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I'm a quiet, gentle, creative guy who just likes to be free and needs personal space. I am respectful and tidy, and I don't even want to use your bathroom.
This may sound unrealistic, kind of crazy and self defeating, but I can't help being who I am. Here it is: I don't like money. I don't like "making" it, and I don't like having to deal with it. I don't want a cell, a job, a car, bills, nor all of the luxuries that define modern life for most Americans. Fortunately I'm finally getting to the point where I'm ok with the fact that most people do want that sort of thing, so I can finally move beyond the "angry hippie" modality and into a more loving and understanding consciousness.
I have no desire to leach off of others, so I try to avoid couch-surfing as a general rule, although I did stay with various friends during the super cold nights this past winter. I'm not the sort of guy who asks people for money, squats in abandonesd houses with f*ed up druggies, messes up bathrooms, flys signs, etc., although you may see me digging around in the dumpster at times (tidily). This is not the sort of life I desire, and my aim at this point is to trade work for my daily needs. I have been working at local farms and gardens, and I am beginning a worktrade at Yoga Yoga, where I have been learning to practice Kundalini and Hatha yoga. I have a good range of knowledge concerning herbal and natural healing, frugal living, safe "freegan" practices. I have worked the past two summers on an organic farm in on the western slope in Colorado, and I may be going on a farm and community tour this summer. I am not certain. There is a possibility that I will be granted a scholarship
I used to keep a very tidy camp in the barton creek greenbeltI, until the cops smashed my tent up and poured paint (mine) all over my belongings during the bi-yearly sweeps this past december. I had been camping there off and on since mid 2007 when the beautifully swolen creek prompted me to quit my job at thundercloud and move out of my apartment. Lately I've been sleeping in parks, on rooftops, in fields and under buildings on rainy nights. I'm hoping to trade some work for a used tent and a place to put it soon. (The greenbelt is out of the question for me now. It can get pretty creepy by myself down there at times, and I was once chased through the woods without a light by some creep on a very dark night last year).
I gave up drinking in January, and I do not want to be around alcohol/alcoholics. Pot is ok, but I am not a frequent smoker.
If you know anyone who may be down to trade work either for a tent or for a place to camp, please let me know
Thanks!
Peace&Love
Lom
This may sound unrealistic, kind of crazy and self defeating, but I can't help being who I am. Here it is: I don't like money. I don't like "making" it, and I don't like having to deal with it. I don't want a cell, a job, a car, bills, nor all of the luxuries that define modern life for most Americans. Fortunately I'm finally getting to the point where I'm ok with the fact that most people do want that sort of thing, so I can finally move beyond the "angry hippie" modality and into a more loving and understanding consciousness.
I have no desire to leach off of others, so I try to avoid couch-surfing as a general rule, although I did stay with various friends during the super cold nights this past winter. I'm not the sort of guy who asks people for money, squats in abandonesd houses with f*ed up druggies, messes up bathrooms, flys signs, etc., although you may see me digging around in the dumpster at times (tidily). This is not the sort of life I desire, and my aim at this point is to trade work for my daily needs. I have been working at local farms and gardens, and I am beginning a worktrade at Yoga Yoga, where I have been learning to practice Kundalini and Hatha yoga. I have a good range of knowledge concerning herbal and natural healing, frugal living, safe "freegan" practices. I have worked the past two summers on an organic farm in on the western slope in Colorado, and I may be going on a farm and community tour this summer. I am not certain. There is a possibility that I will be granted a scholarship
I used to keep a very tidy camp in the barton creek greenbeltI, until the cops smashed my tent up and poured paint (mine) all over my belongings during the bi-yearly sweeps this past december. I had been camping there off and on since mid 2007 when the beautifully swolen creek prompted me to quit my job at thundercloud and move out of my apartment. Lately I've been sleeping in parks, on rooftops, in fields and under buildings on rainy nights. I'm hoping to trade some work for a used tent and a place to put it soon. (The greenbelt is out of the question for me now. It can get pretty creepy by myself down there at times, and I was once chased through the woods without a light by some creep on a very dark night last year).
