having lived and experieinced community living during a year of volunteering in auroville,the life decisions that were enriched by this experience have been living inside me, since.
they stretch from a choice not to go back to employed accountancy work, to working with soil and practising city farming in punjab, and composting all kitchen peels,to experiments with healing through food,
and working more and more with own hands, learning new crafts, or simply a need to be self-sustainable. the belief in gift economy, introduction to which i soaked in the community of verite ( when olivier initiated the online alternative currency , auros' ), has only grown manifold , as living the experiment of gift/learning exchange within the safe horizons of a community like auroville whilst at one hand planted a seed somewhere inside, the water to this seed came in the form of the many interactions with the wider community outside auroville, friends , families of friends, and sometimes complete strangers.
i recently made this connection, with the gift of food, and have recorded these reflections in a blog : www.parshada.tumblr.com so, whilst travelling, with shammi, and learning, there is a need to meet the wave in the other, though learning exchanges, and with the aspiration to host :
a one day workshop on "cooking in awareness"
a one day workshop with combination of salve/balm making and hand made jewellery out of seeds and waste
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