Inspiring folk

Had the pleasure recently of meeting a young student from the US who was here to do a permaculture course and then came along to the Deep Ecology workshop that I organised up here. He had a great deal of shit together for the ripe old age of 18, and it was a real pleasure to chat about life, permaculture, deep ecology, spirituality, community service, green design, family... and choc tops with him. Here is the blog he made for his senior project (trip to Aus to do the permaculture course). His next stop is Taiwan to do an exchange program - effectively to do his final year of HS all over again in Taiwan. He already has his qualification but is choosing to go do that for the experience. How cool is that? Shout-outs Matt - you rock.

Another inspiring person I know is my friend Tryphena. She recently made a huge gorgeous stone sculpture for quite a large MN company (which is less hideous than many) and it has been shipped to their Singapore head office to be the Australian representative in their sculpture collection. She leaves next week for the unveling. She had been involved in some pretty amazing sculpural works in the past (designed the big arched entryway to Taronga Zoo, for example) but has had some pretty rough turf to cover these last few years and as a result hadn't been doing much of her own work. Yah to getting back into things, to being audaceous enough to put the submission in to start with, and for making a beautiful, thoughtful piece. She also does some pretty amazing portraiture work and person/occasion-specific sculptures /jewllery /furniture by commission if anyone is interested.