I gave up drinking in January, and I do not want to be around alcohol/alcoholics. Pot is ok, but I am not a frequent smoker.
If you know anyone who may be down to trade work either for a tent or for a place to camp, please let me know
Thanks!
Peace&Love
Lom
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Re: Friendly hippie kid seeking a quiet backyard to camp in (no use of facilities or electric desired) ?worktrade?
Wed, April 15, 2009 - 2:13 PMcorrection:
...There is a possibility that I will be granted a scholarship...
to attend the next kundalini yoga teacher training course that starts later this summer, so I may end up staying in Austin for another year or so -
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Re: Friendly hippie kid seeking a quiet backyard to camp in (no use of facilities or electric desired) ?worktrade?
Fri, April 17, 2009 - 5:38 PMWow, I really wish you the best of luck.
I've had really, really intense experiences with kundalini-esque meditation.
Basically, *the* only reason I believe there may be life after death.
P.S.
Bewa-a-a-are the Northside!.. it's where the Ronnie RayGun apologists live.
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Re: Friendly hippie kid seeking a quiet backyard to camp in (no use of facilities or electric desired) ?worktrade?
Fri, April 17, 2009 - 5:50 PMexcept I don't. My place is in a hip barrio on the south side, about 4 miles from 6th. -
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Re: Friendly hippie kid seeking a quiet backyard to camp in (no use of facilities or electric desired) ?worktrade?
Sat, April 18, 2009 - 11:49 AMWho cares about where *you* live?
You can always move....instead of complaining endlessly about it.
.....lazy.
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Re: Friendly hippie kid seeking a quiet backyard to camp in (no use of facilities or electric desired) ?worktrade?
Sat, April 18, 2009 - 1:09 PMWho complained? I'm a Ronnie Raygun celebrant - I don't apologize for him because he was one outstanding Prez, and I don't live in NE austin.
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Re: Friendly hippie kid seeking a quiet backyard to camp in (no use of facilities or electric desired) ?worktrade?
Sat, April 18, 2009 - 2:07 PMThanks for sharing but I'm not sure anyone cares whether you are an apologist
or celebrant or anything else, and even less where you live.
And *NE* Austin?
What in God's name are you babbling on about?
Are you having a Regan-esque 'I Can't Remember Where I'm At' Moment?
We're talking about the Northside in this thread 'He-who-cannot-be-named'....
so please, do your best to keep up.
:P
OP...how are you doing?
What's up?
Have you changed your plans or found a place yet?
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Re: Friendly hippie kid seeking a quiet backyard to camp in (no use of facilities or electric desired) ?worktrade?
Fri, May 8, 2009 - 9:27 PMDUDE
Go to Hawaii and join the cult of polyamory and work their farm -
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Re: Friendly hippie kid seeking a quiet backyard to camp in (no use of facilities or electric desired) ?worktrade?
Sat, May 9, 2009 - 2:16 AMWhere is this Cult of Polyamorous Hawaiians you speak so fondly of?
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Unsu...
Re: Friendly hippie kid seeking a quiet backyard to camp in (no use of facilities or electric desired) ?worktrade?
Thu, July 2, 2009 - 6:32 AMI pondered the young man's request and decided not to invite him to camp in my quiet and lovely tree shaded backyard. There's a city ordinance against living in backyard tents. The charming summer ritual of kids camping in a pup tent in the backyard, telling ghost stories and making smores over a little fire pit is excepted. Of course, by 3 am the little shits will be tired of sleeping on the ground and will come back into the house in any event.
But I certainly don't mind him continuing to camp along the greenbelt. If the cops are hassling him, he needs to find a more discrete camp site. PM me and I can direct you to some that the cops leave alone.