The Sitting Tree

As many of you (what a paradox that is) may know I am a student of Tom Brown Jr’s Tracker School, and I have learned a lot of amazing things there about nature, our role on this Earth and about our spirituality.

Well, Tom Brown III is Tom Brown Jr’s son, and head instructor at the Tracker School, and he recently put out a blog, and even though he is listed as a friend here I wanted to write an entry specifically to tell you guys about the blog. Why? Because well, after reading the second entry I realize how Grandfather’s wisdom is reaching out through so many very different channels. From the music of Joe Paulik to Tommy’s new blog to me expressing in real-time to friends, family and even strangers (in some cases) my continued astonishment at just how relevant Grandfather’s philosophies are to so many different things that have absolutely nothing to do with tracking, survival or awareness.

Definitely worth reading and bookmarking on your RSS reader:

4 Directions ~ 4 Elements

Check it out!

ps: Those two new blogs are still coming. I have a name for the dog community, and possibly for the tracking blog as well, which may end up being a blog about tracking, or a community like the dog one for tracking, or just for dirt time in general. I’m not sure at this point.

I now (as of yesterday) hold a plane ticket to St. Croix in late March. One of the instructors at the Tracker School is taking ten people in two separate groups on a six-day semi-survival adventure in the wilderness of St. Croix. I am going to be getting lost on an uninhabited part of a not-so-deserted island.

Why do they say getting stranded on a desert(ed) island anyway? How do they know the island was once inhabited? And most of these islands are in no way deserts but tropical paradises. Weird.

So far all I know is that the first three days will be spent on learning about the ecosystem of the island– The plant life, and, of course, the animal life. We will be making fish hooks and fish spears, and also going snorkeling. We will be camped somewhat close to the ocean. The final three days will be spent venturing further out into the wilderness, and doing some caretaking as well as honing our survival skills.

The reference to Lost above are due to my astonishment at their determination to get off the island. (also with Cast Away, etc.) I personally would love to be stranded on an uninhabited island and would never want to return to society.