a picnic on the hill/mountainside of canyelles in barcelona. we packed a variety of things including buckwheat crepes (gallettes de sarrasin), and a umeboshi vinegar vinaigrette and little containers of leftovers.
Megsy (seen pictured) is a total inspiration and awesome dude, currently on her food activist and connoisseur world tour learning about permaculture communities and making the whole food, growing, preparation, eating thing as happy and direct and intergrated into life as possible. it was wonderful to spend a few days hanging out far away from our homelands. and it will be interesting and wonderful to see what will happen back at home.

a few months ago i was h'ordeuvre inspired and luckily when it happened it was also my friend sarah's birthday so i had the excuse to make some very small and delicious things. I used a beautiful organic sourdough from a local barcelona bakery to make small toasted squares and then topped with a sweet potato and oat cream pate, slices of raddish, freshly cracked walnut segments and a tiny spring of italian parsley. im going to look for more excuses to make things like this.

I went to an improvised dance performance the other night as part of LP'09 Dansa...O No festival in which the dancer was investigating her movement patterns and habits. Dancing and annotating her research and thoughts on a blackboard. It was interesting but the text heaviness of the performance was hard for me (it being in spanish). Afterwards I found a folded paper bird someone had made from a program and outside I threw and flew the bird, making my own movement research, experimenting with direction, speed, orientation and flying upsidedown, which proved the most interesting as spirals were often occurring and interesting soft flight from a spiral into peaceful sliding landing. I thought about Jonathon Livingston seagull.

travel is an ecological conundrum
(staying still also poses many questions, particularly in this idea of city living)