have output 5 basically ready, just want to go over it again - editing, grammar, word count and a few layout things.One thing I realized is how I can ...

Output 5 delivered, continuing implementation, Final Review start
Sometime towards the end of August, I think it was the 26th or 27th, I delivered output 5, which is implementation 2. This output was fairly easy to create for ...

Output 6 - Final Review
I am in the middle of the Final Review. It is getting a little bit tight, as I have still not completed the writing and want to add photos and ...

Porch Wall is Up
This last week the main things we worked on was the porch. Finally the wall of faswall blocks for the porch is up. These blocks are interesting to work with ...

Quite a while ago!
Indeed, it has been over two weeks since I last wrote in this Journal. I am planning form now on to be a little more consistent. With all the work ...

Resources
CDs DVDs Experts Books Thinking Mathematically by John Mason with Leone Burton & Kaye Stacey. Addison-Wesley 1997 Revised edition.This is the best book I ever ran across that teaches ...

Resume
Daniel and Noah were in Seattle visiting Berta's sister and family, which gave me time to catch up. I decided not to attend the shamanic class Berta was teaching ...

Some Loose Ends
Last week went by so fast - I can't remember what we did - well almost. I know we finished the new sidewalk - concrete and smooth, we continued with the garden ...

Spiral Dynamics
Following a post from Andy on the GU_info Yahoogroup in response to a question from Merton about the integrity of the diffeent Soiral Dynamic schools that have developed, I ...

Start of Implementation 2
Another week has passed and we got further ahead in implementing the front yard. Officially the first part of implementatoin is completed and the 2nd part has started. After finishing ...

Started laying urbanite
Yesterday we started laying the first pieces of broken up concrete - also called urbanite (I wonder why :-)). But this is not how the day started. First we had to finish ...

Starting
2006/09/15I guess this is the official start for me to work on the MSc IESD of the GU.I am excited and scared.I am wondering waht ...

Starting on Survey
Well, finally it looks like starting on the survey is happening soon. Actually it has already started a little bit. I have been thinking about it and started collecting material ...

Starting Out
2006/09/15This is the official start for me to work on the MSc IESD of the GU - I mean the Masters in Science in Integrative EcoSocial Design offered ...

Survey Challenge
A few days have passed, mostly working on Gaia University web things. Joomla is now installed on the production server and seems to function as well as on another domain ...

Survey Mindmap
After yesterdays work on a first try of SketchUp (a great drawing/drafting program)and creating a draft 3D map of our property, very inaccurate at this point, and mostly ...

Survey Output
Finally, yesterday. I got to spend quite some time on working on the survey output. This is going to take longer then I want - and made good progress but very ...

Surveying at Midnight
Well, not quite, but close. For some reason I woke up at around 1 AM today and did not fall asleep immediately, so I decided to work on my survey ...

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Vacation is over
Berta and I had a great vacation in Troncones Beach - a wonderful beach North of Zeuahataneu, except for the first days because I cought the "bug". I had a real ...

Weekend October 28/29 2006
This weekend brought  Masaru Emoto to Sandpoint. This is the second time - he was here about a year ago. In the afternoon there was an invocation, blessing for the lake ...

WikiHome
WELCOME For now this system will serve the following purposes: As hub for the activity, resource, play, collaboration, development, research  and information center for Gentle Harvest and Richard Kuhnel. Place ...

Wishful Thinking
Well, I had hoped to get started on the survey mindmap, but did not get to it. I started looking into literature that is available and applicable to my project ...

Work instead of Career Review
Yesterday I had the plan to work almost all day on the career review, except for fixing some issue on a client's website. Well, that took much, much longer ...

Working Hard
The last 3 days I have been working mostly on the survey output. Oh man - this takes so much time. I really need to change my approach for the next ...

Working Hard
The last few days we have been very busy, everyone in their own areas and also meeting, discussing, etc. - Andy, Liora, Val and myself. I have been trying to get ...

Working on Output 3, Analysis & Design
For the last few days I have been working as much on completing this output for the Analysis & design phase. One thing I am realizing is that soemof the work ...

Working on Output 4
Yesterday I started on putting the next output together - this is the first part of implementation. I got a slow start - partly because I was feeling pretty tired - my had ...