Living Stream Media

09/16/2025

PLAY, for adults!!

08/17/2024

So much gratitude to Jean-claude Catry Ingrid Bauer Wes Gietz and Wisdom of the Earth for a life time of passion and commitment to bringing these ways to our neck of the woods.

And to Max Wilbert for your words today that inspired me to search for just the right image.

“In wilderness survival, instructors talk about a triangle of survival. One side is skills, the other side is equipment, and the base is mindset. Mindset is the foundation upon which everything in life is built. This is why outdoor education influences everything else in a person’s life: because mindset is the fundamental skill, and mindset transfers to everything.

Life is hard. It is also sublimely beautiful. This is the wonderful, contradictory world these kids are growing up in — and spending time in nature is the best way to grow up.”

It’s a great piece, Nature is the Best Teacher. at Biocentric on Substack. You should check it out.

08/11/2024

From a comment on my recent Substack

Growing Our Hands Back

Had to share an excerpt from "Horace's Hands" by Barnaby Stone - Found in 'Playing for Time : making art as if the world mattered' a collective work by Lucy Neal (a definitive resource in communal craftworking - well well worth looking into)

"Our hands shape the intellect as they feel for the form of what we make. They sense the consistency of the mix, the weight and proportion of each ingredient. They handle, caress, stroke, fo**le, grasp, wipe, ply, manipulate, turn, paw, scratch, push, pull, tap, sweep, wield.

The artist comes with his or her own agenda, marrying a construct of materials to a certain reflection of the world. The relationship to the process is the same however. The skill of crafting is about understanding where things come from and where we are taking them. We have to be aware that our every action is made at the fulcrum of impending history. It is about adaptability in the face of difficulty and how that capacity to be responsive and flexible is, and always has been, part of the crafts person's art and the artists craft.
We nurture the future of things.

My hands are still now.
They are empty.
Nothing."

I can’t wait to get this book!

08/02/2024

We Are Growing Our Hands Back

A photo essay @ The Twining Trail. Link below.

Images Apple Star Photo. Beautiful spoons carved in a workshop by Dallas Wild
With deep gratitude to Firemaker Primitive Skills Society and Earthkin Wild

06/07/2024

We can’t wait!! There’s still a few spots left!!
Info and details at Earthkin Wild or EarthKin.ca

Gather with us under the solstice sun for a week of camping and practising earth-based ancestral and primitive skills.

Photo and video: Belinda White Apple Star Photo

01/18/2022

I am more grateful to Firemaker Gathering than I can express. Being able to witness, observe, and record through photography and film what happens in deeply connected community is one of my sweetest joys.

"​For 21 years, Firemaker has brought people together to learn, teach, practice and share earth based skills. When we gather at Firemaker we create an intentional village in which we honour and respect one another, the land we are staying on, and the community we build. Our ancestors knew how to live well without modern tools and materials. These ways are not yet lost.

In addition to rekindling the old ways, we embrace new approaches to living close to the earth which are in harmony with the old ways. With nature as our classroom, we sing, tell stories around the fire, play games, and learn from our passionate and skilled instructors. Days are filled with activities and workshops, while each evening different events are offered. Amid the grounding rhythm of village life there is plenty of time to connect with one another, and for solitude.

​Throughout the week, delicious and organic food is served, simple earth-based ceremonies are held, and friendships are created and renewed. Awareness on another level is sparked, inspiring us to use skills we’ve learned at Firemaker to live simpler, more sustainable lives. We sleep nestled between the trees, to the sound of the river, and we come to know a new rhythm.

Firemaker is an opportunity to connect – to your wild self, to friends waiting to be found, to nature… to our ancestors and the old ways, to a way of being that is not lost.

Welcome to our community!"

https://www.firemaker.org/

Apple Star Photo
Living Stream Media

07/26/2021

A sweet post of gratitude I wrote a few years ago singing the praises of Firemaker Primitive Skills Society and honouring my gifts...

Firemaker, Filling the Myth Gap, and The Importance of Story-telling I’m editing Firemaker photos finally. I’ve been asked to use some on the website. As I go through them, my heart si…

07/11/2021

Why learn traditional earth skills? I interview mentor Jean-claude Catry and the students of Wisdom of the Earth Adult Immersion program during a day of hide tanning. He describes how such skills awaken our body, mind, spirit, heart and connection.

www.wisdomoftheearth.ca

Film by Belinda White Living Stream Media

Why learn traditional earth skills? I interview mentor Jean-Claude Catry and the students of Wisdom of the Earth Adult Immersion program during a day of hid...

07/10/2021

There has never been a greater need...

Wisdom of the Earth's IMMERSION PROGRAM 2021/22 ~
Experience the Journey of a Lifetime!

A transformative 9 month Nature Connection Program to:

- Grow a deeper relationship with place, plants, animals, and birds
- Practice wilderness skills, like friction fire, tracking, wild fibre crafting, baskets, wild edibles/medicines, shelter building, hide tanning
- Immerse yourself in an intentional, creative mentoring culture that fosters a deep connection to self, nature and others
- Discover a sense of belonging and contribution in community
- Learn peacemaking practices and deepen relational skills
- Awaken and nourish your innate gifts and live a life of purpose!

Registration Now Open ~ Space Limited
To read more, and register online:
www.wisdomoftheearth.ca/immersion/

* We acknowledge that we live and work on traditional unceded Coast Salish territories. We extend our deep gratitude and appreciation for the opportunity to live, learn and play on this territory. Indigenous Students will automatically receive a scholarship, *independent* of need, in the spirit of reconciliation and reparation.

Wisdom of the Earth

An short, inspiring glimpse into Wisdom of the Earth's Adult Immersion Program, on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada. Wisdom of the Earth bases their programmi...

06/24/2021

“Raise a tent of shelter, though every thread is torn.” So much gratitude to the Trees!

Though Every Thread is Torn