At some point over the winter, someone from TCNJ Magazine interviewed me about living at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. (TCNJ was the college that I attended).
Here’s the article: Alumnus finds fulfillment living in a sustainable community
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Today is the first day that I’ve truly felt that spring is arriving. Ok, well, the second day, but this one feels much more promising. Last weekend, on a 70+ degree day, we could see flock after flock of Canadian and snow geese flying north. A week or so earlier, the red-winged blackbirds, the first birds of spring returned.
It’s been cold this past week after that unusually warm weekend, so those couple days of warm weather were more of a tease than anything. Today felt pretty good, with a temperature somewhere in the 40s, but the energy was different. It really felt like spring was officially creeping up on us. People were out and about and working. Liat here started digging a trench for her schoolbus-turned-house, and I lent a hand for a while. Kids were running amok and playing outside. Green grass shoots are popping up out of the ground. And Skyhouse visitors and a guest recently showed up, a very sure sign that it’s almost that time again.
I anticipate this spring season. I am excited about being able to spend more time outside. Spring will have definitely arrived when the ratio of time spent outdoors to indoors is greater.
This week, I plan to start the next DRTV video. I should have started sooner than I am, but the idea behind this latest vignette is to highlight individuals’ plans for the upcoming season, how they have been preparing, how they’ve been keeping busy throughout winter, etc. Hopefully this video will shed light on the how life here is much more in sync with the seasons than elsewhere.
