PAST EXPERIENCE : FUTURE PROSPECTS

{Here is a typical outer-city street, looks like a rainy season.} 

Three times I went to Uganda, each time experiencing deeper and ever broader understanding of life there, and through this, life here in Canada as well. Any traveler can agree that the lessons learned on the dusty road are well beyond the walls of university and stamps of acclaim that may be found there. The travelers lessons are 'Life' lessons, the most important kind and, one could argue, the only kind in figuring out where one is going!

I count my time working on the grass roots projects in Africa as the last three years of my post-secondary education, culminating then in 6 years of study, and with nothing formal but a cinematographers certificate to show for it, and the college never even sent me that! 

But I am so much more now than what documentation might afford the inquisitor, this I have always been like, never paying mind to report cards and test scores. I have taken a path which is not accountable to scholastic enterprise and created my own school out of the vessel which I am! Self proclaimed I am a revolutionary, seeking constantly the Freedom which is our given right as born creatures of this earth, which is lost in so many twisted ways within the mind of humanity. I am also a journalist, documentarian, youth and adult counselor, permaculture designer, community activist, and last yet most potently i am a VOLUNTEER for the creation of Freedoms. 

As mentioned I went to Africa with the intention of helping reform the painful and deadly scenarios which far too many children suffer through there. It was Silas who came into my life and shined light upon his homeland situation for me, I saw the real potential we had as a team to do some rely good things, particularly with Music and Media. We had visioned down the road of building community centers, teen centers, social clubs, and villages, the latter of which have become my primary focus as I approach once more departure from Canada. Taking with me always the stones of wisdom I have found on previous trips, and looking forward ever so much to the Family which awaits me there. 

Out of all the trials towards creating a foundation for human freedom I found that the Greatest Enterprise is Already registered with the Earth upon its entry into living: and that enterprise is the COMPANY OF HUMANITY. 

The coalitions of people which are needed in times of great stress and burden are not in need of written documentation and contract, for truly undertaking the most primary of all life's missions requires merely acceptance. I am not saying that paper contracts and written documents are worthless as they have their place amidst modern sharing methods, but in dealing with the most crucial aspects of our future peace and freedom, no document can attest to the value of human companionship and real acceptance of the root of our problems. When one acquires the knowledge of what needs to be done to care for the earth, their dependance on current industrial-social structures fade away and they enter the "bush" outside the "walls" of industrial human society. 

"There in the wild they can do nothing but create a new society, be it sustainable, their mission is becoming accomplished with every successive generation forth coming, be it unsustainable a story of sorrow surely be written. "

My intent on designing and building a village, to anyone who has not taken the time to meander in such issues as child suffering in the developing world, comes as a majestic proposition, where as with me and many others in the field it is the most practical logical and honorable thing we could do with our lives.

 

Not only would a well designed village save countless numbers of orphans lives in the future years, but it can be one of the worlds most potent educational spaces and sanctuaries which can be shared by anyone who takes the trip over to live there for a time. It will truly be an exceptional experience for anyone who stays a while. Why? Well, because until you experience sustainable community life, you may never know it or understand it, surely there are pockets of community through out north america, yet which one can claim that their belongings are made in sustainable practice, that their food is not made to the detriment of future fertility of the earth and who's national policies destroy indigenous (sustainable until raped and murdered) cultures? These considerations are paramount in this age of decline as the rate of toxicity and genetic depletion are catastrophic, so too is the mass ignorance which have created these scenarios of course and it is upon our ethical moral intellectual concepts which the fate of our world rests, thus the most important topic of discussion. 

So with life and health in mind, a village the likes of which I have planed will actively provide the RIGHT kind of education for Humans that wish to Renew their currently ill-fated modes of living, and educate their youth in such a way which avoids future catastrophe and soothes current retardation of our living practices here. This education is rooted in 'reality' and 'earth', the natural realms which inhabit our every experience....

 And it has a lot to do with slowing down and relaxing! Imagine that!

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So, what i am trying to relay in this Entry is that my intentions and ideas for creating a village in East Africa are rooted in my past experiences there and also my entire life history. Having worked in community centers, I KNOW THEY WORK, and just as with any other experience the desires I build into the schematics of future projects each have their seeds sown in many past pastures of which we might call my Days. These experiences are the color pallet to the picture I am now creating, each memorable moment having brought its own hue and shade to my mind which finds now such a massive wealth of prosperity in the undertaking of such a task as to design and build a village, that I can not in any way dissolve my burning desire to do so. If I were to quit this task of building freedom for people, I would be theoretically dead and void of honor, for all this knowledge must be used to mean anything at all right!? 

Key also to my volcano of inspiration is having completed my permaculture design course. I am like a freshly trained pilot awaiting my first real take off, one which I have been trained since birth to do in this case of building a village and community out of fallow land, and homeless children! 

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Your Dreams Are Real, Weather you Think it or Not.

Aaron.