Living House

[glenn kangiser]

I like your answer Epiphany.  You nailed it pretty good.  My second grade school teacher clued me in on what the government was up to.  Is Bourgeoisie a second grade word?  We had 3 grades in one room.  She could have been Hitler herself but was a good teacher.  If she was still alive I'd love to go back there and wrap her over the fingers with a wooden ruler.  

You're right  The whole establishment ---- including suits - I don't really dislike the people in the suits -- it's just what the suits represent - people trying to project a different picture of themselves than what they really are - ie: Someone who under those clothes is naked just like the rest of us- puts their pants on one leg at a time ---- but when that suit goes on they become the lawyer - the politician - the big business man - the tax man -the president  - most of whom I feel I have to watch out for.  Sure -there are always exceptions but in general I trust a guy in a set of blue jeans more.

I guess that's why the hot springs on the east side of the Sierras are so relaxing --  lots of people there from all walks of life with nothing to hide.

Back on the topic, Mike Oehler said the house should be a living growing thing.  That is exactly what this place is - not always plants although they are very much a part of it.  The house itself grows out of the earth - history such as bridge timbers -boat docks - trees from this and other property in the area -things inspired by other buildings - other methods - other places - claystone, rock , quartz, mud, whatever I can work into it in a pleasing to me manner.  That's what I like about this place - whatever it is - I with the help of my wife made it.

BTW, I'm still a virgin-- not only did I not inhale, Mary Jane has never even kissed my lips.  Drank a few gallons of whiskey etc. in my younger days though.

[Amanda_931]

Oh, wow.

They've even got a link to Mike Oehler's Hippie Survival Guide to Y2k

It got lots of good reviews back in 1999.  And is not absolutely dirt cheap as a used book even now.

[rita]

this discussion reminds me of a trilogy of books i read when i was a kid...Below the Root, And All Between, Until the Celebration...the author made up this world where people lived in the trees...very much a living house.  Anybody read it?

[glenn kangiser]

I haven't read that set.  Here's a link Until The Celebration

The last one I remember reading in school was    Lord of The Flies.  Somehow it doesn't fit this topic-   maybe more of a current events book.    

[glenn kangiser]

Come to think of it-- I even smuggled 151 Rum and Canadian beer across the border from Chilliwack, BC, Canada to here under the seat of my Volkswagen when I was 17.  Had to try 2 border crossings because they caught me at the first one and wouldn't let me in --- second one (Lynden?) asked me what I did with the stuff - told them I sold it -- was I lucky they didn't look under the seat or what?  Can they still get me for that?? :-/

[John Raabe]

Mike Oehler sent me a copy of the "Hippy Survival Guide to Y2K" (for "laughs" as he said). It might mean that he has copies available from Mole Publishing. It's a good read.

I've also enjoyed "One Mexican Sunday", another of Mike's lesser known books. He's a very nice Hippy, and a good writer and genuine human being. That's probably why I like his books.

Yep, just checked, Mole Publishing - http://www.farmersmarketonline.com/UnderGroundHousing.htm - they have both of these books. And the money goes to the deserving guy living in the underground hole. (No, not Glenn  :-/)

Note to Glenn about the stuff under the seat... They send you to Cuba these days! But I think you only get a one-way ticket.

[glenn kangiser]

I've always wanted to go to Cuba, just because they tell me it's off limits.  I just don't want to go to the Gitmo torture chambers on the American side. :-/

[bartholomew]

Glenn, Cuba is well worth a visit. Well, the beach resorts are just like any other, but the rest of the country is great. Since you know Spanish, no problem for you. I've heard a lot of Americans make the trip out of Canada or Mexico. When you get there, just ask their customs/immigration staff not to stamp your passport.

Oh yeah, they've got good rum there, but if you get caught trying to bring some of it back in your luggage... well that would be a dead giveaway... back to Cuba you would go.

[glenn kangiser]

Sounds like that would work, Bart - I'm not hot on resorts etc.  When I go to different places I like to get out off the beaten path - see the sights --and meet the locals.  

I guess I'd just have to try the Rum while I was there- then leave it. :-/

I wonder if that was a Cuban cigar Clinton had?

[Sassy]

If I created something unique and interesting it would be just my luck to have 500 hippies in my front yard protesting the manipulation of a helpless tree.  

Hmmm...  I think I recall dancing around in one of those circles in my younger days at Yosemite Park...

Sassy

[glenn kangiser]

I'm surprised you could remember it. :-/

[Daddymem]

I'm surprised you could remember it. :-/

DUCK!

[glenn kangiser]

Sitting next to her here, I can tell you that she is trying to think of someway to write something in a manner that is not to defamatory. :-/  I already have my response ready to anything she writes.

[Sassy]

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."     Carl Jung

[glenn-k]

I wasn't ready for that. :-/

[Amanda_931]

HA!!